At the February 2025 General Synod, Carl Hughes, the Chair of the Archbishops’ Council Finance Committee, gave an update on the Diocesan Finances Review.
Some of the language is difficult to follow for the unfamiliar, but the general trend is to try to find more funding for parishes through increased LInC and improving stipend and pension for clergy. Save The Parish is being heard.
You can read more and download the paper presented to the General Synod here.
REPORT ON JULY 2023 GENERAL SYNOD by Emma Thompson This article published in the Daily Telegraph on 20 July 2023 https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/07/20/church-parishes-are-on-the-verge-of-being-lost-for-good/ is a cut version of the report below: The CofE’s…
“Bishops have been captured by management.”
In most cases, PCC amalgamations should be resisted – by politely saying ‘no thank you’ and staying firm, even under pressure to change. Reason: the PCC is the legal entity, and there are no better guardians of a particular church than the local people who attend it and live near it.
Emma Thompson has written this piece for The Rectory Society to help those who value the parish system and want to keep it.
Parish councils will now be legally able to make grants to parish churches, on the same footing as anyone else in the community. Read press release here
“It’s hard not to see this overzealous interpretation of Covid restrictions as emblematic of the problems the Church of England has got itself into over the past year in its…