COMMENT / Throughout the year churches across the country open their doors to people of all ages, for services, weekday clubs and vital community projects.

Joanne Grenfell, lead bishop for Safeguarding, opens the debate on the Reporting Code of Practice, a new Safeguarding code of practice.

Joanne Grenfell, lead bishop for Safeguarding, opens the debate on Managing Allegations Code of Practice, a new Safeguarding code of practice.

FEATURE / This summer, St Albans Diocese was awarded a £1.75 million grant, as part of the Archbishops’ Council Strategic Development Funding stream.

FEATURE / Latest figures show a 22% increase in people selected to train for the priesthood over the last two years, with a 32% increase in young people.

A local church is to broadcast a carol service directly into cells across prisons in the UK to bring hope over the Christmas period. 

FEATURE / The Church of England’s digital communications team has trained more than 200 parishes in social media and writing for the web.

More than £400,000 has been saved over the past 12 months by members of food clubs, or low cost food shops, run by Church of England churches in just one town.

Churches are hosting activities from curry nights to community barbecues as part of a summer holiday scheme that is expected to feed more than 1,000 children in one diocese alone.

The restoration of an early 20th century church clock has brought joy to a parish after it was silent for more than 15 years.