PCCs are charities. Income tax which has been paid on donations to churches can be recovered from HMRC. The process for recovering this money is called Gift Aid. Gift Aid is surprisingly easy to use.

Following an update last month on the membership of the Living in Love and Faith Project Board, membership of the three working groups has now been confirmed. The three working groups are looking at ...

We want to encourage you to make wider, more imaginative and more strategic use of your church building, opening it up to all in your community and giving people new reasons to cross the threshold. We ...

Access full-text versions of our Services of Daily Prayer, which are available in both Contemporary (Common Worship) and Traditional (Book of Common Prayer) forms and for all times of the day. You can ...

The first verse of ‘We are marching in the light of God’ is sung followed by the Blessing and Dismissal from the chancel step, and then the whole congregation go out singing the rest of the hymn. At ...

Our service for the Fifth Sunday of Easter is from St Chad's Welbourn, in the Diocese of Lincoln. The Ven Dr Justine Allain-Chapman will lead a service of morning prayer from this beautiful church, ...

The effects of mental health problems are huge, and given the challenging times we are living in with coronavirus, it's more important than ever that we take steps to support good mental health. To ...

The Malines Conversations Group, an informal Anglican-Roman Catholic dialogue group which seeks to repeat the spirit of the original Malines conversations of the 1920s, met in Helsinki from 20 to 26 ...

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If you are affected by any of the content below or need access to support, please contact the Safe Spaces helpline by calling 0300 303 1056 or by visiting this Church of England webpage, where ...

The Bishop of Bristol, Vivienne Faull, and the Bishop of Ramsbury, Andrew Rumsey, who are the Church of England's joint lead bishops for Cathedrals and church buildings, have issued the following ...

Jackie Jones tells of how she came back to church after watching online services broadcast by her local parish during the Covid lockdowns How I came back to faith was quite extraordinary really. I ...