The Restore Hub is a free, community-based healing and wellbeing programme delivered by King’s Church Beverley.
Many people are facing a crisis in their physical and mental health. Life can be hard and healing rarely happens alone.
The Restore Hub is a free, community-based healing and wellbeing hub offering a range of services which anyone can access for their physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual wellbeing. We believe that every person deserves to be given the opportunity to recover, to be healed and to flourish. The Restore Hub exists to make that possible, whatever your circumstances.
Our services are open to all, regardless of religious, ethnic, social or financial background.
Counselling and Therapeutic Services
The counselling and therapeutic services offered through the Restore Hub are provided by a team of skilled and compassionate practitioners. Our team includes both retired professionals and those who are actively practising in their fields, bringing current knowledge and insight to the sessions they offer. All practitioners work within recognised professional and ethical frameworks, ensuring that the care you receive meets the highest standards, even though it is offered entirely free of charge.
We offer one-to-one counselling for individuals navigating a wide range of life challenges, including anxiety, depression, bereavement, trauma, relationship difficulties, low self-esteem, and the pressures of everyday life that can sometimes become overwhelming. Sessions provide a confidential and non-judgemental space in which you can speak honestly, be heard fully, and begin to make sense of your experience with the help of a trained guide.
In addition to counselling, the Restore Hub offers sessions with therapists who specialise in particular therapeutic approaches, which may be recommended depending on your individual needs and circumstances. We are committed to offering a personalised pathway rather than a one-size-fits-all programme, and where appropriate we will help signpost people to other statutory or community services that may complement what we provide. To enquire about counselling or therapy, or to arrange an initial conversation with a member of our team, please use the contact details below — no formal referral is required.
Healing Prayer through the Laying on of Hands
Healing prayer is one of the most ancient and enduring practices of the Christian church, rooted in the life and ministry of Jesus himself, who healed the sick, restored the broken, and declared that his followers would do the same. From the earliest centuries of the church, the laying on of hands has been understood as a physical act of faith — a gentle, deliberate gesture through which believers invite the presence and power of God to touch a person’s body, mind, or spirit. In the Bible, the apostle James instructed the leaders of the church to pray over the sick and anoint them with oil so that they could be healed. Healing prayer is woven through the practice of the early church fathers; and it has been part of the living tradition of Christian worship and pastoral care in every generation since. In the past few decades there has been a remarkable and widespread renewal of healing prayer across virtually every Christian tradition. Today, many thousands of churches around the world offer healing prayer as a regular part of their worship and community life, having seen God move in ways that defy easy explanation and that have brought genuine transformation to people’s lives.
At the Restore Hub, healing prayer is offered by trained and experienced volunteers who bring both pastoral sensitivity and personal faith to this ministry. The laying on of hands is always done gently and with your full consent — there is no pressure, no performance, and no expectation. Whether you come with a specific physical condition, an emotional wound, a spiritual need, or simply a sense that something is not well and you don’t quite know how to name it, you are welcome to receive prayer. We believe that God is genuinely interested in your wholeness, and that prayer is never a last resort — it is an invitation for the One who made you and knows you best to intervene in your life with His supernatural wisdom and power.
A Faith-based Service
The Restore Hub is openly and unapologetically a faith-based service. Our practitioners — whether counsellors, therapists, or prayer ministers — are all committed Christians, and their faith is central to the work they do here; it is a part of what motivates and sustains them in it. You will never be pressured to adopt any particular belief, and no one will make their care for you conditional on your openness to faith. Our practitioners are trained professionals and compassionate people first, and they will always respect where you are and what you are comfortable with. At the same time, we want to be honest that this is not a purely secular service. Faith may surface naturally in conversation; a practitioner may, with your permission, pray with you or for you; and the whole endeavour is held in the belief that human beings are not only physical and psychological creatures but spiritual ones too — and that lasting wholeness often involves all three dimensions. We think that is a strength, not a limitation, and we hope you will find it so.
A Healing Heritage — St John of Beverley and King’s Church
King’s Church Beverley is located exists within a town that was founded as a centre of healing. St John of Beverley, the eighth-century Bishop of Hexham and later York, retired to a small monastery on this site and died here in 721 AD. John was renowned in his own lifetime for remarkable acts of miraculous healing. The Venerable Bede describes him as a man of prayer through whom sight was restored to the blind, speech given to the mute, and the sick made well. His tomb at what became Beverley Minster quickly drew pilgrims from across England and beyond seeking healing. Several notable kings even came to Beverley because of its notable
King’s Church Beverley carries a sense of calling to continue this inheritance of healing rooted in prayer and faith. Our church building itself was originally a medical clinic. The development of the Restore Hub, and our wider vision to grow a recognised healing centre in the heart of this town, flows directly from that conviction. We want to see something built here that is worthy of the heritage — not as nostalgia, but as a living continuation of the same grace that has been at work in Beverley for more than thirteen hundred years.
How and When
We aim provide a service that is free at the point of use for all, funded by donations, community grants and volunteers giving their time freely to the project.
If you would like more information about the Restore Hub and its services, please email us at kingschurchoffice@gmail.com giving your name, telephone number and a brief description of the help that you would like to receive, and someone will get back to you as soon as possible.
Depending on the number of requests for help at any one time and the number of available volunteers, we may not always be able to offer help every person who applies for help, though we will always do our best.
Healing Testimony
I became seriously ill with COPD over 3 years ago. I was hospitalized for almost two weeks, whilst they tried to stabilise my breathing using various nebulizers and inhalers, but nothing really made a lot of difference. After that, I could hardly breathe. When I got up in a morning, I used to have to hang onto furniture and gasp to try and force enough air into my lungs so that I could move around the room. I went to a healing meeting at King’s Church Beverley. When I was prayed for, I felt an amazing, warm sensation in my chest.
When they had finished praying, I discovered that I could breathe completely normally again. In the weeks and months since then, I feel like I have got my life back again. I would like to encourage everyone to go and receive prayer for healing, because it has made such a big difference in my life.
Colin Jamieson