clergy housing
There must be security around clergy housing, pay, pensions, and retirement, if we want to enable new vocations, and improve clergy well-being.
..SO Can we have a CofE-wide commitment to best practice in clergy housing next?
e Six years in diocesan administration, running the synod department, working on clergy housing, pastoral reorganisation and diocesan communications.
• Improved standard of clergy housing
• Clergy Housing Committee
Much of what is debated at synod has an impact on these groups, including safeguarding, social care and even clergy housing.
• Acting Clergy Housing Manager –
• Member of the Clergy Housing
months as Interim Clergy Housing Manager,
Investment in clergy housing to aid wellbeing.
I think we should be dialoguing together on how we support and develop our leadership, and this would include investment in clergy housing, peer to peer reflection, safeguarding, and improving frameworks for chapter and shared learning.
I have also raised questions on various matters, recently around what benefit the Net-Zero commitments are having on clergy housing.
Questions around the adequacy of stipends, the future of pensions, and the provision and maintenance of clergy housing can all add considerably to the pressures clergy face.
Liverpool Diocese is widely recognised as having some deep-seated failings around decent clergy housing, and in 2020/21 we lost Fellfeld, the beautiful house in the Lake District given to us and our families as an affordable place to go on holiday.