Welcome to Bolsover Methodist Church, located on Hill Top, just off Bolsover's town centre.

The Church building at Hilltop was opened in 1896 and offers a friendly welcome to all people in the Bolsover area as well as being a worship and community hub for social support, spiritual care and family gathering.

Many church movements based in community care have originated from this building, including: the Lay Witness Mission Movement at Bolsover (from the USA), Freedom Community Project and CBS Community Bible Study at Bolsover (from London).

We are also a Church that has nurtured members & supported their calling into Methodist Ministry.

We worship together every Sunday morning at 10.30am.

Ministers

The minister at Bolsover is the Rev'd Mark Carrick .

Please contact the minister or use the contact form if you have any questions.

Bolsover's Life and Mission

The calling of Bolsover Methodist Church is to respond to the gospel of God's love in Christ and to live out its discipleship in worship and mission.

It does this by focussing around four themes:

• Worship that connects people with God, that is both recognizable and fresh.
• Caring that enables people to experience the care of Christ in formal and informal ways.
• Learning that helps people to grow as disciples of Christ and be enabled in their service of Him.
• Mission that engages with this community and beyond, and enables us to express the love of God in Christ.

Bolsover's Building

Bolsover Methodist Church was built in 1896 for worship, with no provision on site for other activities. Subsequently, the original balcony was converted into an upper room, and a small extension added, the Wesley Room. In 1991, a further extension was added, the Sykes Room, providing much needed space for the growing activities of the church.

Worship at Bolsover

• Sunday morning services occur in person at 10.30am each week.
• We have a lively Sunday morning service inclusive of children from babies to early teens.
• We have contemporary music played each week by our band.
• In addition to our Sunday morning service, we will also regularly have different events on during the week
• Communion is held once per month

Fellowship Groups

There are several weekly Fellowship and Bible Study groups which normally meet at the Church or in home groups.

Children and Young People

• Sunday mornings offer a Sunday school for children and young people, so feel free to bring children along.
• Once a month there is a "Who let the dads out" baby and toddler group for dads, grandads, uncles and other male carers. This is for children aged 0-5. More info can be found on the Facebook page.
• There is a monthly messy church on a Thursday from 3.30pm to 6pm.

Community groups

• Care groups.
• Monday women's fellowship.
• Tuesday and Friday Community Cafes; Befrienders; Reading Group; Client Support Services; Food Bank; Allotment Group; Job Club.
• Monthly prayer meeting.

Freedom Community Project

In 2008 the Freedom Community Project was formed as the church's major missional arm. It was established to reach out and offer practical support to the local community, which had suffered enormously through loss of employment with the closure of local pits and ancillary industries in the late 1990's, and was struggling to recover. The recession of 2008 compounded the suffering and problems of local people with severe hardship, poverty, debt, health and family/relationship problems becoming more common. It offered free client support and guidance services, assisting with benefit claims, housing applications, debt counselling, and guides people to appropriate specialists where health/mental problems are identified. A food bank, free 'drop in' cafes, and a reading/literacy group were also run. In 2012 for governance, financial and practical reasons, the Freedom Community Project became an independent charity and registered limited company, although the Methodist Church and the Freedom Community Project were perceived as synonymous by the local community.

The Freedom Community Project recently acknowledged its 10 years of becoming a Charity and celebrated with an event held at Bolsover Methodist Church, where it was first launched on 16th September 2008.

Sadly in 2025 Freedom announced:

"After years of serving Bolsover and beyond, Freedom Community Project will be closing due to funding challenges.
We're incredibly grateful to our staff, volunteers, funders, and supporters who made our mission possible. St Bernadette’s premises will now be closed, but food bank services will continue one day a week until further notice.
We're working with partners to ensure a smooth transition and keep support centres open in Bolsover, Shirebrook, Clowne and South Normanton.

Thank you for being part of our journey."

Booking or hiring spaces at Bolsover

The church is available for booking for many activities and events such as:

• Weddings
• Funerals
• Groups or organisations
• Yoga/Zumba
• Music instructors

Please contact Bolsover.methodist@gmail.com for any booking enquiries.

More information on what's happening at Bolsover is available on our Facebook page.