On Sunday 11th February, The Reverend Canon Nick Jepson-Biddle was licensed by the Right Reverend Dr Martin Gainsborough, Bishop of Kingston as Associate Priest of St Anne’s, Kew and Director of the Kew Institute for Theology and Gardening. A joyous Choral Evensong was held with the choir singing service setting Stanford in C and Hadley ‘My Beloved Spake’.

The evening marked the beginning of the Kew Institute for Theology and Gardening (more details to follow in the coming months) of which Bishop Martin said:
“I have every confidence that the Kew Institute will make an important contribution to the greatest challenge of our time.”