Resources for Clergy
On 4 May 2021, the long-trailed changes to the way marriages are registered come into force.
Clergy have already been sent links to the government's training pages.
Clergy may share the link to the online training with parish administrators – and it should be shared with churchwardens where the parish or benefice is in vacancy.
Register of Marriage Services,
Churches will need a new Register of Marriage Services which is now available to pre-order via this link:
Register of Marriage Services - Hardback (chpublishing.co.uk)
Obtaining the Marriage Document
GRO will be sending out very clear information about the marriage document and where clergy can get it from. The free on-line admin tool provided by the Church of England www.lifeeventsdiary.org will be updated to enable printing of the marriage document after 4th May.
Charge for Marriage Certificate
From May 4th Marriage Certificates will be issued by the Register Office and not the church, so couples should no longer be charged for a certificate. The Fees table , fees form and fees information for couples will be updated to reflect this change.
There is an FAQ regarding the changes available on the LRSA's website.
How will this impact the work and responsibilities as a member of the Clergy?
What won’t change:
- You will still be required to ensure couples meet the requirements to marry in your building.
- You will still be required to ensure couples complete the relevant preliminaries, i.e.: the calling of banns, issue of common or special licence or, where required, the prior attendance of the couple at the relevant register office to give their notices of marriage in the correct timescale.
- You will still be required to conduct pre-marriage checks and confirm that the details contained on the marriage document or marriage schedule are correct before the marriage proceeds.
- The marriage will still be performed by Church of England or Church in Wales rites.
- You will still use registration ink to complete the marriage schedule.
What will change:
- You will be required to create a marriage document or obtain the marriage schedule prior to the date of marriage.
- You will no longer complete the formal register for the marriages you solemnize (There will still be a register kept by you for the records of your church).
- You will no longer issue the legal marriage certificates.
- The completed marriage document or marriage schedule must be returned to the register office for the registration to take place in the electronic marriage register before a certificate can be issued.
- You will no longer need to complete quarterly returns for marriages which take place in your building.
- You will no longer be responsible for corrections in marriage registers. After the changes are introduced, all corrections to marriage entries will be carried out by the registration officers or GRO.
- The electronic register will also allow for the names of parents of the couple (mother / father / parent) to be included in the marriage entry instead of only their fathers’ names as is currently the case.
Time Out: suggestions and resources
We hope these ideas and resources will be helpful for reflection and self-care.
Some thoughts to help you use the time well
- Turn off your phone, unplug the doorbell – minimise technological interruption!
- Try to explain to anyone else in your house that you’re not available during this time
- If you’re doing this in your study, try not to sit at your desk
- Maybe light a candle to acknowledge ‘different’ time
- Try to gather anything you might need (ie ingredients, bits and pieces) in advance to avoid using the space in session
- This is YOUR time, to give you space and time with God.
Downloads:
Here be Dragons [PDF]
Come Home to your Hub [Word]
Wheel of Awareness diagram [Word]
Self-regulation diagram [Word]
Images of the diocese for prayer [PDF]
Journey of the last three months - ideas to express your experience [Word]
Let your God love you [Word]
Poems [Word]
Seasoned by Seasons extracts [PDF]
Chartres labyrinth [PDF]
Inhabit your body meditation: Download MP3 audio file or Listen online
Bread-making video [YouTube]
Bread - ideas and recipes [PDF]
Prayer walk during Covid [Word]
Welcome to IME2
"Flourish within God's call so that you may help others to do the same"
Meet the Team
Revd Susie Curtis - Ordained Ministries Development Officer (IME2 Coordinator)
Email: Susie.curtis@derby.anglican.org
Susie has served in the Diocese of Derby since 2018.
Susie brings to the role a wealth of experience of Ordained Ministry.
Ordained in Durham she then served in the Diocese for ten years in a variety of parish contexts as well as for five years as Chaplain to St John’s College Durham.
Since moving south she has been involved in supporting parishes in vacancy, supporting lay training and walking alongside people exploring a vocation to Ordained Ministry.
Marietta Forman - IME2 Administrator
Email: Marietta.Forman@derby.anglican.org
Marietta has worked for the diocese over many years.
Before becoming PA to the Ordained Ministries Development Officer, Marietta supported the former Bishop of Repton, Humphrey Southern, as his personal assistant.
Dates for Ordination 2027
Deacons: Sunday 20 June 2027 at 10.45am
Priests: Saturday 19 June 2027 at 4.00pm
Downloadable resources
Resources for CURATES:
For 2023, 2024 & 2025 Cohorts - NOT Applicable for 2022 cohort
- Formational Qualities - 'IME 2 Priest qualities and evidence (from autumn 2022)'
- Assessment of Curates in IME2
- 2025 - 2026 Assessment Checklist
- Curacy Handbook 2025
- Curacy Portfolio & Assessment Guidebook 2025
- 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 & 2025 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 2025-2026
- Year 2 of Curacy Training Programme 2025-2026
- Year 3 of Curacy Training Programme 2025-2026
- Year 1 of Curacy Training Programme 2024-2025
- Year 2 of Curacy Training Programme 2024-2025
- Year 3 of Curacy Training Programme 2024-2025
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:
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’s Ongoing Report
- Training Incumbent’s Pre Priesting Report
- Training Incumbent’s End of Curacy Report
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
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
This page is currently being updated, in the interim period please contact the Bishop's Office for further information 01332 840132.
Continuing Ministerial Development (CMD)
Revd Susie Curtis, Ordained Ministries Development Officer, has responsibility for the CMD programme for clergy.
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Dear Friends
I am happy to write that Bishop Alastair has commended me to the post of Chaplain to the Retired Clergy within the Diocese, assisted by my wife Rachel Mookerji. The Bishop is very keen to see that all the Retired Clergy are given all help, care and support particularly in their time of need, realizing how much time and effort they give to maintain the much cherished parish ministry within the Diocese. Our personal initiative will be to maintain the relationship with each other and to this end importantly praying and where necessary visiting them.
I am grateful my predeccessors have already established the link between the local Retired Clergy and the Retirement Officers so called the Deanery Representatives. We will continue with the tradition of an annual phone call to each one knowing how valuable this could prove pastorally for all of us. However, we believe the Pastoral Care of the Retired Clergy is of course primarily the responsibility of the local Parish Priest, and where necessary they would contact wither their Deanery Representatives, or us directly for any specialist care and support, and if any particular need arising we would then liaise with the Bishop.
We have been in the Diocese for over 30 years, and now happily retired and live in the Parish of Church Gresley in Repton Deanery. Our journey to this diocese began in the year 1985, when I served my title at the Parish Church St Lawrence, Heanor, and then moved to St James, Codnor, my first incumbency; in the same deanery stretching over 17 years; and which laid a firm foundation to our life and ministry in this country. We finally retired from the Parish Church of St Marks Winshill, in the Repton Deanery after having served the parish for over 13 years. It has been a priviledge to serve this diocese and now commended by the Bishop to serve the Retired Clergy in the diocese.
We have two sons Michael (Jr) married to Bryony and they have a daughter called Elsa and live in Norway, Noel married to Nathalie and have two children Noah and Yasmin, and live in London. by God'd grace they are all doing well in their respective families, and we all have a happy family bond.
We now joyfully look forward to serving our Retired Clergy friends within the diocese, and take this opportunity to wish you all a blessed year 2016, and may God bless is all richly with good health and happiness.
Regards
Revd Michael Mookerji
01283 335582
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“I do not understand my own actions. For I do not do what I want, but I do the very thing I hate.”
The pitfalls of ministry are many and various and when the going gets tough there is almost always a personal cost both to ourselves and those amongst whom our lives are set.
The Apostle’s frustration is rooted in an honest self-understanding, a recognition that alone we will adopt unhealthy or misconceived ways of living that take us away from the person God yearns for us to be.
Wellbeing is not an add-on.
Wellbeing is not an optional extra for those who have the time.
Wellbeing is not a matter for people less busy than us.
Wellbeing is a Gospel value, for it is about choosing to be the person God intends, indeed yearns for us to be… to have life and life in all its fullness.
Taking wellbeing seriously is a non-negotiable part of our ministerial lives if we are to flourish as God’s people and for those who have made ordination vows, live them out with integrity.
You will hopefully find resources here to help you do that.
They are intentionally diverse, as not everything will speak to everyone and they are not the solution to anyone’s problems in themselves, but a starting point offered to help each of us in our different contexts take responsibility for our own wellbeing.
Get in touch
These pages are constantly under review, so that we may all receive assistance and appropriate advice in a quickly changing ministerial environment.
We welcome your feedback. If there is information missing from these pages that you or others may find helpful, please contact and let us know: julie.fowler@derby.anglican.org | 01332 278172.
The Clergy Wellbeing Advisory Team
January 2024
Role descriptions were introduced into the diocese to complement and inform Ministerial Development Reviews (MDR), and are a requirement of the Ecclesiastical Offices (Terms of Service) Regulations 2009.
The following documents will help you write a role description which you are advised to develop after you have been in post for six months, and when you have met with your Archdeacon at the six month review point:
How to write a Role Description
Role Description Template Curate
Role Description Template Incumbent
Role Description Worked Example
Should you have any questions or queries regarding the development of your role description please contact Mandy Roberts at Derby Church House: 01332 388650, mandy.roberts@derby.anglican.org
Downloads:
Section 1: Common Tenure explained (Word)
Section 2: Starting and ending an appointment (Word)
Section 3: Stipend, Fees, Expenses, Grants and Pensions (Word)
Section 5: Personal and Professional Development (Word)
Section 6: Clergy holiday, rest periods, other time off and working time (Word)
Section 7: Family-friendly policies (Word)
Section 9: Discipline, capability and grievance procedure (Word)
Section 10: Equality and dignity at work (Word)
Other policies
The Ministerial Development Review Scheme
MDR is a shared process of reflection and discernment in which you and the reviewer assigned to you by the Bishop explore and articulate how your ministry is developing in your local context.
As disciples of Christ, we all seek to go on learning and growing in faith, and this is especially so for those of us who serve, lay and ordained, as leaders in the church. We do so in mutual relationship, as part of Christ’s body. The Ordinal speaks of a shared ministry, a working together within the Body of Christ. This implies a mutual accountability. Our wellbeing and further development in ministry invite regular reflection in changing times and contexts.
We pray that this will be a blessing both to you and to those you minister amongst. Your wellbeing as a person and as a priest is at the heart of this process. It is our hope that all clergy will find MDR both affirming and encouraging, as together we consider the part we play in God’s mission here in this Diocese of Derby. We hope that you will make the most of this opportunity so that your ministry can flourish and thrive.
The MDR scheme is co-ordinated by our Director of People and Ministry Development Claire Lees and administered by Julie Fowler at the Parish Support Office at Church House. Email: MDRadmin@derby.anglican.org
Your MDR
We are continuously looking to improve the MDR process, and building on the work done last year, have made some additional changes for this year which we hope will help.
Further information about these changes will be sent out to all who are due to have a full or interim review this year.
The documentation you will need to complete your MDR along with guides to help you through the process can be found below.
MDR Form 1 - Critical Friends Feedback [Word]
MDR Form 2 - Personal Reflection Form (Revised for 2025) [Word]
MDR Form 3 - Full Review Summary Note, Learning & Goals Development (Revised for 2025) [Word]
MDR Form 4 - Interim Review Summary (Revised Sept 2025) [Word]
New Online Forms 3 & 4
MDR ONLINE Form 3 - Full Review Summary Note, Learning & Development Goals: https://bit.ly/Full_MDR.
MDR ONLINE Form 4 - Interim MDR Summary: https://bit.ly/InterimMDR.
USER Guides
MDR User Guide 2025 [PDF]
MDR Reviewers Guide 2025 [PDF]
See also: Role Descriptions
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The Capability Procedure enables the bishop to address, through a fair and transparent process, the problems that arise when clergy fail, for whatever reason, to perform their duties to an acceptable standard. The procedure is designed to be supportive and to give clergy the time, training and resources they need to improve. If in the last resort an officeholder is removed under this procedure, he or she will have the right to bring a claim of unfair dismissal to an independent employment tribunal.
Copies of the Code of Practice and the guidelines can be obtained from https://www.churchofengland.org/search-results?keys=common+tenure
It is important to note that the purpose of the capability procedure is improvement. It is also appropriate to draw your attention to the words in Part I Introductory note of the Code of Practice (Page3) which makes it clear that it is expected that most performance related matters will be identified and addressed informally without engaging the procedure. Nevertheless there will be times when informal steps will not be appropriate and in these instances the procedure will be used.
The Diocese undertakes to train all those who will be involved in capability panels so that they may properly fulfill the requirements of the procedure and the principles that underlie it. Further detail of the Diocesan approach may be found in Section 9 of the Clergy Handbook (Common Tenure)
