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The Revd Malcolm Ainscough, Rector of Hasland and Vicar of Temple Normanton, Diocese of Derby, will retire with effect from 5th June 2017. Mr Ainscough will continue to live in the Diocese after retirement.  

The Revd David Ashton, Chaplaincy Services Manager at Derby Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Diocese of Derby, retired with effect from 18th December 2016. 

The Revd Canon Alan Harper, Priest-in-Charge of Kirk Langley and Mackworth All Saints and of Mugginton and Kedleston and Bishop's Officer for Prayer and Worship, Diocese of Derby, will retire with effect from 17 February. He will be appointed Canon Emeritus of Derby Cathedral in retirement. 

To view and book on one of our Safeguarding training courses, please go to our list of training events here.

Bookings can also be made at www.DerbySafeguarding.eventbrite.com 

Safeguarding training can raise sensitive issues. If you want to talk to a trainer prior to attending a course please contact the Safeguarding Team.

The Pathway to Safeguarding Training document explains more about the training system and gives examples of who needs to complete which training course.

Resourcing God's mission in our parishes

"Every generous act of giving, with every perfect gift, is from above, coming down from the Father of lights" James 1:17

As we learn to live with Covid-19 and build back following the struggles we faced with the pandemic,
we fully understand that live in challenging times.

As a diocese, we want to assure you that we will continue to support you in any way we can,
in particular with the financial constraints many face in parishes.

See also:

>> On the money On the money is a new publication explaining diocesan finances. Please take a look.

>> The Parish Giving Scheme

To download a copy of the Clergy Housing Guide please click here

For enquiries regarding clergy housing please contact the Property Team

email: propertyteam@derby.anglican.org

Tel: 01332 388650

>> Download a printable map of Dove and Derwent Deanery here (suitable for A4 and A3) [JPG]

>> Download a printable map of the Archdeaconry of Derbyshire Peak and Dales from this page.

Welcome to the Dove and Derwent Deanery!

We are part of the Derbyshire Peak and Dales Archdeaconry.

Archdeacon: The Ven. Nicky Fenton - nicky.fenton@derby.anglican.org    

Area Dean: Revd Dr James Hughes - james.t.hughes@btopenworld.com

Assistant Area Dean:  Revd Stella Greenwood

Archdeaconry Deputy Warden: Kate Gee

Dove and Derwent Benefices

1. Ambergate and Heage (Parishes of St. Anne, Ambergate; Heage)
2. Belper Christ Church with Turnditch (Parishes of Christ Church Belper; Turnditch)
3. Belper (Parish of Belper) (Three churches - Belper St Peter Parish Church; St Mark Openwoodgate; St. Swithin) 
4. Duffield and Little Eaton (Parishes of Duffield; St. Paul, Little Eaton)
5. Etwall, Egginton, Dalbury, Sutton-on-the-Hill and Trusley (Parishes of Etwall; Egginton; Dalbury; Sutton on the Hill; Trusley)
6. Hazelwood, Holbrook and Milford (Parishes of Hazelwood and Milford; Holbrook)
7. Hilton with Marston on Dove, Hatton, Boylestone and Church Broughton (Parishes of Hilton with Marston on Dove; Hatton; Boylestone; Church Broughton)
8. Kirk Langley and Mackworth; Mugginton and Kedleston; Longford; and Long Lane (Parishes of Kirk Langley; Mackworth (All Saints); Mugginton and Kedleston; Longford; Long Lane)
9. The South Dales (Parishes of Alkmonton; Cubley; Doveridge; Marston Montgomery; Somersal Herbert; Sudbury; Scropton)

>> Spotlights on parishes in Dove and Derwent Deanery

Dove and Derwent Deanery Synod - 2025

Tuesday, 15 July 2025

Wednesday, 19 November 2025

>> Spotlights on parishes in Peak Deanery

Our benefices:

1. Bakewell, Ashford in the Water with Sheldon and Rowsley (to include Over Haddon) 

2. Hathersage with Bamford and Derwent, and Grindleford 

3. Baslow and Eyam (including Foolow) 

4. Beeley and Edensor 

5. Youlgreave, Middleton, Stanton-in-Peak and Birchover 

6. Hope, Castleton and Bradwell 

7. Longstone, Curbar and Stoney Middleton (including Wardlow) 

8. Edale 

9. Tideswell (to include Wormhill, Cressbrook, Litton and Millers Dale) 

10. The White Peak Group (including Taddington, Chelmorton, Monyash, Hartington, Biggin and Earl Sterndale) 

11. Buxton with Burbage and King Sterndale (including Harpur Hill, Buxton, St Mary the Virgin and Buxton St Anne) 

12. Buxton, Trinity Church (private Trinitarian Chapel) 

13. Chapel-en-le-Frith 

14. Fairfield 

15. Peak Forest and Dove Holes 

16. Hadfield - held in plurality 

17. Charlesworth and Gamesley

18. Hayfield and Chinley with Buxworth 

19. Glossop - held in plurality 

20. Holy Trinity, Dinting Vale

21. New Mills 

22. Whitfield (including Whitfield St James and Whitfield St Luke)

>> Download a printable map of Derby City Deanery here (suitable for A4 and A3) [JPG]

>> Download a printable map of the Archdeaconry of Derby City and South Derbyshire from this page.

Welcome to the Derby City Deanery!

We are part of the Derby City and South Derbyshire Archdeaconry.

Archdeacon: The Ven. Matthew Trick - matthew.trick@derby.anglican.org 

Area Dean: Revd Sarah Watson - sarah.watson@derby.anglican.org 

Assistant Area Dean:  Revd Mina Munns - mina@stalkmunds.org.uk

Assistant Area Dean: Revd Susie Curtis - susie.curtis@derby.anglican.org 

Deanery Lay Chair: Madelaine Goddard

Secretary: Sue Hidderley-Burton – sue.hidderley-burton@derby.anglican.org 

Treasurer: Hugh Craig

Archdeaconry Deputy Warden: Vacant

Derby City Deanery is made up of all the parishes in the city of Derby including Derby Cathedral, BMOs and chaplaincies. With over 250,000 inhabitants, it has about a quarter of the population of the diocese. The population is culturally diverse with many faiths represented. The Deanery has many characteristics in common with other inner cities such as having more than half the areas of deprivation within the diocese.

Derby City Benefices

1. Derby; The Cathedral Church of All Saints (The Parish of Derby Cathedral Church of All Saints)
2. Allestree St. Edmund and Darley Abbey (Parishes of Allestree; Darley Abbey)
3. Allestree St. Nicholas (Parish of St. Nicholas Allestree)
4. Alvaston (Parish of Alvaston)
5. Boulton (Parish of Boulton)
6. Breadsall (Parish of Breadsall)
7. Chaddesden St. Mary (Parish of Chaddesden)
8. Chaddesden St. Philip with Derby St. Mark (Parishes of Chaddesden, St. Philip; Derby, St. Mark)
9. Chellaston (Parish of Chellaston)
10. Derby St. Alkmund and St. Werburgh (Parish of St. Alkmund and St. Werburgh Derby) (This excludes St. Werburgh’s Bishop’s Mission Order)
11. St. Anne Derby (Parish of St Anne, Derby)
12. Derby St. Barnabas (Parish of St. Barnabas, Derby)
13. Derby St. Bartholomew (Parish of Derby St. Bartholomew)
14. Derby St. Luke (Parish of Derby St. Luke)
15. St. John the Evangelist, Derby (Parish of St. John the Evangelist, Derby)
16. Derby St. Paul (Parish of St. Paul, Derby)
17. Derby St. Peter and Christ Church with Holy Trinity (Parish of St. Peter and Christ Church with Holy Trinity, Derby)
18. Findern (Parish of Findern) (held in plurality with 30)
19. Littleover and Blagreaves (Parish of Littleover and Blagreaves) (including the Haven Chrisian Centre LEP)
20. Mackworth St. Francis (Parish of Mackworth St. Francis) (currently being managed by the St Werburgh Bishops Mission Order Group)
21. Mickleover and Radbourne (Parishes of All Saints, Mickleover; St. John the Evangelist Mickleover; Radbourne)
22. Normanton (Parish of Normanton-by-Derby)
23. Oakwood (Parish of Oakwood)
24. Pride Park, Wilmorton, Allenton & Shelton Lock (Parishes of Allenton and Shelton Lock; St. Andrew with St. Osmund, Derby)
25. Quarndon (Parish of Quarndon)
26. Sinfin (Parish of Sinfin)
27. Sinfin Moor (Parish of Sinfin Moor)
28. Spondon (Parish of Spondon)
29. Walbrook Epiphany (Parish of Walbrook Epiphany) (including St. Augustine Derby and St. Thomas Derby)
30. Willington (Parish of Willington) (held in plurality with 18)

Bishop’s Mission Order

Derby: St. Werburgh’s Bishop’s Mission Order

>> Spotlights on parishes in Derby City Deanery

Derby City Deanery Synod

Synod meetings in 2025

12 March 2025
22 May 2025
6 October 2025

The Deanery Synod is a gathering place for clergy and lay representatives in the deanery, where we can pray and take counsel together, supporting one another in mission, and co-ordinating our service and sharing of the Gospel.

Derby City Deanery Synod comprises approximately 50 deanery clergy and 125 lay representatives from all parishes (allocated according to the number of people on each parish church’s electoral roll). Most business is conducted in a combined meeting, but occasionally there are separate meetings for the House of Clergy and the House of Laity. Lay Representatives are elected within their parish to serve for three years.

The Deanery Synod provides a vital structural bridge between parochial church councils (PCCs) and Diocesan Synods, bringing together clergy and lay people from neighbouring parishes to discuss issues relating to mission and ministry in the local area. Sometimes it will make a formal decision, sometimes by means of a vote and a local concern raised in your Deanery Synod could find its way onto an agenda for debate by your Diocesan Synod and even by the General Synod.

The Deanery Synod is an important part of the CofE structure and culture. Members are elected by parishes, and the Deanery Synod in turn elects representatives to the Diocesan Synod. Deanery synod meetings are concerned with seeking God’s will for the mission of the church locally, so it needs to be Christ-centred, prayerful and open to the spirit speaking through all.

It can take strategic decisions to advance local mission and ministry, but it also serves the witness and mission of the wider church.

Potentially the work that deanery synods do at local level can help shape the church at national level for years to come.

Derby City Deanery Leadership Team

This team consists of the:

Area Dean and Assistant Area Dean(s)

Lay Chair, Secretary and Treasurer of Synod

Elected Lay and Clergy Representatives of Synod

Deanery Administrator and co-opted members.

The Deanery Synod is required to have a standing committee. The first Derby City Deanery Synod (held in September 2016) approved the proposal that our Deanery Leadership Team be the standing committee. 

One of its functions is to prepare the agenda for Deanery Synod and conduct any business between meetings that is required. 

It also has two other functions.  First, as the Mission and Pastoral Committee of the Deanery, supporting parishes in vacancy and taking an overview of the needs for mission and ministry in the Deanery.  It is also in a good position to deal with the legal issues as the new Deanery comes into being.

Second, it has the role of co-ordinating the mission of the church in the Deanery, supporting and developing the missional role of the Deanery.  In this capacity, the Deanery Leadership Team will take a leading role in writing any Deanery Mission Action Plan.

>> Download a printable map of Carsington Deanery here (suitable for A4 & A3) [JPG]

>> Download a printable map of the Archdeaconry of Derbyshire Peak and Dales from this page.

Welcome to the Carsington Deanery!

We are part of the Derbyshire Peak and Dales Archdeaconry.

Archdeacon: The Ven. Nicky Fenton - nicky.fenton@derby.anglican.org 

Area Dean: Vacant

Assistant Area Dean: Revd Phil Michell - phil.michell@live.co.uk

Archdeaconry Deputy Warden: Kate Gee

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 Carsington Benefices

1. Ashbourne with Mapleton with Ashbourne St John (Parishes of Ashbourne with Mapleton; Ashbourne St John) (Ashbourne St John is a private chapel)
2. Brailsford with Shirley, Osmaston with Edlaston and Yeaveley (Parishes of Brailsford; Shirley; Osmaston; Edlaston; Yeaveley)
3. Clifton in Plurality with Norbury with Snelston (Parishes of Clifton; Norbury; Snelston)
4. Darley, South Darley and Winster (Parishes of Darley; South Daley; Winster)
5. Fenny Bentley, Thorpe, Tissington, Parwich and Alsop-En-Le-Dale (Parishes of Alsop-En-Le-Dale; Fenny Bentley; Parwich; Thorpe; Tissington)
6. Hulland, Atlow, Kniveton, Bradley and Hognaston (Parishes of Atlow; Bradley; Hognaston; Hulland; Kniveton)
7. Matlock Bank and Tansley (Parishes of All Saints, Matlock Bank; Tansley)
8. Matlock Bath and Cromford (Parishes of St Mary Cromford; Matlock Bath)
9. Matlock, Dethick, Lea and Holloway (Parishes of Dethick, Lea and Holloway; Matlock (St Giles)
10. Wirksworth (Parishes of Bonsall; Bradbourne; Brassington; Carsington; All Saints, Elton; St James, Idridgehay; Kirk Ireton; Middleton; Wirksworth with Alderwasley)

>> Parish Spotlights for Carsington Deanery

Carsington Deanery Synod Meetings 2025

Tuesday, 1 July 2025

Thursday, 23 October 2025