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The Institute
Westminster Abbey Institute works with the public service institutions around Parliament Square to revitalise moral and spiritual values in public life.
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Public programmes
See a complete list of current Institute programmes.
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Past Institute lectures
Videos and podcasts of past public programmes of Westminster Abbey Institute are available.
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Hope
The capacity to hope is common to human experience, and often confounds easy answers.
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Justice
Justice is a characteristic of a civilised society. Where is it to be found? In structures of government; institutions; individuals? Is it the same as fairness?
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Truth
In the world of public service, trustworthiness, dependability, wise decision-making and solid relationships all depend upon truth.
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Democracy
What is the future of Parliamentary Democracy? What are its roots? What keeps it healthy?
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Integrity
What does it mean for a public servant to have integrity? Is it the same as being consistent?
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In the Public Eye
The media make people and events public. Love it or loathe it, people in public life have to live with it.
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Staying Power
Staying Power offered seminars, dialogues and lectures to the Abbey's neighbours on Parliament Square as a rich and nourishing resource for the public life.
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In Power
It is neither superheroes nor automata but human beings who pace the corridors of Westminster and Whitehall, often feeling anything but powerful.
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Stand and be counted
Stand and Be Counted offered lectures and symposia for all those concerned with the health of Politics.
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Feeding The Soul
Public office can weary the most resilient of souls and the first thing to go can be a sense of humanity.
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Truth in the Public Square
Lecture given by Claire Foster-Gilbert, Westminster Abbey Institute, at the 2015 conference of the Newbigin House of Studies Trinity Hall, Cambridge, 15th July 2015.
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Charles Gore Memorial Lectures
As a memorial to Charles Gore, a fund for a series of lectures was established. Since 1935 a lecture has been held almost every year.
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One People Oration
The One People Oration is an annual lecture intended to make people “think not only of all Christian people but of all mankind”.
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St Margaret’s Choristers
Find out about the St Margaret's Choristers and how you can join.
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Frances, Countess of Hertford
Frances, Countess of Hertford was buried in St Benedict's chapel and has a large wall monument there executed by the Southwark School of tomb makers.
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Margaret Douglas, Countess of Lennox
Margaret Douglas, Countess of Lennox, was buried, at the expense of Elizabeth I, in the south aisle of Henry VII's chapel in Westminster Abbey.
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A Reflection on thanks
Friday, 24th April 2020
Each morning at round about the same time, I stand at the top of a staircase looking out of my temporary home onto the streets of Westminster.