There are six different categories of Local Ecumenical Partnerships between different denominations, viz.

     1.  Single Congregation Partnership

     2.  Congregations in Covenanted Partnership

     3.  Shared Building Partnership

     4.  Chaplaincy Partnership

     5.  Mission Partnership

     6.  Education Partnership

The Local Ecumenical Partnerships in the Black Country are:

Beechdale (Category 3) Catholic & Anglican

The Black Country Urban Industrial Mission (Categories 4 & 5)
     Anglican, Methodist, United Reformed, Baptist

Bromley/Pensnett (Category 3) Methodist & Anglican

Caldmore (Category 2) two Anglican, Methodist, Catholic

King's Hill (Category 3) Anglican & Methodist

Lye (Categories 1 & 3) United Reformed & Methodist

Penn (Category 2) Anglican, United Reformed, Methodist, Catholic

Perton (Categories 1 & 3) Anglican & United Reformed

Pheasey (Categories 1 & 3) Anglican & Methodist

Sedgley (Categories 1 & 3) United Reformed & Methodist

Stowlawn (Categories 1 & 3) Methodist & Anglican

Tettenhall (Category 2) Anglican, Catholic, United Reformed

Walsall (Category 5) two Anglican, Methodist, United Reformed

West Bromwich (Categories 1 & 3) Anglican & Methodist

Wolverhampton University (Category 4) Anglican, Catholic & Free Church

In theory, the Sponsoring Body appoints a Befriender to act as its link person with each LEP.  In practice at the moment the team is incomplete.  How to be a Befriender (in case, dear Reader, you feel the call) is spelt out in a paper "The Effective Befriender" (click on the link at the top).