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The National Network organises quarterly Zoom gatherings of all SSM officers and advisers.

Forthcoming meetings (all 1930-2100 on Zoom):

May 2025 – date to be announced.
Thurs 25 Sept 2025

See the ‘Notes and Documents’ section below for notes of previous events and event recordings, plus a summary of the seminar and Eucharist held at Southwark Cathedral to celebrate the 60^th anniversary of the first ordination of SSMs on 9 September 2023.

Once a year Network meetings are opened up to all SSMs – the most recent open meeting was held on 22 May 2024, focused on advice we would give to our former SSM selves (see Notes of past meetings below).

These Zoom gatherings build on two national conferences organised by and for SSM officers, in Shallowford in 2017 and the conference ‘Beyond Boundaries’ held in February 2019 at Merton College, Oxford, with Sarah Mullally, Bishop of London, as keynote speaker.

Network meetings have taken place regularly since the spring of 2020 and have generated a range of useful discussions and shared materials around best practice: SSM working agreements (see Resources page), clergy transitions, SSM curacies, the position of SSMs in vacancies, mentoring, ministry during the pandemic, SSM research, and the contribution SSMs can make to the next decade of the Church of England.