The Church Development Tool: a way of planning together

Take part by 10 November 2024.

This year we are running the Church of England’s Church Development Tool survey in our church.

It’s a quick, anonymous survey that we’re inviting everyone in the church to complete, to help us understand ourselves as a church and shape our prayers and our planning for the year ahead.

The survey will help us answer three questions:

• What should our focus be?
• How do we like to express our faith and grow our faith in this church?
• What groups of people do we have in our church?

Your answers will help us decide about what we could be doing more of or less of as a church.

Your answers will help us spot our strengths and how we could grow in our faith journey together.

The survey will also ask you for some demographic information, such as your age group and ethnicity. We ask these questions so that we can check how far the makeup of our church mirrors the makeup of the local community. This will help us check what groups we're reaching already and where there are opportunities.

What we find out will help us see where we’re doing well, and help us discern areas where God might be calling us to do something new or different.

It’s important that as many people as possible in the church answer the survey, so that we get an accurate picture.

Click here to complete the survey online

or pick up a paper copy from the sidesperson desks in church.

Please respond by Sunday, 10 November 2024.

Thank you!