Affinity is a network of conservative evangelical churches and Christian agencies throughout Britain and Ireland.
[1] It was founded in 1953 as the British Evangelical Council and in 1981 numbered over 2,000 churches.
[3][4] Affinity provides networking and support to conservative evangelical churches in the United Kingdom and Ireland.
[3] The British Evangelical Council focussed, in reaction to the 1967 Keele University conference, "to draw in churches predicated on Scriptural ecumenicity."
[6] Since 2016, its director has been Graham Nicholls, who is also pastor of Christ Church Haywards Heath.