from Save the Parish
Save the Parish (STP) welcomes today’s announcement from the Triennium Funding Working Group (TFWG) of a significant increase in support for the Church of England’s poorest parishes. This is a crucial step forward—one that reflects the tireless advocacy of our grassroots movement to restore the Church’s core mission: thriving parish ministry in communities across the nation. Save the Parish’s formal submission to the TFWG explicitly called for increasing LInC funding, and we are pleased to see our recommendations reflected in today’s announcement.
However, the Revd Marcus Walker, Chair of Save the Parish, expressed concerns about the implementation approach:
“Alleluia! The Church of England has decided to give some of the billions it was left to fund parish ministry back to poorer parishes. This is good news and we’re delighted the Church is listening to Save the Parish.
But it’s not all good: they’ve decided to tie that money up in their failed Vision and Strategy and make parishes dance like performing monkeys for the money that’s rightfully theirs. We had hoped they’d learned from the costly failures of the last decade not to do this.”