Meet the Team

Ordained Ministries Development Officer (IME2 Coordinator): Rev'd Dwayne Engh, e-mail

Dwayne has worked in the Diocese of Derby since 2021.

Before becoming the Ordained Ministries Development Officer, Dwayne served in the parish of St Mary Magdalen, Chapelfields in Coventry.  Before being ordained, he was an educator and musician.

IME2 Administrator: Marietta Forman, e-mail

Marietta has worked for the diocese over many years.

Before becoming PA to the Director of DM&M and Ordained Ministries Development Officer, Marietta supported the former Bishop of Repton, Humphrey Southern, as his personal assistant.

Dates for Ordination 2024

Deacons: Sunday 30 June 2024 at 10.45am

Priests: Saturday 29 June 2024 at 4.00pm

Dates for Ordination 2025

Deacons: Sunday 29 June 2025 at 10.45am

Priests: Saturday 28 June 2023 at 4.00pm

Downloadable resources

Resources for CURATES:

For 2023 & 2024 Cohorts - NOT Applicable for 2022 cohort

• Formational Qualities - 'IME 2 Priest qualities and evidence (from autumn 2022)'
• Assessment of Curates in IME2
• 2023 - 2024 Assessment Checklist
• Curacy Handbook 2024
• Curacy Portfolio & Assessment Guidebook 2024
• IME2 CURACY Learning Plan - QUALITIES

• Year 1 of Curacy Training Programme 2024-2025

• National Safeguarding (online) training

Additional Lay Report Forms for 2023 Cohort:

• Year 1 Lay Report - QUALITIES
• Year 2 Lay Report - QUALITIES
• Year 3 Lay Report - QUALITIES
• Schools Report - QUALITIES
• Parish Safeguarding Officer Report - QUALITIES
• Annual Self Evaluation

2022 cohort ONLY - NOT Applicable for 2023 & 2024 cohorts

• Formation Criteria 
• 2023 - 2024 Assessment Checklist
• Curacy Handbook 2021
• Curacy Handbook 2022
• Curacy Portfolio & Assessment Guidebook 2021
• Curacy Portfolio & Assessment Guidebook 2022
• THE Learning Plan

• Year 1 of Curacy Training Programme 2023-2024
• Year 2 of Curacy Training Programme 2023-2024
• Year 3 of Curacy Training Programme 2023-2024

• Year 2 of Curacy Training Programme 2024-2025
• Year 3 of Curacy Training Programme 2024-2025

• National Safeguarding (online) training

Additional Lay Report Forms:

• Year 1 Lay Report
• Year 2 Lay Report
• Year 3 Lay Report
• Schools Report
• Parish Safeguarding Officer Report
• Annual Self Evaluation 

General Template forms:

• Leading Worship Feedback Form
• Preaching Feedback Form
• Self-evaluation Leading Worship
• Self-evaluation Preaching (or similar)
• Supervision Preparation Form
• Record of Supervision Form

Resources for ALL TRAINING INCUMBENTS:

• Good Practice for Training Incumbents (national)
• Supervision Compendium 2024

• Training Incumbent Code of Practice 

• Working Agreement Template
• Working Agreement guidance notes

TI Assessment Reports for 2023 Cohort and onwards - NOT Applicable for 2021 and 2022 cohorts

• Formational Qualities - 'IME 2 Priest qualities and evidence (from autumn 2022)'
• Assessment of Curates in IME2
• Training Incumbent Report - Part 1 of 2
• Training Incumbent Report at the End of Deacon'sYear - Part 2 of 2
• Training Incumbent Report at the End of Curacy - Part 2 of 2

TI Assessment Reports for 2021 and 2022 cohorts - NOT Applicable for 2023 cohort onwards

• Training Incumbent Report at the End of Deacon's Year (Pre-Priesting) PART 1
• Training Incumbent Report at the End of Deacon's Year (Pre-Priesting) PART 2
• For those curates ordained 2021 or 2022: Training Incumbent Year 2 Report (Please use the same document as last year and fill in the 'Year 2' sections) 
• For those curates ordained 2021 or 2022: Training Incumbent Report at End of Curacy PART 2

Why use A Church Near You?

A Church Near You is a fantastic, free resource available to all Church of England churches.

You A Church Near You entry will often appear at the top of Google / Bing searches for churches in your area.

Remember, that once people find your ACNY page, you will have about 7 seconds to grab them, so it's vital that your page has at least up-to-date contact details listed. Not doing so is effectively the same as turning people away at the door!

A Church Near You is also where the Find a Church links point to on this website.

But A Church Near You is so much more than a directory listing - you can save yourself a lot of money by using your ACNY pages as your church's main website! See how St Peter's Chellaston does this.

It doesn't matter if you already have a URL (web address) for your church, you can direct that straight to your ACNY page.

There is lots of online support available, as well as support from the diocesan Communications Team.

Being your ACNY editor also gives you access to a whole range of resources you can use in your church, on your website and on social media etc. 

>> How to become an approved editor of a church’s site

>> Get help with A Church Near You

>> Training webinars for editors on A Church Near You 

Whilst many churches have been using social media to engage with congregations, the Benefice of Crich and South Wingfield has been reaching out using smart speakers!

CSW Digital Church is the brainchild of parishioner Jim Morton (pictured with Revd Ian Whitehead).

He feels called by God to ordained ministry within the Church of England and is currently studying on the Diocese of Derby Discipleship Training Programme.

Jim currently manages the benefice’s social media ministry on Facebook and A Church Near You.

He created CSW Digital Church, using his own time, resources, creativity, and skills. What started as a hobby by teaching himself new online skills, has turned into a successful ministry. 

This is an exciting new ministry under the guidance of Revd Ian Whitehead. CSW Digital Church represents and is part of the Benefice of Crich and South Wingfield.

Following the closure of our churches in April 2020, Jim felt that God had set him a task.

That task was to take the Gospel to our existing church community, and beyond. 

He felt it was important to make prayer available to everyone and he was inspired by the ministry of Jesus.

CSW Digital started out as a YouTube channel but soon grew into a three-times-a-day prayer podcast on Soundcloud.

He then ventured into special services on Sundays.

Jim wanted to make the message of Jesus as accessible as possible during these difficult times so he learnt the skills needed to create an Amazon Alexa app.

Since April 2020, CSW Digital Church has had more than 1,500 listeners from all corners of the globe.

Currently, Jim is working on a project to build a children’s ministry, called CSW for Kids.

If you have an Alexa, give CSW Digital Church a try now. Just say “Alexa, open Digital Church”.

Young People are key members of our churches and our local communities.

Their energies, opinions and their commitment to serve is an invaluable resource that many churches in our diocese are fortunate to enjoy. 

Lots of churches are looking for new ways to engage with young people in their community and the Board of Education is here to provide help, training and advice.

101 Fun ideas for working with Young People – An excellent download resource from Bath & Wells: 101 fun ideas for working with young people

Dare2engage is a network of teachers and practitioners in 16-19 education who share a common aim to develop new  and innovative resources for RE and spiritual development. They have an excellent website with lots of ideas and resources.   

42 – Urban Saints   A 42-day devotional from Urban Saints to encourage a deeper relationship with God, great for those at the start of their journey with Christ, or those who would like some time of refreshment:  42 – Urban Saints

Mimic – Urban Saints   Do you want to learn to live like Jesus? Do you want to be a world changer? This is a great FREE discipleship course from Urban Saints, encouraging our young people to become who God wants them to be. Mimic

Light is Scripture Union’s range of resources to help you run fun, flexible and exciting Bible-based sessions for children and young people. Perfect for Sunday School and Junior Church settings, Light equips you with all you need to teach and disciple your groups in a way that works for you.   What is Light?

Light-Live As well as print resources Scripture Union has tons of FREE downloadable items- all you need to do is register and Log-In. Live-Life

The Collective   A new free Christian worship album which is absolutely fantastic. Worth the download.   The Collective

In need of some faith stretch and challenge? Keen to take your disciple-making to the next level?  Then download the FREE Live Life 1-2-3 app to get ‘tooled up’ with some practical disciple-making training and devotionals. Great for you and for teenagers or adults you want to encourage in faith. Live Life 1-2-3

Youth Group Games App – The Best Free Resource Ever?
Know when you’re desperately looking for a last minute game for your youth group, and your brain has shut down… Well, the Diocese of Drown and Dromore in Ireland, has produced a completely free app available on iOS, Android and Windows platforms, with more the 150 tried and tested games ideas. And there’s no catch   Youth Games App

WW 1 Resources For use with schools, and church children’s and youth groups in the Diocese of Derby.  This resource booklet [PDF] provides some pointers to where clergy and other leaders can access resources on WW1 and provides some links to web-based information on the topic of WW1.

UKYouth ha developed a free resource on mental health and well-being for use with young people. You can get a free downloadable copy via the link   UK Youth-Mental Health Resource

The Children’s Society has released six youth group sessions from a faith perspective to help youth workers unpack key topics such as identity, sexting, mental health, healthy relationships, and life online, empowering your young people to support themselves and their peers.

It’s free, ready and waiting at:
www.childrenssociety.org.uk/youth

ROOTS

Each week, ROOTS offers ways for children and young people to get to know and think about one of the readings from the Revised Common Lectionary – and to explore how it relates to their everyday lives.

Roots resources

On 17 March 2016 at St John's School Of Mission in Bramcote, ten speakers delivered a session each on an essential concept in youth ministry.

The training event, for workers and volunteers was co-ordinated by Alistair Langton, from the Diocese of Derby, and Sally Nash from the Midlands Centre for Children, Youth and Mission (MCYM). 

The event was partnered by Southwell & Nottingham Diocese, the Methodist Church and Youth for Christ.

The event also celebrated ten years of the Grove Youth series of booklets.

These sessions are available to view on YouTube and links to each are highlighted below.

Session 1 – Reflective Practice – Paul Nash

Session 2 – Core Principles – Alistair Langton

Session 3 – Anti-oppressive Practice – Nigel Pimlott

Session 4 – Lifestyle Development Theory – Elaine Jones

Session 5 – Facilitating Learning – Nigel Roberts

Session 6 – The Naomie Planning Tool – Linda Hopkins

Session 7 – Leadership – Liz Dumain

Session 8 – The Drama Triangle – Sarah Fregado

Session 9 – the Dynamic Cycle – Jo Whitehead

Session 10 – Marker Posts and Shelters – Sally Nash

Safeguarding Training courses are advertised in the safeguarding training section.

Why do I need to do it?

It might seem like an additional piece of paper/admin, but the reality is that IF there was to be a serious accident, a court of law could want to know what precautions you had put in place to help prevent such an accident.

You cannot completely eradicate risk, obviously, but the law requires us to protect people as far as “reasonably practicable”.

Having a completed risk assessment in your file is one way that you could show that you had done this. (Of course you need to act on it too!)

How will I do it? 

Simply download the advice pack below and follow the easy to use guidelines.

Download Risk Assesment Advice for Youth Childrens Groups in the Diocese of Derby [PDF]

Download a simple risk assessment form [PDF]

Are you involved with leading children’s or youth work in your church – either on a Sunday or during the week? Do you sometimes wish you had more expertise or more ideas or just more inspiration?

For some time now, cathedrals have been struggling with getting Facebook to recognise that they are charities in the absence of a registered charity number. 

Rochester Cathedral has finally managed to get the donation button to work without having to resort to using the details of a related registered charity.  

‘This is the process Rochester Cathedral used to get its Facebook donation button working.

In order to complete a Facebook Donation application:

1. Assign “non-profit” in the category section of the organisation’s Facebook Page
2. Apply to Facebook via their donate/sign-up page
3. Submit documents: 

• tax ID to verify charitable tax exemption status
• proof of identity of CEO/executive director, address and personal details 
• proof of address (utility statement) 
• bank details and proof of account (recent statement)
• Additionally, Facebook requested proof of applicant’s identity.

4. Update About Page on Facebook to include:

• mission statement
• what the cathedral supports
• goals and how the cathedral plans to achieve them
• complete address and contact details
• link to website
• link to cathedral's policies.

It’s also been pointed out by Jonathan de Bernhardt Wood, the CofE’s National Giving Adviser, that there are gift aid issues with Facebook Donate (on which the Charity Tax Group is working) so it is recommended that a link to the cathedral’s online giving provider is a pinned comment on services streamed through Facebook. 

See https://www.churchofengland.org/more/church-resources/digital-labs/labs-learning-webinars for various webinars on navigating the digital world, including one on receiving online donations.