Fees

PARISH FINANCE

Detailed guidance on parochial fees can be found in this Guide to Church of England Parochial Fees. Specific guidance on parochial fees produced by the finance team in the diocese is available here.

The current table of fees and returns forms can be found below:

2025

2024

Please return all DBF fees as soon as possible after the end of every month using the monthly return form above. It is also important that you send in a NIL return if there is no fee income for the month. Forms can be sent by email to fees@manchester.anglican.org or by post to:

St John’s House, 155-163 The Rock, Bury, BL9 0ND

For any payments that are made to the DBF by bank transfer, please quote your parish reference/fees e.g. R12345/Fees

A copy of the form should be retained by the parish for your records.

Please discourage clients/funeral directors from writing out personal cheques.

Claiming DBF Fees

The DBF recognises the importance of all Retired Clergy, Non-Stipendiary Clergy and Readers working across our diocese. To better support this vital ministry, the DBF has updated and amended the guidance and claim forms for claiming a fee from the diocese. This is to modernise the claim processes, removing the reliance on paper documents and increasing the speed of repayments and claims. The guidance below has been used for services conducted since January 2024. New claim forms will be issued annually, with the amounts claimable updated (see table below):

Fees Table

Type of service	DBF Fee 2025	Fee to clergy
05 – Marriage service	£247	£164.67
06 – Funeral service in church	£127	£84.67
07 – Burial in churchyard	£18	£12
08 – Burial in cemetery or cremation	£35	£23.34
09 – Burial of body in churchyard	£52	£34.67
10 – Burial of cremated remains c/yard	£67	£44.67
11 – Funeral No Service in Church	£127	£84.67
12 – Funeral Service at graveside	£127	£84.67
13 – Service at crematorium or cem	£199	£132.67
14 – Burial of body in churchyard	£52	£34.67
15 – Burial of cremated remains c/yard	£52	£34.67
33 – Service funeral director premises	£234	£156
34 – Cremation after FD premises	£35	£23.34
35 – Burial in cemetary committal only	£35	£23.34
Casual Duty service fee	N/A	£63.50