St Andrew’s enjoys a wonderful location in Rugby’s town centre. Called to be ‘at the heart of things’, we seek not just to serve our community and respond to its needs, but to learn from it in all its growing diversity.

St Andrew’s is the town’s oldest building and is treasured by people of all faiths and none. A ‘seven-day church’, the building is open daily for worship and its café, run by volunteers and students from a local Special School, is a popular meeting place. A wide range of church and community groups – creative writing, gospel fellowship, book club, parents and toddlers, Repair Café, Sustainable Saturday market, Green Christian Forum (among many) – meet in the building, which is the focal point of our close involvement in Rugby’s regular festivals and civic events.

The Eucharist is central to our worship: we value the ordered shape of the liturgy as a place to explore God’s call to grow in faith, hope and love. Children and young people are at the heart of our church life, as we learn more of the ways in which Godly Play and Muddy Church enable people of all ages to flourish spiritually. Our strong choral and musical tradition serves our worship and bears fruit in our Community Choir, Junior Choir and weekly lunchtime concert series. The collaborative partnership of laity and clergy – in both cases paid and voluntary – shapes and enables all aspects of our mission and ministry.

Being one of the first parishes in the country to receive an Eco-Church Gold Award, we are on a journey to a fully sustainable relationship with creation. This is focussed in the newly-developed church garden which, as well as being a popular place of peace and rest, is also a model of good ecological practice.

St Andrew’s is a key member of ‘Rugby Revive’, a vibrant ecumenical grouping of churches across Rugby that eats, prays and serves together in a range of initiatives including a food bank, Street Pastors and a day centre for the homeless.