Stop evangelism in state schools
Add your name to stop evangelists trying to convert children to their religion!
Children are being targeted for religious conversion — during school hours.
Schools should be places of learning, not religious recruitment. Yet some churches and religious organisations are using publicly funded schools to evangelise to children — often without parents even knowing.
Whether it’s assemblies run by external evangelists, lessons teaching creationism, or activities encouraging prayer and conversion, this is happening in schools right now. Even non-religious children are being exposed to practices designed to make them religious.
It’s not education. It’s evangelism. And it doesn’t belong in our schools.
The Church of England’s goal is to ‘double the number of young people who are active Christian disciples by 2030.’
They see schools as the way to get there.
Religious groups are open about their mission to recruit children through schools. They’re running multi-academy trusts, sending in evangelists, and reshaping the curriculum to reflect their beliefs — even in schools with diverse or non-religious student populations.
In 2025, the Church of England installed a Christian evangelist in a non-faith school in Havant. In 2023, nearly 80 C of E schools had to explain why bus loads of children were being taken out of lessons to attend evangelical rock concerts about how ‘Jesus died for you’.
But it’s not just mild-mannered Anglicans.
It also includes ghoulish American outfits visiting schools in Wales to exploit national tragedies in an attempt to convert children.
We’re calling on the Government to put an end to this.
It’s time to:
- Ban evangelism and proselytising in all schools
- End religious discrimination in admissions and staffing
- Make all schools follow a balanced RE curriculum covering world religions and non-religious views
- Guarantee all children receive inclusive, evidence-based education — not indoctrination
Whilst out of their parents’ view, children have become an unwitting audience for evangelists, peddling creationism, homophobia, and anti-abortion ideologies to their young minds. It is outrageous!
Is this what you expect when we send our children to school? School time is precious time for education, not a space to force religious ideologies on pupils.
Add your name. Say no to evangelism in schools.
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