PARISH SHARE A new beginning Trevor Bush

BASIC PRINCIPLES Easy to understand and apply. No link between ability to pay and the deployment of clergy. Use external datasets. Take account of deprivation. Acknowledge the PCC’s costs in keeping churches open.

BASIC PRINCIPLES Mission Communities and the benefits that they will bring has been recognised. However, Mission Communities could be fluid and change with time and circumstances. Therefore, the Panel considered that Share should be allocated at benefice level. Thus the benefice will have to decide on the split between its constituent PCCs.

Basic elements of the model Population of the benefice Deprivation index of the benefice The number of churches in a benefice

The Target By 2018 the contribution to the Common Fund from Share needs to be £6,125,000 gross.

Proposed diocesan share model The deprivation index (80%) Category Total share amount No of benefices in category Request per benefice 1£1,225,00027£45,370 2£2,450,00069£35,507 3£1,200,50041£29,280 4£36,7507£5,250 5-£12,2502-£6,125

Proposed diocesan share model The population factor (20%) BandPopulation figures Request per benefice £3, , ,999£7, , ,999£11,003 4 >15,000£14,671

AN EXAMPLE Little Snoring in the Fen IMD Allocation Band 2 £35,507 Population Allocation Band 3 £11,036 Sub total £46,543 Benefice status Factor X1 £46,543 Less £1000 per church (£ 5,000) Common Fund Contribution £41,543

IMPACT When compared with 2015: 92 beneficesincrease in share 49 beneficesdecrease in share 3 beneficesnegligible change

NEXT STEPS…. Diocesan synod approval Meeting with benefice Parish share requests to benefices Benefice agrees apportionment to parishes

BENEFICE MEETINGS Advise benefices of their minimum share target for 2018 – with interim steps Discussions, if necessary, with benefices regarding their staged change Agree a share for those few benefices who do not fit the formula.

The new formula only calculates a suggested minimum amount that benefices should contribute

Giving is our response, as Christians, to God’s generosity. Together with the historic income from the generosity of past generations, we will continue to grow the church in the diocese of Lincoln

THE MOUNTAIN TO BE CLIMBED.... Share PaidNumber of Parishes NOTHING23 Less than 25%10 Less than 50%16 Less than 75%32