Codrington Project
A project pursuing justice and reconciliation for USPG’s historical links to slavery on the
Codrington Estates in Barbados.
Barbados
Main language spoken: English
Barbados is a small island nation located in the southeastern Caribbean Sea. Its neighbouring islands include Saint Lucia to the north, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines to the west, and Trinidad and Tobago to the south.
The first missionaries from the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts (SPG) to be sent to the Caribbean arrived in the Windward Islands in 1712. SPG missionaries arrived in the Bahamas in 1733. Barbados is also the country of USPG’s most shameful history from when SPG owned and ran plantations on the Island.
Today, USPG has a long and cherished relationship with the Church in the Province of the West Indies, which covers Barbados, Belize, Guyana, Jamaica, the Bahamas, the North-Eastern Caribbean and Aruba, Trinidad and Tobago, and the Windward Islands.
The Codrington Project is the result of USPG’s continuous work to seek to engage critically with and take reparative action in response to USPG’s shameful links to slavery through its ownership of The Codrington Estates in Barbados. In partnership with The Codrington Trust, USPG launched the project in September 2024.
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Meet the Steering Group
On 5 September 2024, the Codrington Trust and USPG announced their eleven-member Steering Committee to govern and oversee Renewal and Reconciliation: The Codrington Project. The Steering Committee will provide guidance for the operation of the project, receiving and reviewing from the Executive Committee and making recommendations to the two trustee boards. They will work closely with and oversee the work of the two executive leads – Mr Kevin Farmer, the Codrington Trust and The Revd Dr Duncan Dormor, USPG.
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Watch
In 2023, The Codrington Trust and USPG announced ‘Renewal and Reconciliation, the Codrington Project’ to seek to address USPG’s past links with slavery through the ownership of the Codrington Estate. Since the announcement of the project in September 2023 in Barbados, time has been spent laying the foundations of the project so that it is resourced and managed appropriately. This video explains the project and why we must undertake this work over the next 10-15 years.