Lucy Harrison
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
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>> Spotlights on parishes in Carsington Deanery
Carsington Deanery consists of:
The benefices of:
1) Fenny Bentley, Thorpe, Tissington, Parwich and Alsop-en-le-Dale
2) Ashbourne with Mapleton, with Ashbourne St. John
3) Hulland, Atlow, Kniveton, Bradley and Hognaston
4) Brailsford with Shirley, Osmaston with Edlaston and Yeaveley
5) Clifton
6) Norbury with Snelston
7) Wirksworth (comprising Wirksworth with Aldersley, Carsington, Idridgehay, Kirk Ireton, Middleton, Bradbourne and Brassington, Bonsall, Elton)
8) Matlock Bath and Cromford
9) Darley, South Darley and Winster
10) Matlock, Dethick, Lea and Holloway
11) Matlock Bank and Tansley
Also, Bishops’ Mission Orders:
1. The Bridge
>> Parish Spotlights for Carsington Deanery
Carsington Deanery Newsletter
Carsington Deanery Synod - 2024
Details will be added when confirmed.
Welcome to the South East Derbyshire Deanery.
We are part of the East Derbyshire Archdeaconry.
Archdeacon: The Ven. Karen Hamblin - karen.hamblin@derby.anglican.org.
Acting Area Dean: The Ven. Andie Brown - andie.brown@derby.anglican.org
>> Spotlights on parishes in South East Derbyshire Deanery
The benefices of:
1. Swanwick and Pentrich
2. Wilne and Draycott with Breaston
3. Cotmanhay and Shipley
4. Ilkeston St Mary
5. Ilkeston Holy Trinity
6. Ilkeston St John the Evangelist
7. Kirk Hallam
8. Long Eaton St Laurence
9. Long Eaton St John
10. West Hallam and Mapperley with Stanley (including All Saints Stanley Common)
11. Ockbrook with Borrowash
12. Stanton by Dale with Dale Abbey and Risley
13. Sandiacre
14. Sawley
15. Codnor
16. Horsley and Denby
17. Heanor
18. Horsley Woodhouse
19. Morley with Smalley
20. Langley Mill and Aldercar
21. Loscoe
22. Marlpool
23. Ripley
Welcome to the North East Derbyshire Deanery.
We are part of the East Derbyshire Archdeaconry.
Archdeacon: The Ven. Karen Hamblin - karen.hamblin@derby.anglican.org
Area Dean: Revd Daniel Cooke - daniel.cooke@derby.anglican.org
Assistant Area Dean: Revd Sarah Colver - vicar@oldbramptonchurch.org.uk
Lay Chair of Deanery Synod: Canon Christine Holmes-Elener
Deanery Secretary: Nigel Swann
Assistant Warden of Readers: Anne Knyhynyckyj
>> Spotlights on parishes in North East Derbyshire Deanery
The benefices of:
1. Barlborough and Clowne
2. Calow and Sutton Cum Duckmanton
3. Eckington and Ridgeway (including Upper Eckington)
4. Elmton with Creswell
5. Killamarsh and Renishaw
6. Staveley and Barrow Hill
7. Whitwell (including Steetley)
8. Old Brampton and Great Barlow
9. Brampton St Mark
10. Brampton St Thomas (including Holymoorside)
11. Chesterfield St Mary and All Saints
12. Chesterfield SS Augustine
13. Chesterfield Holy Trinity and Christ Church
14. Dronfield with Holmesfield (including Gosforth Valley, Holmesdale and Unstone)
15. Hasland
16. Temple Normanton
17. Loundsley Green
18. Newbold
19. Whittington (including St Bartholomew and St Barnabas)
20. Wingerworth
21. Walton St John
22. Brimington
Also, Bishops’ Mission Orders:
1. The Order of the Black Sheep
Inbetween
Inbetween is the newsletter of the North East Deanery.
Upcoming Deanery Synod Meetings - 2024
All Synod meetings run from 7.30pm - 9.00pm
Tuesday, 6 February 2024 - Wingerworth
Wednesday, 19 June 2024 - Creswell
Tuesday, 12 November 2024 - Walton
For our Diocese, Indices of Multiple Deprivation (IMD) scores for each parish/team range from 3.5320 (least deprived) to 61.4208 (most deprived). Individual Parish Deprivation Scores are calculated inversely to individual parish/team IMD scores. These range from 12.43 (least deprived) to 5.80 (most deprived) *. A lower amount means a parish/team will be requested to pay less Common Fund. *The figure of 12.43 is the amount that would be required to finance the full cost of ministry in the Diocese per person per week. The lower figure of 5.80 represents 5% of a 2015 Basic State Pension.
The attached spreadsheet lists all parish/team IMD scores and Parish Deprivation Scores download here
What does Common Fund pay for?
The common fund contributes towards ministerial costs: clergy stipend, housing, council tax and water rates, remuneration costs, national insurance, pension, training (curates and ongoing CME); safeguarding and wider church responsibilities, including parish support, statutory contributions to the national church and education.
If the Diocese makes any savings could these passed on to parishes in the form of lower Common Fund contributions?
The diocese is not a profit-making organisation and any investments from savings gets put back to subsidise ministry in our parishes. What is received via Common Fund payments does not equate to the amount it costs to keep the level of clergy and ministerial support that is needed for the ongoing sustainability of the diocese. So, it is not possible to return any contributions. Each parishes calculation is based on their estimated ability to contribute and all that is received goes straight back to support ministry.
If we cannot pay the suggested amount of CF can we adjust our payments accordingly?
Your payments can be adjusted to reflect what is affordable to you, however, the common fund request will remain the same and we ask that you contribute as much as you can. For assistance in fundraising and stewardship or new ways of giving contact the Finance Team, telephone 01332 388650, finance@derby.anglican.org.
Will we lose our vicar if we cannot afford our Common Fund payments?
Not necessarily as, within the spirit of the Common Fund, it is through generosity of an affluent parish that allows stipendiary clergy to be placed in less affluent areas. We all share the costs of ministry so there can be a Christian presence in every community.
There is a problem with the formula
We agree that every formula will have its own problems, that no formula will be ‘perfect’ because the complexity of any Diocese cannot be neatly captured in a formula. But the question remains for us as a Diocese: how do we fund our Common Life and live out the Gospel imperative to ‘love our neighbour’?
We should not have to pay for ministry we’re not getting?
Within the Diocese we understand ministry more widely than the Vicar or the Parish Priest in a parish. As we reflected on this question other questions emerged. For example, if we only pay for the ministry we receive how will this affect the life of other ministry that is currently offered in the Diocese eg. Reader Ministry, Self-Supporting Ministry, Safeguarding, DAC?
Our congregations can’t afford it / won’t be persuaded to pay
As we continue to reflect on the new Common Fund, we recognise that for some parishes there will be a difficulty in paying what is asked. But we really do want to live up to the name of ‘Parish Support Office’: we want to support parishes that might find it difficult to contribute to the Common Fund. We have prioritised the work of a number of staff in the ‘Parish Support Office’ to support parishes as the new Common Fund is introduced. They will work with parishes and with deaneries through open conversations and drawing on a variety of resources.
We have abnormal costs
We recognise that the formula cannot capture the complexity of the different parishes in the Diocese. As we journey together as a Diocese in our Common Life we will become more aware of these costs. In listening to parishes and walking with them we hope that we can be imaginative in finding ways to take account of ‘abnormal costs.’
The money is going to churches that are not pulling their weight
This is an important point for clarification. This statement raises all sorts of other questions: Do we want to go down the line of ‘enforcement’ and ‘sanctions?’ How do we encourage people to build God’s Kingdom, to be healthy, outward facing, growing and learning? How do we help parts of our church family find a new life and a new way of ‘being and doing church’? How do we avoid being judgemental about what another church is doing or not doing, particularly if we are not familiar with the particular context of that church?
There needs to be a conversation about the viability of some churches
This is another important point. We are aware that some ‘small’ churches feel they are struggling. And we are aware of the historic, cultural and social importance to the wider community of churches. How do we discern viability? How do we do closures well? How do we celebrate the past, but also mourn the loss of one part of the Diocesan family in the present?
The diocese needs to spend less money and cut staff costs
We recognise that in any financial planning – for business or personally – it is important to balance the budget. Income and expenditure need to be the same; if there is over expenditure in one area then cuts are need to happen in another area. The Diocesan budget reflects the Diocesan priorities for mission and ministry, for our Common Life together as a Diocese. How we spend less money and still achieve the Diocesan priorities for mission and ministry is an important – and challenging – question. How do we decide what we need to keep and what we can do without so that together we can work to achieve the Diocesan vision ‘Christ’s Presence in every community?
>> Our Finances
Thank you once again for your important contributions to our thinking about the Common Fund. As together we continue our journey into the next phase of the Common Fund we pray that together we may hear and listen to one another and that together we pray the Common Fund Prayer:
God our Father,
make us to think more of what we can give to life and less of what we can get out of it.
May we be mindful that we hold our gifts, our talents, our possessions, our life itself,
in trust for you and the service of all people.
Save us from thinking only of our own needs and desires;
and help us to remember that it is more blessed to give than receive,
according to the teaching of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.
Amen
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Transitional arrangements for the new Common Fund by formula for each parish will be put in place such that:
- Parishes with an increase in the amount requested will have this phased in over a 3-year period
- Parishes with a reduction in the amount requested will have this phased in over a 2-year period
We would request that those parishes who are faced with a reduction in the amount they have been requested to pay to consider ‘freezing’ payments at current levels so that they can help their neighbours who are faced with an increase. Being generous in this way will help ensure that we can continue to support all parishes. At many of our recent meetings we considered the parable of The Good Samaritan in Luke 10: 25-37 reflecting the theme of supporting your neighbour.
Support and materials for all parishes will be made available and you will be able to hear more about this at the meeting.
Common Fund is requested from all parishes and all parishes are invited to this meeting. As an open meeting you may extend an invitation to all those who are interested who may not necessarily be Deanery Synod members.
Deanery Meeting Presentation <updated presentation to follow>
