Reform, an Anglican campaign group, has indicated its intention to set up a network of bishops from England and overseas who would be available to provide Episcopal oversight to the group's member and so bypass the oversight of the Archbishops of Canterbury and York.

The group is conservative Evangelical and is opposed to the ordination of women and of practising homosexuals. It has already requested the Archbishops to provide a 'flying bishop' of their viewpoint but this request was turned town. The chairman of the group, the Revd Philip Hacking, has said that he could find three bishops required for a valid but irregular consecration and these might come from overseas. The group do not plan immediate action but at a meeting in December they drew up strategies which they have now shared publicly. A statement from the group said that three strategies were being planned: "The employment, where necessary, desirable and possible of retired or other godly bishops in good standing with the Church", the use of the existing 'flying bishops', or a future Evangelical one, as requested; and "the election and consecration, after due process, of bishops from the Reform constituency who can be employed where necessary and desirable. Reform says its membership is 600 clergy and 1300 lay members. They state that this strategy has been formed in the context of evangelism "that everything is in order that we might more effectively evangelise the nation."