
St Bede's Pastoral Centre
Retreat Centre Description
A non-residential Pastoral Centre in York next door to the Bar Convent.
St Bede's is a charitable work of the Congregation of Jesus and offers a wide range of events, courses and retreats both in centre and online.
Honouring the uniqueness of each person and rooted in the Christian Wisdom and Ignatian traditions, we seek to meet all those we welcome wherever they are on their spiritual journey and to accompany and nurture them into greater wholeness and fulness of life.
The main Ignatian courses offered are a 2 year Personal and Spiritual Development Course, a 1 year Training in Spiritual Conversation Skills Course and a 2 year Training in Ignatian Spiritual Accompaniment Course.
We offer a varied programme of quiet days and workshops in centre and online. Again, this year we focus on some contemporary wisdom figures and many other varied themes.
Room Hire
Please note that we also offer a variety of different sized rooms for hire with a discount available for small charities.
Contact
Full details of our Programme which runs from September to July can be found on our website www.stbedes.org.uk
For more information or to book please contact Fiona Hill, Centre Manager on 01904 464900 or email fiona@stbedes.org.uk

Accommodation on Offer
Non-residential Pastoral Centre
Chapel
Lending Library - our growing collection of spirituality books can also be viewed online through our website
Conference Room and Annexe (combined capacity 45)
Creative, Art & Wellbeing Space (Meeting Room capacity 25)
Counselling Rooms with a special rate for counsellors and spiritual accompaniers
2 other Meeting Rooms (capacities 10 and 20 people)
Annexe (informal Meeting Room capacity 7)
Coffee Lounge
Small Courtyard Garden

Retreat Centre Facilities
Please see website for retreat centre facilities
Types of Retreat Offered
Please see website for retreats offered
2025 Events
Online
All Year
Silent Individually Guided Retreats
January weekly
Guided Prayer
March
13, 20, 27, Lent Talks
April
03 Lent Talk
In Centre
All Year
Retreats in daily life
Praying through poetry
Together in meditation
Taizé prayer
Wellbeing sessions
Creative space
January
13 To bless the space between us
22 Etty, a very modern mystic
February
01 Tai Chi and meditation day
15 Belonging, remembering ourselves home
26 Lent workshop series
March
05, 12, 26, Lent workshop series
April
02 Lent workshop series
08 Spiritual audit for Lent
10, 17, 24, 31 Living Word: Lent
May
04 Tai Chi and meditation day
07 Mary Oliver
09-11 Whitby retreat - In harmony with creation
17 Return from exile
June
27-29 Whitby retreat - Rewilding the heart
July
Summer School Icon painting - dates to be confirmed
Retreat Centre Location
21 Blossom St, York YO24 1AQ, UK
2026 Events
2026 Events
A wide selection of online and in centre short courses and events including:
Monthly Taizé prayer, Wellbeing and Praying Through Poetry; weekly Online Guided Prayer; Short courses on Christian Classics, The Great Search and the Enneagram; Tai Chi and Meditation Days; Body Prayer; Online LentTalks; Days and half days on Thomas Merton, Mary Ward, John O'Donohue, The Lord's Prayer, Sand Play, St Francis and St Clare, Lazarus and Wondering our way into the future; Themed weekend residential retreats in Whitby; A Summer School 'The Widsom Years'with Margaret Silf.

St Bede's Pastoral Centre
21 Blossom St, York YO24 1AQ, UK
