Warning: the potential effects of clergy cuts on communities' mental health
Many thanks to a Save The Parish supporter in Penwith deanery - Jonathan Harradine - who has drawn our attention to You Are Not Alone in Feeling Lonely , a recent report by Age UK . Mr Harradine is a Research Fellow at York University in the Health Science Faculty, which contributed to this report. Its message is particularly relevant as 'Oversight Ministers' - clergy overseeing ever larger numbers of parishes - become an increasing reality in Cornwall. Isolation leads to mental health issues: people need local contact, the report says. Click here to read it. "I think the insights in this report align well with Save The Parish's objectives, and highlight the need for the Church to recognise that it is not supporting its parishioners and its communities adequately in this important area for our Health and Wellbeing," Mr Harradine says. He believes it is particularly important to consider this ahead of the upcoming Penwith Deanery Planning Day (15th November) ...