St Peter's Church and Chaplaincy houses a friendly, open and inclusive ecumenical community within easy walking-distance of both universities and RNCM. The Chaplaincy is unique, because it has five different chaplains to help students from many different backgrounds, with two Anglican chaplains, a Free Church chaplain who covers all other denominations, an International chaplain, who cares for many overseas students, and a Taiwanese chaplain to Taiwanese students. All are fantastically friendly and completely unshockable! and this unshockability is in itself one of the huge attractions of St Peter's Church and Chaplaincy.
The Chaplaincy also offers students the opportunity to meet at other times during the week, with a range of different social events, ranging from the student-run Keep It Simple Service on a Sunday night to soup on Wednesday lunchtimes. The chaplaincy assistant also organises theatre and cinema trips, along with outings to the monthly ceilidh for Irish dancing. Recently, a regular event entitled "Abraham's Table" has gathered together members of all the major religions in Manchester at St Peter's to celebrate their religious diversity and share a meal together, which has been a truly fascinating experience. In addition, students from the University of Manchester and Manchester Metropolitan University recently teamed up through St Peter's Chaplaincy and the local Catholic Chaplaincy, St Augustine's, to perform in an ecumenical production of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat. Students from both chaplaincies learned a lot from each other, and the links between the two chaplaincies remain strong.
All in all, St Peter’s Church and Chaplaincy offers a truly enlightened and altogether different perspective to Christianity, urging open-mindedness and unity in a world wracked by prejudice and division.