Growing our influence

Dan Tyndall writes:

I am delighted to say that the Charity Commission has accepted our application to register as a charity! The Major Churches Network is now a registered charity with the number 1207610. This will help hugely in sorting out our bank account including online banking!

We are very keen to learn of Major Parish Church lay people and clergy elected to General Synod or sitting in other places of power and / or influence in the national church. Please do le us know by emailing info@majorchurches.org so we can begin to map where opportunities already exist and where the gaps lie.

You might be interested in some stats from the first newsletter we sent out just after Christmas:

• 400 people received the newsletter and whilst half a dozen did unsubscribe

• 238 opened it (60%)

• 63 people (25%) clicked through to at least one story

Talking to someone in the marketing business, they expressed real admiration for that conversion rate even despite the fact that we are addressing a ‘warm’ audience. If you feel like being in touch, we’d love to hear from you.

As you may have read in Mark’s reflection on our Away Day, we hope to be in a position to appoint a National Officer to work alongside the Exec to develop and deliver on the strategic goals of the network: training, advice, support. Watch this space for more on that in due course.