Our 2025 Annual Meeting is moving further north year this to Birmingham and will be held at St Martin’s in the Bull Ring on Saturday, 20th September 2025, so get the date in your diary!
The meeting is a great opportunity to meet and socialise with fellow magazine editors, as well as celebrate the winners of our 2025 awards. There will also be opportunity to hear from and ask questions of our keynote speakers – check their profiles further down the page.
All church magazine editors are welcome to join. Please do bring copies of your magazine to share with others on the “swaps” table.
We will be opening bookings nearer to the time of the meeting, but in the meantime we are pleased to provide details of our two speakers.
Don’t forget to book your travel tickets too!
Programme
Full details of the day will be confirmed nearer the time, but will be featuring:
Morning Key Note talk – Tola Doll Fisher
Afternoon talk – Dave Walker
followed by presentation of the ACE 2025 Awards.
Keynote Speaker - Tola Doll Fisher
Tola Doll Fisher wrote all the articles and interviewed her neighbours for her first magazine aged about 9 or 10! She is now the magazine editor and creative director at Premier Woman Alive, co‑host of the YouTube show Sisterhood, creator and host of the Woman Alive podcast and author of ‘Still Standing:100 Lessons From An ‘Unsuccessful’ Life’. In her work as a speaker, Tola delivered a TEDx Talk on Debunking the Myth of Success and writes regularly on Substack under the name Christ Couture, unfiltered personal essays from a Christian model (not a model Christian).
We look forward to hearing her story and being inspired on our own editing journey, as well as picking up some ideas and tips for our magazines.
Afternoon Speaker - Dave Walker
Dave Walker has been drawing cartoons for the Church Times for over 20 years. He runs CartoonChurch.com, a website supplying cartoons for church publications. He is the author of eleven books of cartoons, published by Canterbury Press and Bloomsbury.
Dave will be speaking about the use of humour in church magazines.