Save The Parish - Cornwall

When the Church of England's General Synod met earlier this month, Save the Parish held a very successful ‘fringe’ event. STP Steering Committtee member Admiral Sir James Burnell-Nugent tells us more.... A range of Synod members, including John Spence, the Church of England’s Head of Finance, and his deputy came to hear what three of our financial scrutiny team had to say about finance and figures in the Church, and improving the husbandry of a charity's financial resources. We would love you to watch it for yourself – you can find it online at https://youtu.be/45nrep1IvWk First in the video, you can hear my introduction (1.30-5.30) dispelling the myth that diocesan ‘mega-parish’ schemes are necessary for financial reasons. The presentation shows how instead our parishes fund the dioceses, with more money coming upstream from the parishes to the dioceses, via parish share and from the Diocesan Stipends Funds (money generated for stipends by the ‘glebe' which was taken f