Free Will Offer Events for 2026

Following the 2025 Free Will Offer Roadshows, this year's events are designed to help treasurers, incumbents, churchwardens, and PCC members have clearer, more confident conversations about Free Will Offer in their parish.

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One Diocese, Shared Mission

Following the 2025 Free Will Offer Roadshows, this year’s events are designed to help treasurers, incumbents, churchwardens, and PCC members have clearer, more confident conversations about Free Will Offer in their parish.

As part of Living Christ’s Story, Free Will Offer helps us play our part in God’s mission of love in and for the world today. It supports a flourishing and sustainable Church by helping to fund ministry, safeguarding, training, parish support, and the shared services that enable churches to worship, welcome, and serve in every community.

These events will offer updated information, practical resources, and space for honest questions. They are aimed especially at treasurers, but other PCC members are warmly encouraged to attend, particularly if their treasurer cannot make it.

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What to expect

While the final agenda is still being shaped, the events are likely to include:

  • an update on Free Will Offer and the 2026 picture
  • practical resources to support PCC conversations
  • an explanation of what Free Will Offer helps fund
  • input from diocesan colleagues on the support available to parishes
  • time for questions, discussion, and honest conversation

Why attend?

These events are an opportunity to explore and discuss Free Will Offer in the wider context of mission.

They will help PCCs think about:

  • What shared resource would be hardest to replace locally?
  • How do we sustain the Church’s presence in every community?
  • How do we resource mission together as one diocesan family?

Some parishes can contribute more; others face greater challenges. Free Will Offer is one of the ways we share responsibility across the whole diocese, so the Church can continue to be present in rural villages, coastal towns, and urban communities alike.

Who should come?

These events are particularly for:

  • Treasurers
  • Incumbents and interested clergy
  • Churchwardens
  • PCC members

If your treasurer is unable to attend, another PCC member is very welcome to come in their place.

Book your place

Please book your place online so that we can plan and arrange refreshments.