Workplace Chaplaincy Sunday 2026

Following their successful and inaugural Workplace Chaplaincy Sunday in 2025, WorkCare West Midlands are organising a similar event this year, to be held on Sunday 4th October.

Some places of worship only showed the video https://youtu.be/tkA6CUBB5ZU whilst others focused the entire service on the workplace environment and the challenges Christians have. Their website includes some ideas as to how you could run your service incorporating the video, HERE.

Purpose of Workplace Chaplaincy Sunday

For congregations to understand what a Workplace Chaplain does and why the role is so important.

Jesus was the first Workplace Chaplain when he went out amongst the fishermen and tax collectors.

We hope that this will give an opportunity for churches nationally to pray for Workplace Chaplains generally and any Workplace Chaplains within your church.

Our hope is that more businesses will want Workplace Chaplains in their midst as part of their staff’s pastoral support and that members of your church community will consider whether being a Chaplain is something they will actively explore for themselves.

We will be grateful if you could support this initiative and whatever way you feel would be most appropriate for your congregation.

Set out below are key question and answers about this event (answered by WorkCare West Midlands:

Is this a one-off event? If not, how will it be sustained and what do you hope to achieve with it?

It will be an annual event held on the first Sunday in October and our main hope is to achieve a greater understanding amongst Christians of the increasing value of Chaplaincy and how it is ‘Jesus at the coalface’

From the feedback of this event, this will refine our approach to it for subsequent years. For instance, there is a view that there should be a Faith at Work Sunday and a generic Chaplaincy Sunday rather than limiting this to Workplace Chaplaincy.

What is the aim of this event?

The aims are multiple:

• Raising the profile of Chaplaincy and the front line support it offers to employees facing various life issues.
• Encouraging others to do a ‘taster session’ to see if it is for them and then hopefully encouraging more people to be trained as Chaplains in the workplace
• Encouraging businesses to consider using a Chaplain as part of their pastoral care offering – there are bound to be business decision-makers within the congregations of most churches
• Giving existing Chaplains more support within their church community

Are any other chaplaincies involved?

Our aim is to involve as many other chaplaincy organisations as we can. Please spread the word and send the website link to your contacts. Although WorkCare West Midlands has initiated this, our hope and prayer is that other organisations will help to move this forward.

Are you considering multifaith involvement?

We have informed other faith groups about this event. Our Chaplains are available to all staff regardless of their faith background: to support the spiritual wellbeing of everyone within the workplace.  We encourage other faith groups to actively support Chaplaincy in the workplace and to put forward members of their particular place of worship as potential Chaplains.

For further information please visit our website: https://workcarewm.org.uk/workplace-sunday/