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Welcome to the St Giles’ Centre

The St Giles’ Centre is situated in the heart of Wrexham in North East Wales within the grounds of the impressive St Giles’ Parish Church, which looks out across the town and surrounding area.

Established in January 2012 and core funded by the Wrexham (Parochial) Educational Foundation, the St Giles’ Centre works with and supports learners and teachers in the Wrexham County Borough. Our specialisms include religious education (religion, values and ethics) and its parent disciplines, as well as related areas.

We value connecting creatively and actively with the needs and complexities of our local place, and this provides the focus for all our activities. We recognise, though, that our initiatives here in Wrexham are also of relevance to others across Wales and beyond. So, we hope that many people and organisations visit this site to learn about what we are doing and to benefit from our activities too.

The St Giles’ Centre aims to:

• provide subject specialist advisory support to teachers and schools in Wrexham through the local authority;
• create and make available high quality free resources and guidance to support teaching and learning in religious education (religion, values and ethics) and statutory collective worship in Wrexham;
• develop professional learning courses and supporting resources for religious education (religion, values and ethics) and related areas in Wrexham;
• identify and initiate relevant research projects and publications which help to inform and develop our activities;
• enable the voices of teachers and learners in Wrexham to be heard at local and national levels;
• ensure that Wrexham is up to date with the most recent significant developments impacting on religious education (religion, values and ethics) and related areas.

We appreciate our long-standing close relationship with Wrexham County Borough Council and our more recent relationship with Bishop Grosseteste University, Lincoln, which are helping us to achieve our aims.