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Exeter Diocese Common Fund | Exeter Diocese

The PCC have therefore decided that continuing payment of the Common Fund (2023 – £7,754) is unsustainable and, until they know the cost of stage 2 of the repairs to the tower in July 2023, they will limit their Common Fund contributions to £100 per month from January to June 2023.

By Save The Parish, 10 months16 December 2022 ago
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Renovating away history | Durham Diocese

St Cuthbert’s Darlington has been awarded £2,000,000 by the CofE to renovate the building and to appoint a pioneer chaplain, youth worker, operations director, and director of music, all for a period of 5 years. The current congregation is very small, and the aim is to make the new payroll Read more…

By Admin, 10 months25 November 2022 ago
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Commemorating Queen Elizabeth II in a Cotswold Parish | Gloucester Diocese

 In the Diocese of Gloucester’s Cotswold parish of Saint Peter, Willersey with Saintbury, the announcement of the most sad death of Our Sovereign Lady, Queen Elizabeth initiated an urgent and thoughtful conversation between Churchwarden and Tower Captain.  Arrangements were immediately in hand to raise the Saint George’s Flag to half-mast Read more…

By Admin, 11 months4 November 2022 ago
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The hierarchy must wake up and smell the coffee | Bath & Wells Diocese

We are in a benefice of four churches and have been in vacancy for two years. There are three benefices in this deanery amounting to eleven churches, in vacancy. In an adjoining deanery there are three benefices in vacancy – perhaps ten or twelve churches and in another adjoining deanery Read more…

By Save The Parish, 11 months28 October 2022 ago

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