Save The Parish is delighted to announce that we had a record attendance at Saturday 20th April Conference in Bristol.
The topic of the conference was ‘Campaigning for the Future of our Parishes’. The Bishop of Ramsbury and Chris Loder MP were key speakers, both of whom spoke enthusiastically about the need to save the bedrock that is the parish.
Notes of each speaker will be circulated to supporters and on this website later this week.
In total, 1686 responses were received with most — 1495 — sent by individuals. Of
these, the vast majority were lay people, generally regular churchgoers, PCC
members, churchwardens, and volunteers. Most raised “signi#cant concerns”,
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