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Carol service dates 2025

CUs across Great Britain have spent the last few months warmly welcoming new students and helping them to settle in and explore something of Jesus for themselves. They've run events to introduce them to the gospel, answered their questions and opened the Bible with them. What better way to end the term than by helping them consider the reality of the Christmas story through carol services, Christmas meals and other celebrations?

This December, we’re praying that many will be convicted of the truth they’ve been hearing.

Will you pray with us?

Manchester city-wide CU carol service last year

You can use this list of dates to pray for each CU carol service as they happen:

* indicates CU Christmas events which are not carol services

1 December

  • Exeter ECU, at St James's Park Football Stadium
  • Bath CUs, in Bath Abbey

2 December

  • Plymouth CUs, at St Andrew's Church

8 December

  • Falmouth & Exeter Penryn CU, at King Charles the Martyr Church

9 December

  • Gloucestershire CU, at FCH Chapel

10 December

  • Bristol & West of England CUs, in Bristol Cathedral

27 November

  • Surrey CU, on Stag Hill campus

1 December

  • Chichester CU, in Chichester Campus Chapel

2 December

  • Canterbury CUs in Canterbury Baptist Church
  • Solent CU, in The Spark Building

4 December

  • Royal Holloway CU, on campus
  • Bournemouth CU, Fusion Building, Talbot Campus

5 December

  • Sussex CU with Brighton CU, on Falmer Campus (Sussex)

6 December

  • Southampton CU, at Highfield Church

10 December

  • Portsmouth CU, at St Jude's Church

11 December

  • Reading CU, at St Luke's Church

15 December

  • Winchester CU, at Christ Church

27 November

  • Royal College of Music CU, BaRCM
  • Guildhall CU, Basement Bar

4 December

  • UCL and SOAS CUs, at Euston Church
  • Roehampton CU, on campus
  • London Arts (UAL) CU, evangelistic event on campus
  • Kings College CUs, Guy's Campus Chapel
  • Trinity Laban CU, at the Students' Union Bar
  • Queen Mary CU, Old Whitechapel Library

5 December

  • Imperial College & UWL CUs, at Christ Church Kensington
  • Kingston CU, Penrhyn Road Campus

9 December

  • Royal Veterinary College CU
  • St George's CU, on campus
  • St Mary's Twickenham CU

11 December

  • London School of Economics (LSE) CU, at Euston Church

TBC

  • City CU

1 December

  • Oxford CU, in the Sheldonian Theatre (two services)

2 December

  • East Anglia (UEA) CU, in the LCR music venue on campus

4 December

  • Anglia Ruskin CU* Gingerbread decorating & talk on campus
  • Cambridge CU, Great St Mary's Church, Cambridge (two services)

8 December

  • ARU Chelmsford CU

9 December

  • Brunel CU, on campus
  • Bucks New CU, on campus
  • Essex CU, at LTB6 on campus
  • Oxford Brookes CU, at All Saints Church, Headington

11 December

  • Hertfordshire CU, on campus
  • Suffolk CU*, Christmas Ball at a local church

26 November

  • Coventry CU, at Holy Trinity Church

27 November

  • Birmingham CU, in the Great Hall on campus

1 December

  • Nottingham Trent Brackenhurst CU, on campus
  • Sutton Bonington CU, in the Barn

2 December

  • Loughborough CU, at Emmanuel Church
  • Nottingham Trent CU, SU Building on City campus
  • Worcester CU, on campus

4 December

  • Aston and Birmingham City CUs* Christmas Party,
    in Rising cafe, near campus
  • Leicester and De Montfort CUs, at Holy Trinity Church

9 December

  • Nottingham CU, in the Great Hall at University Park campus
  • Nottingham Trent Clifton CU* Christmas Quiz

10 December

  • Keele CU, Christmas Dinner, Keele Campus Chapel
  • Warwick CU, Ramphal Building on campus
  • Wolverhampton CU, Christmas Party & evangelistic talk on campus

11 December

  • Derby CU* Christmas Comedy Night
  • Harper Adams CU*
  • Northampton CU* Christmas Party on campus

15 December

  • Staffordshire CU, in the Students' Union on campus

1 December

  • Swansea CUs, at Christchurch

4 December

  • Aberystwyth CU, at Holy Trinity Church
  • Cardiff CUs, at Heath Evangelical Church
  • USW Treforest CU, on campus

5 December

  • Undeb Cristnogol Cymraeg Aberystwyth (UCCA), on Aberystwyth campus

9 December

  • Bangor CU, in Bangor Cathedral

27 November

  • Lancaster CU with Cumbria CU (Lancaster), at Lancaster Priory

2 December

  • UCLan Preston CU* Gingerbread House decorating on campus

4 December

  • Liverpool, Liverpool Hope and Liverpool John Moores CUs, in the Guild, Mountford Hall

8 December

  • Manchester CUs, at RNCM Concert Hall

10 December

  • Carlisle CU, on campus

12 December

  • Chester CU, Exton Park Chapel

1 December

  • Durham CU, in Durham Cathedral (two services)
  • Leeds CU, in the Students' Union Refectory on campus
  • Leeds Conservatoire CU, Conservatoire Building
  • Leeds Beckett CU* Christmas meal at Blenheim Baptist Church

2 December

  • Lincoln CU, at Alive Church

4 December

  • York CU, Central Hall on campus

5 December

  • Newcastle and Northumbria CUs, at Jesmond Parish Church

11 December

  • Teesside CU, at St Barnabas Church, Middlesbrough

12 December

  • Sheffield and Hallam CUs, at Jubilee Centre
  • York St John CU*, Christmas social on campus

18 December

  • Huddersfield CU, carols and crêpes

21 November

  • Heriot-Watt CU* Christmas Meal

28 November

  • Stirling CU* Christmas Quiz on campus

1 December

  • Edinburgh Napier CU* Acoustic Night, Merchiston Campus

2 December

  • St Andrews CU, at Holy Trinity Church

3 December

  • Glasgow CUs (Strathclyde, Caledonian, GSA, RCS), at Adelaide Place Baptist Church

4 December

  • Dundee & Abertay CUs, in St Peter's Free Church
  • Edinburgh CU in Charlotte Chapel

5 December

  • Aberdeen & Robert Gordon CUs, in Gilcomston Church
  • Glasgow CU, in the University Chapel

8 December

  • Queen Margaret CU* Christmas Dinner at Musselburgh Baptist Church

12 December

  • UHI Inverness CU* Christmas Quiz at Smithton Free Church