From here the person enters First Vows after about three years. This flexibility has enabled the Community to reorder the period before First Vows to allow presence and voting in Chapter. The active life and activities of these new members enable those things for which the older members have been trained, and are still able to do, to go on without hindrance. The London house hosts or runs retreats, quiet days, and parish conferences. Various groups make use of the house, such as Julian groups, MP's wives, and Prayer for Africa.
Business groups come for discussion and mid-week Eucharist.
Individuals come for study, quiet, spiritual direction, counselling. Alongside this in London there is new work and outlook. The Community here is, and will be, firmly based on St Edward's House. The community tries in these and other ways to seek the will of God for its present and future life, and to discern what the church requires of it. Of course, the varied activities based on St Edward's House are nothing, if they are not centred in the daily community worship, and each individual's prayer.