Appointments Process
Notes to help with your Parish Profile
- Provide a brief outline history of the parish.
- Give details about the population and socio-economic setting in the parish.
- Describe the pattern of housing and the institutions within the parish.
- Describe your own buildings and their use.
- Describe your relationship with schools.
- Describe your worship and music.
- Other Christian activities in the parish for all ages.
- Outline your approach to Christian Stewardship.
- Your relationship with the Deanery and the Diocese and your ecumenical neighbours.
- Attach to the profile a copy of last year's audited accounts and this year's budget if you have one.
- Provide a section which sets out strengths and weaknesses and hopes for the future.
- Provide personal specification for a new priest.
For more details about the profile click here
For brief guidance notes about creating a Parish Profile click here
Presentation of Parish Profile
The profile should be as attractively presented as possible.
It is good to use colour.
Photographs showing the church building (inside and out), anything particular about the building or your situation and examples of parish events are helpful.
The profile needs to go on the Diocesan Website so an electronic version is helpful. If you as a parish are able to prepare an electronic version it can be given to the Archdeacon by email or sent on a CD.
(If you do not have the possibility of doing this then it can be done in the Archdeacon's Office if you send the text of the profile and also any photographs.)
Photographs that are inserted should be reduced in file size so that the final document is not too large to upload onto the web or for prospective candidates to download on their computers. As a general rule the final document should not be larger than 3MB.
We do not need to produce as many paper copies of profiles because many people now ask for the documentation via email or download it themselves directly from our website.