Category: Archived

PARISH BUYING

Each year our treasurers, administrators, wardens, and PCCs make buying decisions for their churches which add up to over £147 million across the Church.  To help with all these procurement decisions, the Parish Buying team have put together some buying tips from the experts to help you make the most of your budgets.

Procurement Top Ten Tips The aim of these top tips, and of Parish Buying as a whole, is to save the Church £10,000,000 a year through better procurement decisions; avoiding high costs, misleading contracts, and unnecessary spending

And it doesn’t stop with advice. All Parish Buying contracts are carefully vetted by their Procurement team, with over 55 years combined experience, to ensure your church gets the best deal. You can access all of these contracts by registering for free on the Parish Buying website, or contacting the team on 0800 368 0887 or

Faculty application system now available online

Posted on 4th January, 2016

We are now able to offer the option of applying online for faculties or List B (archdeacon’s) permissions. A guidance note on the online system and how to register is available here:http://www.oxford.anglican.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Online-Faculty-Application-System-guidance-note.pdf

We are still able to accept applications via email and post, however, we hope that you find the online system a useful way to track your application and submit documents.

The “Just Pray” video

produced by the Anglican Church

(which almost made it to cinema screens)

can be seen here.

You can help ensure children are engaging with the Bible in an innovative and richly immersive way…

• If you’re a parent or grandparent, Auntie or Uncle, why not share Guardians of Ancora with the children in your family and get them engaging with the Bible in this new and innovative way?
• If you work with children in churches or schools you could share Guardians of Ancora with the children in your groups and help to bring the Bible to life for them.
• If you’re helping to run any mission work this summer, perhaps you could introduce the children to the game or even incorporate it into your programme?
• If you don’t have your own children or you’re not involved in children’s work yourself, perhaps there are others you could share Guardians of Ancora with who would love to have a resource like this to use.
• And whatever your situation, why not share the game with your church so that as many children as possible can discover the incredible adventures of the Bible?

To download Ancora, go to the Scripture Union Website: http://www.scriptureunion.org.uk/8.id

Stage-Fright is a theatre company which explores the thin places between heaven and earth, life and art, faith and theatre.

Their latest piece is called ‘EPICS in moderation’
Stage-Fright presents a series of happenings that changed the world. Witness the epic heroes of ordinary life standing awkwardly beside the pompous demigods of history. A variety of vicissitudes boiled down into sweet sticky moments.