Biggest investment in Church's history, with focus on support for churches in lowest income communities and safeguarding.

The following is the transcript of a talk given at the Solaris Executive Leadership Academy by Alan Smith, First Church Estates Commissioner, The Church Commissioners for England, on 28 May 2025.

The Church of England Pensions Board ('the Board’) has published its 2024 Annual Review, highlighting the progress made in growing its pension funds and offering greater choice and support to members as it approaches its’ 100th anniversary in 2026.

Responsible investing in the age of Climate Change and Artificial Intelligence - The role of the Christian Investor.

Talk by Alan Smith, First Church Estates Commissioner, to the 2024 Church Investors Group Conference on 20 November, 2024.

The Church Commissioners for England have announced their support for an activist investor campaign targeting ExxonMobil.

The Church Commissioners for England have been named best Public Pension Fund and best in Impact Investing at the IPE (Investment & Pensions Europe) Conference and Awards 2020.

The Church Commissioners for England welcomes today’s Crown appointment of Marsha de Cordova MP as Second Church Estates Commissioner, succeeding Andrew Selous.

The Board of Governors of the Church Commissioners has warmly welcomed the report of the independent Oversight Group, the recommendations from which will shape the new Fund for Healing, Repair and Justice. 

For 2,000 years Christians have shared the gospel around the world, as Jesus commissioned his disciples to do, and will continue to do so

A memorial event at which families of those killed in the devastating Brumadinho disaster shared testimonies and prayers has catalysed investors to take further steps in recognition of the profound risks caused by tailings facilities.