Partnership
Partnership and strengthening
We are not a denomination and we are not recruiting your members. This page sets out what partnership actually involves, including the parts that require something of us rather than of you.
Current status
Registering interestPartnership conversations are open now. Formal diligence stages and the published church-health criteria are still being approved.
Available now
- Starting a partnership conversation, with no assessment and no commitment
- The full partnership principles and what we ask of a church
- Leadership formation for people in your congregation
Still being developed
- Published church-health criteria
- The diligence process for support involving money
- The vetted referral network
After you register: someone from the church partnerships team is in touch within five business days. An enquiry does not mean funding has been approved or that your church has been assessed.
Our principles
Partnership first. We begin by asking what a church is already doing well and what it actually needs — not by presenting a programme and looking for somewhere to run it.
Local authority respected. Your church remains accountable to its own leadership and structures. We do not take pastoral authority over your members, we do not ask for tithes, and we do not require your congregation to identify with us.
No brand extraction. We do not require our name on your building, your services or your materials as a condition of support.
No conditional loyalty. Support is not withdrawn because a church declines a programme, disagrees publicly with us, or chooses to work with someone else.
What we can offer
Leadership formation
Governance and financial capacity
Safeguarding
Planting support
Referral relationship
Pastoral honour
What we ask
- That your church has functioning governance and financial accountability, not one unaccountable individual.
- That you have a safeguarding policy and a named lead, or are willing to work towards them.
- That your teaching is Bible-based and you are accountable for it.
- That people who come to you through us are cared for whether or not they become useful to you.
- That you tell us honestly when something we have done has not worked.
The stages
- Conversation. No forms, no assessment. What you are doing, what you need, whether we are useful.
- Discovery. A structured conversation about your church's context, governance and priorities.
- Diligence. Where support involves money or safeguarding exposure, proportionate due diligence — governance documents, financial controls, safeguarding arrangements and references.
- Agreement. What each party will do, over what period, and what happens if it does not work.
- Review. Scheduled honest review, including whether to stop.
How we handle your information
Information you share about your church is held as confidential. It is not published, not shared with other churches, and not used in fundraising material without your specific written agreement. Where diligence involves financial or safeguarding information, it is held in a restricted system with role-based access and is never sent by email as an attachment.
We do not publish a directory of partner churches without asking each church first.
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