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The Christadelphians have been renting the hall in Dorset Road, Ealing for over twenty years, and renting generally in the Ealing area for over 100 years.  Our fifty or so members and regular non-member visitors consist of a few family groups from babies through to grandparents, a few couples, and about a dozen single people who are mainly tertiary students.  Most are English, although there is also a mixture of other nationalities including Antipodeans, Africans and Asians.  What ties this group of individuals together is a shared understanding of what the Bible teaches.

The Christadelphians have a small presence in nearly every country around the world.  What makes us different from other Christian churches is that we regard the Bible as God's one and only revelation to humankind, we apply a great deal of attention to reading and understanding it and living according to its principles.  That leads to a number of doctrinal differences where we consider mainstream Christianity has added or embellished doctrines that do not have sufficient Biblical support.  You can read about those doctrinal differences on the what we believe page.

The reason you hear little about the Christadelphians in the media is that fortunately we have not had any scandals that have warranted media attention (and we pray none will arise in the future); but primarily because we do not have any central organisation.  That means there is no earthly head of our church, no public relations department, no big advertising budgets.  Each Christadelphian church around the world is autonomous.  It must manage itself and pay its own bills.  Meetings, Sunday School, youth groups etc are run by the members on an entirely voluntary basis.  The Ealing Christadelphian meeting is funded entirely by the Ealing Christadelphian members who provide voluntary donations.

The Christadelphians are not the hall's main users.  There are a variety of non-Christadelphian local community groups who rent the hall on a daily basis, mainly during term time, including a children's playgroup, brownies, woodcraft folk, a couple of local branches of the Labour Party (with which we are not affiliated as the Christadelphians are apolitical) and ad hoc users such as children's birthday parties.  The Christadelphians use the hall on Sundays and occasionally on evenings when we fit around the other users' schedules.  We became the hall's owners in 2005 when the Labour Trustees decided it was time to sell the hall.  From 1998 to 2005 we raised the funds through generous donations from members, for which we are exceedingly grateful, and investment in a property trust, and bought the hall and took over its management.  We are not aware that any other Christadelphian hall is rented out to so many local community groups in the way we are doing here.

Those who were using the hall prior to our ownership will recall the significant woodrot, disrepair and the external supporting beams to prevent the hall collapsing.  The 80 year old hall had outlived its useful life. Once we became owners we saw that as an untenable situation.  In the summer of 2006 we refurbished the hall, again at our own cost, and this included a number of essential structural and safety improvements. The hall is now a great deal safer than it was, and continues to be used by substantially the same groups as it has for the past several years.

We look forward to continuing to worship, study and meditate in the hall. You are welcome to join us any Sunday, see our what we do page for more information.