A Song to Celebrate Women's Ministry

Aim

The song is now written and this project is now closed

A project bringing together people from across the Churches and our communities to Commission and launch a song to celebrate women priests in the Church of England. We want to commission O Hooley and Tidow, a Yorkshire based band of Gentleman Jack fame, to write a song celebrating some of the first women to be ordained, including: 

Rev Margaret Mabbs who campaigned for women to be ordained from 1942, was amongst the first to be ordained in 1994 at the age of 70 and retired from ministry at the age of 92; and also celebrating the woman who supported her.

Jemima Prasadam, was the first South Asian woman to be ordained in the Church of England, also in 1994. She is the mother of the current Bishop of Huddersfield, +Smitha Prasadam.

And we celebrate many others who were ordained in that first year, plus those who continue to minister today.

Supported by NADAWM, the National Association of Diocesan Advisers for Women's Ministry and friends, CofE members and wider communities, across the UK and beyond 

This project successfully funded on 17th April 2025