Parish Share Review Group

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Parish Share Review Group

• Funding the Future
• Michael Lane (Chair)

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Group Remit

• Review the system for determining and
  apportioning contributions to the shared ministry
  for mission financial responsibilities in the
  diocese of Portsmouth.
• Aims
• To review the historic effectiveness of the
  current system
• To identify and consider relevant evidence
• To produce findings and recommendations for
  future apportionment arrangements for the
  Bishops Council to consider, with initial
  findings to be delivered at a meeting in the
  first quarter of 2014, with a view to bringing
  agreed recommendations to the Diocesan Synod as
  soon as possible.

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Membership

• Perry Abbott
• Keith Adlam
• Jamie Barr
• Joan Cozens
• Will Hughes
• Steve Lazell
• Stephen Lamdin
• Lionel Matthews
• John Steadman
• Roger Shepherd
• Andy Wilson

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Consultation Process

• Met 5 times
• Diocesan survey wide and deep listening 167
  responses 112 individual, 55 parishes/deaneries
• Discussions with Diocesan Finance Committee
• Archdeacons
• Reported to Strategic meeting of Bishops Council
  on 10 May 2014

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Report to Bishops Council 10 May

• Identified key issues
• Group work had re affirmed relevance of ability
  to pay as key factor and issues relating to this
  to be handled
• Reported wide concern about sustainability and
  size of cake cost to be shared and ability to
  influence this from parish level

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Bishops Council Next Actions

• Current group ends
• Transfer of work and initial findings to other
  work areas
• 1. Short term task group on apportionment to
  report to Synod in November 2014
• 2. Longer track review through existing
  governance systems of future funding
• 3. Feed what has been heard into the strategic
  work of Bishops Council

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Apportionment Task Group

• Hugh Mason Chair
• Jamie Barr
• Debbie Sutton
• John Steadman