'Failed Wigan': this should be a game changer, writes Save The Parish's Marcus Walker
An evaluation of ‘Transforming Wigan’ - a controversial programme for change - has been published: click here to read an Executive Summary . This evaluation is an 'absolute shocker' and should be a game changer, writes Rev Marcus Walker of Save The Parish on Twitter. This is so important given how many other dioceses are implementing schemes following what we can safely call the Failed Wigan Model, he says. Sadly, the Diocese of Truro is one of these dioceses: click here to read more. The highlights of 'Failed Wigan'? £1.2 million wasted Weekly attendance 1/3 Annual giving 1/3 Deficit £56,000 to £295,666 In figures that is almost 600 people stopping going to church and £500,000 less given. Read the report here: https://d3hgrlq6yacptf.cloudfront.net/603eb0893e402/ What was the plan? Merge all the 33 parishes of Wigan into one super benefice with seven “parish hubs” (they love “hubs” in the new CofE). Slash the number of clergy from 24 to 15 (they actually o