Portsmouth Readers’ Annual Conference
Each year at the end of January we hold our conference at the Meon Valley Hotel in Shedfield. In previous years it has been held at the Sandown Hotel on the Isle of Wight. We have a teaching focus for each year and usually manage to get excellent speakers to inspire us. We stay in a warm, comfortable hotel, full board, with a bar.
Comfortable hotel, great company, inspiring speakers, exciting programme.
“Why would you not want to be there?”
The conference is organised by a small team .
Past Conferences
- 2025 conference Psalm 84, with the Community of Hopeweavers
- 2024 conference “Pioneering Parishes”, with Rev Geg Bakker and Rev Tina Hodgett
- 2023 conference “What’s the Church for?”, with Rt Rev Gavin Collins, Bishop of Dorchester
- 2019 conference “Co-workers in the Kingdom: partnership in mission”, with the Bishop of Leicester, the Rt Rev Martyn Snow
- 2018 Conference “Unpacking the Lord’s Prayer”
- 2017 Conference “Regenerating the Church” – Dr Who, the Tardis and Time Travel
- 2016 Conference “Nor that Man” – rescuing the reputation of St Paul?
- 2015 Conference “Getting to grips with St Mark’s Gospel”
- 2014 Conference “Spiritual pilgrimage”
- 2013 Conference “Why preach the Old Testament?”
- 2012 Conference “Keep me travelling along with you”
- 2011 Conference “On the Damascus Road”
- 2010 Conference “Fuel, Feed, Focus” – Speaker: The Bishop of Sodor and Man, The Right Rev Robert Paterson