Cambridgeshire Planting Collective is an event for those considering their involvement in planting evangelical churches in the Cambridgeshire area. It happens every couple of years in November.

On Saturday 15th November 2025 we will be holding our next Collective.

We hope that you are able to join us to catch a vision for

  • church planting in the area
  • revitalisation of existing churches
  • praying for and sending people to plant churches

It will take place at St Andrew the Great Church, St Andrew's Street, Cambridge, CB2 3AX. The doors will open at 9:40am for a 10:00am start, and the event will close at 12:30pm.

We will be hearing from Richard Coekin about the lessons he learned in church planting in South London through the Co-Mission network, as well as hearing about local plants and praying together.

The event is run by members of the Cambridgeshire Gospel Partnership churches and costs £5 for the morning, but is free for those from member churches.

It would help us if you are able to let us know in advance if you can join us. Click here to sign up or to join the mailing list.

A sinner saved by God's grace, Richard Coekin is married to Sian, a beautiful Welsh GP, and blessed with five children, three grandchildren and a permanently moulting dog.

Richard was for 29 years the Senior Pastor of Dundonald Church in South London, which grew from 35 adults and a few children through various stages to become a larger church of 800+ adults and 350 kids with nine church plants. God also used Richard to help develop the Co-Mission church-planting network of 30+ churches in London and to launch a variety of gospel ministries (including 9:38, London Men's Convention, a Parliamentary Bible Study) and some books (e.g. Gospel DNA, Our Father, Ephesians for You and The Reluctant Evangelist).

Richard is now Director of Reach Ministries UK, which seeks to encourage church leaders in effective gospel ministries through consultancy, mentoring, training and conferences.