The community of Lichfield Cathedral seeks to play its part in serving the wider community within which it is set. We do this primarily through our prayer life, praying daily with the rest of the Church for peace and for healing for the world, and through giving financial support to local and national caring agencies. We encounter the world practically through:

• the Diocesan Sound Digest, which supplies over 500 tapes a month to the partially sighted
• the Cathedral Bookshop, which serves our visitors by supplying mementoes of their visit, gifts and religious books
• the Cathedral Coffee Shop, which offers convivial hospitality to visitors and hosts their celebrations
• our Mother and Baby Group, which provides a supportive meeting-place for young mums with their first child
• our Education and Encounter programme, which hosts tertiary level classes in a number of subjects, and puts on a programme of lectures and talks, to which all are welcome
• our Art Exhibitions, which are held from time to time in the Cathedral
• our Visitor Ministry, which shares the Cathedral with parties of all ages and interests and with the casual visitor. Our hope is that, by giving a warm welcome, hospitality and information to our visitors, tourists will become visitors, and visitors will become pilgrims.
• The St Chad's Trust encourages and assists young people from our link churches to spend between four months and a year in placements here in the UK and in turn sends young people from this country to work in caring projects in one of our link churches.