The Parish Maintenance Schedule should be included in churches' annual reports from 2013.

Here is the Maintenance Checklist referenced in the Schedule.

Here is a link to the Dicoese of London's very comprehensive Disability Access Audit

FAO: General Purposes Committee

Please click the links below to access the files:

Initial Letter and Questionnaire sent out by Rev R Hainsworth.
 

Ecclesiastical Insurance guidance to churches with links to all documents.

Ecclesiastical Insurance Health and Safety Policy.

Ecclesiastical Insurance Health and Safety Guidance Notes.

General Risk Assessment Form

Fire Risk Assessment Form

Accident and Witness Report Form

Fire Safety Guidance

To all the clergy and laity of the Church in Wales: An urgent call.

Dear Friends,

At Governing Body last week, there was an important debate about the future of ordained ministry in the Church in Wales. We face some startling statistics.

A quarter of our current serving clergy are aged over 60, and less than 10% are under 40. This means that we shall have problems in the near future as clergy begin to retire in large numbers, and yet we still have the business of the Church to run, and the leadership of ordained ministry has a key role to play in that.

When I delivered my address to you at the AGM last year I asked that we go back to basics. It was my first AGM and I hadn’t been in the Benefice very long but my over-riding impression was that we needed to spend much more time as a staff team and as a benefice thinking together, praying together and then gradually, and I suspect slowly moving forward together in a more strategic manner. As I said last year, slow streams run deep and we need time to look in depth at the problems and the opportunities that are facing us before we can be confident in moving forward.

And clearly we have got to move forward together.