Clergy & Parish Handbook
This electronic handbook contains links to useful sources of information, guidelines and help with a range of church and people issues.
Select from the links below to see a full list of resources for that category.
- Child Protection
- Church administration
- Clergy (general)
- Clergy finance and employment
- Continuing Ministerial Development
- Diocesan Advisory Committee guidance documents
- Ecumenical
- External sources of advice on church buildings and regulations
- Forms
- Miscellaneous
- Pastoral Issues
- Pastoral Practice
- Pastoral Support
- Retired Clergy
- Vacancies - guidance for parishes
- Vocations
- Worship
Child Protection
- Answer form for referees
- Application and Self Declaration form
- Checklist for appointing staff or volunteers
- Consent form including statement of consent
- Example of parish policy
- Good practice guidelines
- Letter to referees
- Protecting All God's Children (House of Bishops Report 2004)
- Safeguarding Children - diocesan handbook 2009
- Vetting and Baring FAQ July 2009
- Vetting and Barring Briefing for Parishes October 2009
- Vetting and Barring Briefing Part 2 October 2009
- Vetting and Barring, Government Guidance, Oct 2009
- Volunteer agreement
Church administration
- Application for Advice Form
- Confirmtion parish Returns form
- Guidelines on maintaining parish records
- Just Employment
- Parochial fees 2009
Clergy (general)
Clergy finance and employment
- Car loan scheme application form 2009
- Car loan scheme for clergy and lay workers
- Clergy and licensed lay workers - pensions and divorce questions
- Clergy and licensed lay workers - pensions questions answered
- Clergy childcare voucher scheme
- Clergy deployment, remuneration and conditions of service
- Clergy Discipline Measure - code of practice
- Clergy Discipline Measure 2003 - complaints of misconduct - general information
- Clergy expenses and reimbursement
- Clergy parental benefits
- Clergy pay and conditions
- Clergy Pensions - The Facts
- Clergy Pensions - the Way Forward
- Clergy sickness - statutory notice form
- Clergy tax advice from the national Church
- Grants and fundraising - FAQs from Manchester Diocese
- Grants Handbook
- Guidelines for the professional conduct of the clergy
- Inland Revenue clergy working expenses agreement
- Parish Audit Pack 2009
- Parochial fees 2009
Continuing Ministerial Development
Diocesan Advisory Committee guidance documents
- Application for Advice Form
- Application form for a Graveyard Memorial
- Diocesan guidelines application for DAC advice
- Diocesan guidelines appointment of architects
- Diocesan guidelines banners
- Diocesan guidelines bats
- Diocesan guidelines bells
- Diocesan guidelines church fabric
- Diocesan guidelines Disability Discrimination Act
- Diocesan guidelines embroidery, linen & hangings
- Diocesan guidelines fine art
- Diocesan guidelines general directions on faculties
- Diocesan guidelines how to get your faculty
- Diocesan guidelines law and your church
- Diocesan guidelines memorial tablets in church
- Diocesan guidelines monuments in churchyards
- Diocesan guidelines paint specifications
- Diocesan guidelines prepare building project
- Diocesan guidelines Quinquennial inspection
- Diocesan guidelines sound systems and induction loops
- Diocesan guidelines stained glass windows
- Diocesan guidelines statement of significance
- Diocesan guidelines trees in churchyards
- Diocesan guidelines what to do with your Quinquennial Inspection report
- Diocesan guidelines window protection
Ecumenical
- 21 steps to encourage local mission and unity
- A Declaration of Ecumenical Welcome
- Anglican-Methodist Covenant - the Text
- Apostolic Pastoral Association
- Applying Canon B 43 in the context of the Anglican-Methodist Covenant
- Check list - for the application of Canon B43
- Churches designated under the Sharing of Church Buildings Act
- Churches in relationship with the Church of England
- Code of Practice for Canons B43 and B44
- Ecumenical participation in Ordinations
- Finance and LEPs - good practice
- How any CofE parish can share worship with Christians of other traditions
- How dioceses can authorise ministers of other churches for work in single-congregation LEPs
- How the Church of England shares in Local Ecumenical Partnership with other churches - Canon B44
- Involvement of other churches in the life of Church of England parishes
- Joint Confirmations - guidelines for good practice
- Local Ecumenical Projects - Canon B44
- Relations with other churches - Canon B43
- Salvation Army and Quakers - guidelines 2005
- Summary of Canons B1 to B42
- When ministers occupy houses belonging to other denominations
External sources of advice on church buildings and regulations
- Advice on funding and fundraising for buildings
- Archaeological requirements for works on churches and churchyards
- Asbestos and church properties
- Asbestos and organs
- Asbestos Campaign
- Asbestos health and safety issues
- Bats in churches, a management guide, 2008
- CofE Church Care website
- English Heritage Joint Lotteries
- Fire Risk assessment checklist and form
- Fire safety - a short guide
- Fire safety - small and medium places of assembly
- Fire safety checklist
- General guidelines making changes to a listed church
- Guidance for best practice for treatment of human remains excavated from Christian burial grounds in England
- Guidance on church security
- Guide for Burial Ground Managers
- Health and Safety guidance notes for churches from Ecclesiastical Insurance
- Listed Places of Worship Grant Scheme
- National Churches Trust
- National Churchwatch - safety guidance for churches and people
- Portable Appliance Testing
- Safe Use of Ladders and Stepladders
- Smoke-free regulations
- The Work at Height Regulations 2005
Forms
Miscellaneous
- Guidelines on maintaining parish records
- Instructions for submitting Children's events on website
- Manchester Diocesan Synod Standing Orders
- Smoke-free regulations
Pastoral Issues
- Deliverence Ministry - information from the Bishop's Advisory Group
- Problem phone calls - advice
- Promoting a Safe Church
- Protecting All God's Children (House of Bishops Report 2004)
- Responding to Domestic Abuse
Pastoral Practice
- Admission of baptised children to Holy Communion before confirmation
- Anglican Sources for tracing your Family History
- Archbishops Certificate in Youth Work
- Canons of the Church of England
- Child Friendly Church Award
- Child Protection - Protecting All God's Children
- Church copyright and performing rights
- Church Representation Rules 2006
- Churchwarden's Measure 2001 - a brief guide
- Confirmtion parish Returns form
- Data Protection a guide for parishes
- Data Protection guidance
- Foreign Nationals Marriage Guidance
- Handbook for Churchwardens and Parochial Church Councils
- Marriage in church after divorce
- Marriage in church after divorce - explanatory leaflet for inquirers
- Marriage in church after divorce - House of Bishops advice to clergy
- Marriage Measure - Notice to Clergy
- Marriage Measure 2008 - responding to parish enquiries
- Marriage Measure Application Form
- Marriage Measure guidance
- Parochial fees for 2007
- Personal safety - advice for clergy, churches and others from National Churchwatch
- Safeguarding Children - diocesan handbook 2009
- The Charities Act and the PCC - 3rd edition 2006
- Worker Employment Guidelines
Pastoral Support
- House guidance on vacancies
- National Churchwatch - safety guidance for churches and people
- Parsonage handbook
- Personal safety - advice and positive practical guidance
- Personal safety - clergy safety - advice from the Diocese of London
Retired Clergy
- Clergy retirement housing booklet
- Clergy retirement housing information
- Retired clergy fees code of practice
- Retired Clergy, clergy widow/ers pastoral care guidelines
Vacancies - guidance for parishes
Vocations
- Call Waiting - is God calling you to ordained ministry?
- Called to the Ministry (A guide to exploring vocation in the Diocese of Manchester)
- Clergy Appointments Advisor
- Exploring a vocation - who to talk to
- Exploring a vocation to ordained ministry
- Information for new ordinands
Worship
