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• Art, Imagination and Public Service

  Art, Imagination and Public Service explored questions by bringing public servants into conversation with visual artists, poets and musicians.

• 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?

• Embracing Global Challenges

  Embracing Global Challenges explored ways in which humanity can respond creatively and courageously to our unfolding story.

• Truth

  In the world of public service, trustworthiness, dependability, wise decision-making and solid relationships all depend upon truth.

• Democracy

  What is the future of Parliamentary Democracy? What are its roots? What keeps it healthy?

• Integrity

  What does it mean for a public servant to have integrity? Is it the same as being consistent?

• 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.

• 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.

• In Power

  It is neither superheroes nor automata but human beings who pace the corridors of Westminster and Whitehall, often feeling anything but powerful.

• Stand and be counted

  Stand and Be Counted offered lectures and symposia for all those concerned with the health of Politics.

• Feeding The Soul

  Public office can weary the most resilient of souls and the first thing to go can be a sense of humanity.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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”.

• The Queen attends The Commonwealth Day Service

  Her Majesty The Queen attended The Commonwealth Service: A Celebration of the Commonwealth at Westminster Abbey on Monday 11th March 2019.

• Sir Mark Rylance returns to Westminster Abbey

  Sir Mark Rylance will return to Westminster Abbey with a company of actors bringing the words of William Shakespeare to life for six special performances in April.

• Lord Heywood remembered

  A service of thanksgiving for the life and work of Jeremy, Lord Heywood of Whitehall GCB CVO, at Westminster Abbey on Thursday 20th June 2019.

• Abbey Celebrates Coronation Anniversary

  Her Majesty The Queen and HRH The Duke of Edinburgh attended Westminster Abbey on Tuesday 4th June 2013 for A Service to Celebrate the 60th Anniversary of the Coronation of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II.

• Consecration of Bishops at Westminster Abbey

  The Venerable Karen Gorham, Archdeacon of Buckingham, was ordained and consecrated Bishop of Sherborne in the Diocese of Salisbury; and the Reverend Canon Michael Harrison, Director of Ministry and Mission in the Diocese of Leicester, was ordained and consecrated Bishop of Dunwich in the Diocese of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich at a Eucharist at Westminster Abbey on the Feast of St Matthias the Apostle, Wednesday 24th February 2016.

• Service for the New Parliament at St Margaret's Church

  A Service for the New Parliament was held at St Margaret’s Church, Westminster Abbey, on Tuesday 8th June 2010.