The Charity Commission has issued guidance to charities on how to avoid fraud and cyber crime. This is relevant to PCCs, who are recognised as charities, even if currently excepted from registration. Guidance from the Charity Commission Protect your charity…
The Churches’ Legislation Advisory Service have updated their guidance on waste collection for churches and under what circumstances charges may apply. In short, waste from places of religious worship is regarded as domestic waste, and authorities with waste collection duties…
The Church of England has published the 2025 Parochial Fees for marriages, funerals, burials, churchyard monuments, and other miscellaneous matters. They are available from the Life events parochial fees and guidance webpage. For further guidance on the legal administrative aspects…
Parish life is often busy with local church leaders needing quick and easy access to resources. We’ve dedicated a new section of Parish Resources to the legal aspects of managing life events. With the aim of being a quick reference…
It has been over a decade since “Keep or Bin…? The Care of Parish Records” was last published by the Church of England Records Management Team. This document is no longer meeting the record-keeping and retention requirements of 2024, leading…
The Church of England has launched JOIN, an exciting new suite of resources to help churches, parishes and worshipping communities recruit volunteers with children and young people. The resource toolkit, which has been piloted in five dioceses with great success,…
We are pleased to release a newly developed “Guide for PCCs applying to be registered with the Charity Commission: Completing the online application” PDF. This guidance has been produced in collaboration with the Charity Commission and aims to support those…
The Charity Commission has published guidance on Accepting, refusing and returning donations to your charity. There can be occasions when, by law, trustees must refuse or return a donation. In other circumstances, trustees may decide it is in their charity’s…
The Parish Resources website has been providing support for churches on governance, administration and giving since 2012. In response to the vision and strategy for the Church of England in the 2020s, Parish Resources will be undergoing phased redevelopment with…
All PCCs are charities and their trustees are required to report any Serious Incidents, both safeguarding and non-safeguarding, to the Charity Commission. On 1 January 2019 the Church launched bespoke guidance, approved by the Charity Commission, to support PCCs to…