Church of England national funding for features such as improved broadband and pooled administrative support have given rural parishes a boost.

The Church of England, education charity Teach First and the Chartered College of Teaching are today launching the new Rural Teaching Partnership.

The Church Commissioners for England today reiterated support for the climate-related shareholder resolution, filed against the board of ExxonMobil, and calls on Exxon not to block the resolution going to a vote in 2020. 

Statements regarding BBC File on Four Blackburn Cathedral case
 

The Church of England Pensions Board has today published its Annual Report and Accounts for 2017, and the Report and Accounts for each of the four pension schemes of which the Board is the corporate trustee.

COMMENT / The Church of England's Chief Education Officer warns that schools must not be run on the same logic as supermarkets, ahead of a symposium at Lambeth Palace.

COMMENT / The Church of England's Chief Education Officer explains what the Church is doing to address challenges for rural schools.

An outdoor prayer service started under lockdown at an Oxfordshire church has attracted more than 100 people and revived interest in a rural church.

'Our hope is that others will catch this vision and be willing to share our mission – to provide homes and build communities where people love to live'

Bishop Guli Francis-Dehqani, the Church of England's Bishop for Housing, looks back on a year since the publication of Coming Home, the report of the Archbishops' Commission on Housing Church and Community.

 

NEWS / The Church Commissioners for England published today financial results for 2017 and the year’s Annual Report.