Save The Parish - Cornwall

Significant dissent emerged at today's Truro Diocesan Synod in St Erme, Cornwall, when more than one in five elected representatives either voted to send the 2025 budget back for further work or abstained. The budget passed comfortably eventually with 40 votes in favour. But nine people supported sending the budget back to the Diocesan Board of Finance (DBF) and three abstained.  This is the biggest challenge the Diocesan machine has received in recent years at the Synod. It is a sign that the dissent caused by controversial restructuring plans known as On The Way is growing, not receding. The now approved 2025 budget is deeply concerning: it proposes further heavy drains on reserves and no increase in clergy numbers. Click here to read more. Those who voted to send the budget back, or abstained, are not alone. Answers are needed, Bishop, please.  The budget draft states that the current drain on Diocesan reserves is not sustainable. How it will be financed in the future (othe...

The acting Bishop of Truro, the Rt Rev Hugh Nelson, has distributed a letter and a Frequently Asked Questions sheet on proposed new 'Strategic Rural Deans'. Unfortunately both his letter, and the FAQ are well nigh incomprehensible.  Save The Parish Cornwall looks forward to hearing from anyone who has managed to fathom what on earth this is all about.  Will these be new jobs? Or yet another layer of bureaucracy from an Episcopal College already proposing yet further central costs in its draft 2025 budget? Here's the letter.  And here's the Frequently Asked Questions sheet.