Called to build.

Made to belong.

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Our Story

Some people are called to build. Not just by ambition or opportunity, but by something deeper. A conviction that what they are making matters, and that they were made to make it.

That calling is a gift. But it rarely comes with a community.

Founders with Faith exists for the builders who want their faith to be the foundation, not a footnote. A way of working that begins not with strategy but with surrender. That holds ambition and humility in the same hand, and trusts that the One who calls us to create is also the One who sustains us through it.

We are a community of Christian founders, entrepreneurs, students, and anyone who feels drawn to build something of their own, not because collaboration is efficient (though it is), but because fellowship is biblical. Because iron sharpens iron. Because the early Church gathered not in boardrooms but in homes, around tables, and the Spirit moved.

Here, your faith isn't something you set aside when the work gets serious. It's the ground everything else stands on. We gather to encourage one another in the lonely seasons, to challenge one another in the comfortable ones, and to become, through the process of building, a little more like the One who first called us to it.

You were called to build. You were made to belong. This is where both happen.

Our pillars.

  • Builders, makers, starters, dreamers. The ones who look at the world and think ‘this could be better’. And then actually do something about it.

  • Christ is the foundation beneath every venture. We do not bolt faith onto business; we build business on faith.

  • The bedrock under everything. Not a mission statement stuck on the wall, the actual ground we stand on when the market shifts and the funding stalls and the doubts creep in.

  • Nobody builds well in isolation. We carry one another’s burdens, celebrate one another’s wins, sharpen one another’s thinking, and make sure no one eats lunch alone at the difficult moments.

  • Introductions, networks, capital, wisdom, ideas. This is the connective tissue that turns a room of individuals into a functioning community. We don’t just gather, we connect.

  • You can go fast alone, but you can go further together. We challenge each other to think bigger, build better, and trust deeper.

  • Building a company will shape you whether you like it or not. We’d rather that shaping looked more like Christ than like the hustle culture that’s selling you a masterclass.

  • Starting is brave. Finishing is rarer. We’re here for founders who want to see the whole thing through, the calling, the company, the purpose they were made for.

Upcoming events

  • Scenic landscape of a turquoise lake, rolling green hills, and distant mountains under a cloudy sky.

    April Gathering

    Thank you for all those that came to our first in person gathering on Thursday 23rd April at The Bear Inn! Hope to see you all at the next gathering in May.

  • May Gathering

    Thursday 21/05/2026
    18:00-20:00

    The Bear Inn,
    Alfred St,
    Oxford

  • June Gathering

    FRIDAY 26/06/2026
    17:00-19:00

    The Bear Inn,
    Alfred St,
    Oxford