Song & Hymn Writers Foundation

About Song & Hymn Writers Foundation

A UK charity dedicated to promoting excellence in Christian songwriting and resourcing the worshipping church. For 60 years, through initiatives like Jubilate, Resound Worship and the 12 Song Challenge, we’ve been helping the church sing in ways that glorify God, grow disciples, and build community. Towards that end, we have seven aims: 1. Publish songs and hymns that deepen the worship of the Church, engaging with themes and styles that broaden its language of worship and reflect the richness of scripture and diversity of Christian discipleship. 2. Serve the church by producing and modelling songs and hymns that encourage and enable congregational singing, that are not built around personalities and performing artists, but treat the congregation as the most important voice. 3. Grow & diversify the pool of talent by discovering, nurturing and giving a platform to writers outside the few dominant labels, with a particular focus on UK sources. 4. Champion the grass-roots songwriter as a unique voice in each local church, resourcing them to help grow their skills and provide a healthy balance alongside the globalised song-sources and traditional repertoire. 5. Develop community among songwriters that leads to wider accountability, greater skill, deeper understanding and a mutual, organic sharing of songs across churches that is independent of market systems. 6. Value the writer as a person and member of the wider church they serve, through publishing models that favour creatives over corporations and which are relational, generous and empowering. 7. Work in partnership with churches, organisations and other publishers, to pursue greater creativity and to model generous kingdom values throughout the industry.

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