Wells Cathedral

18/06/2026

📢 Could you sponsor the Wells Cathedral Cider & Cheese Festival 2026?

🍎 After a hugely successful Cider & Cheese Festival 2025, we’re back with an even bigger selection of tasty treats at Wells Cathedral, on Saturday 26 September. 🧀

We have sponsorship opportunities on our wristbands, t-shirts, and glasses, among others, making this a perfect chance to connect your business with our audiences in a high-profile event for the Cathedral.

🔗 To learn more, visit: www.wellscathedral.org.uk/whats-on/sponsor-the-2026-cider-cheese-festival

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcXG8PeUI_g

Come and taste the very best cheese and cider the West Country has ...

18/06/2026

📣 Exciting work is well underway for the Vicars' Close Project, a once-in-a-generation opportunity to save the oldest continuously inhabited medieval street in Europe, still used for its original purpose. Thank you to National Lottery players and The National Lottery Heritage Fund for making this amazing project possible.

The project team is now seeking former residents who can speak about their experience living on such a unique and historically significant street.

Oral History trained Volunteers can travel to you to collect your stories, which will then go to the South West Heritage Trust for posterity and may be used for creative activities and part of the interpretation in the Vicars' Close when the exhibition is open.

This project is a first of its kind for the Cathedral and Vicars' Close, and the team would love to hear from as many former residents as possible. If this applies to you or someone you know, please spread the word and get in touch:

[email protected]

18/06/2026

We're hiring! 📣

The Cathedral is seeking dedicated, efficient and reliable Visitor Services & Retail Assistants to provide excellent customer service to Cathedral and Shop visitors during weekend shifts.

This is a part time position of at least 4 hours per week.

🗓️ Closing date: Sunday 28 June, Midnight
🗓️ Shortlisting date: Friday 3 July 2026
🗓️ Interview Date: Tuesday 7 July 2026

🔗 Find out more and apply here: https://www.wellscathedral.org.uk/your-cathedral/vacancies

18/06/2026

We're hiring! 📣

The Cathedral is seeking a dedicated, efficient and reliable Shop Manager employed on a fixed-term contract of employment to cover the maternity leave of the permanent postholder.

Job sharing with another Shop Manager, the postholder will be responsible for the successful running of the Cathedral Shop, ensuring an excellent customer experience and managing all aspects of the store operation.

This is a part-time position 23.94 hours per week on average.

🗓️ Closing date: Wednesday 1 July 2026, 9:00am
🗓️ Shortlisting date: Friday 3 July 2026
🗓️ Interview Date: Wednesday 8 July 2026

🔗 Find out more and apply here: https://www.wellscathedral.org.uk/your-cathedral/vacancies

17/06/2026

📣 Wells Cathedral is seeking an experienced and insightful individual to join its Investment Sub-Committee, providing expert guidance and oversight across the Cathedral’s investment and property portfolios.

This is a rewarding opportunity to contribute strategic advice, support robust financial stewardship, and help shape long-term investment performance within a complex charitable organisation.

Working alongside fellow committee members and advisers, you will play a key role in ensuring effective governance, informed decision-making, and alignment with the Cathedral’s mission and values.

🗓️ Closing date: Monday 22 June 2026, 12.00pm
🗓️ Shortlisting date: Wednesday 24 June 2026
🗓️ Interview date: w/c 29 June 2026

🔗 Find out more and apply here:
www.wellscathedral.org.uk/your-cathedral/vacancies

17/06/2026

👏🏻 Congratulations to Wells Cathedral School for their excellent school report, which included the inspectors’ recognition of the positive relationship with Wells Cathedral.

The inspectors wrote: "The school’s close partnership with Wells Cathedral provides an inspiring and musically enriched environment. Choristers take part in high-quality liturgical and concert performances, including on the many occasions that the school community attends services and celebrations at the Cathedral. This develops their deep musical understanding, technical precision and rich appreciation of the spiritual purpose of their music-making."

📷: Mark Pickthall

17/06/2026

🤝 The Dean's Networking Breakfast earlier this week brought together inspiring individuals from across the charity, private and public sectors.

Fascinating discussions were had (with coffee and croissants) in the wonderful setting of Wells Cathedral's Loft Café.

Thank you to everyone who joined us to make an inspiring start to the week!

16/06/2026

🎶 Join us for a concert performed by the Wells Cathedral School Symphony Orchestra.

Under the baton of Tess Jackson, Wells Cathedral School Symphony Orchestra performs Sibelius’s Violin Concerto and Rachmaninov’s Symphonic Dances, joined by the Chamber Choir in Vaughan Williams’s Serenade to Music.

📆 Thursday 2 July
🕰 7 p.m. – 9.30 p.m.
🎟️ £19.50

🔗 Find out more here: www.wellscathedral.org.uk/whats-on?event=115717278

15/06/2026

👏🏻 Congratulations to Caroline Boddington, DL. Prebendary and Senior Non-Executive Member of Wells Cathedral, who was recognised in the King’s Birthday Honours list for services to the Church of England.

Caroline has been appointed Order of the British Empire (OBE), and we are enormously grateful for her work for the Church, past and present.

15/06/2026

🔥 Great to hear The Very Reverend Toby Wright, Dean of Wells, speaking on BBC Radio Gloucestershire yesterday.

📻 Tune in at the 1:07:50 mark for a fascinating chat on the themes of "death, dinosaurs and deans".

Thought-provoking news on Sunday morning with Kate, and features with faith in mind.