24 pieces and resources across the four pillars, curated for this reader.
For use in the days before you commission a Communications Champion in your parish. Read slowly, perhaps more than once.
This document contains two parts:
A structured worksheet for making the parish's whole communications ecosystem visible in one view. Used by the priest or PPC chair, usually alone or with the parish secretary, in a dedicated sitting of ninety minutes to two hours.
This pack contains four documents. Together, they are enough to start a parish communications system from something like zero.
A one-page policy template that deaneries, dioceses, or clusters of parishes can adopt (and adapt) to eliminate duplicate content across organisational levels. Names where each content type originates, where it syndicates to, and who owns each.
A structured worksheet for producing an honest, non-judgmental view of a parish's actual communications output over a specific period. Usually reveals that the output is structurally flat across the liturgical year.
This pack contains four documents. Together, they are enough to start a parish communications system from something like zero.
For agency leads, diocesan staff, priests, PPC chairs, and consultants entering parish work. Read before proposing any change.
The artefact that converts a parish change idea into a structured proposal. It is designed to be filled in collaboratively, after the "What Already Works" audit (W3) has been completed, and before any change conversation becomes public.
A reference document for project sponsors, agencies, and priests responsible for the pace of a parish change. Read at the start of a project and reread at the start of each of the three seasons. Not a one-time read; a working companion.
The honouring-before-proposing exercise. A structured worksheet that forces the discipline of understanding what is currently good, and naming it specifically, before any change is proposed.
This pack contains four documents. Together, they are enough to start a parish communications system from something like zero.
For the priest, parish secretary, or curator facing a communications decision they are not sure about.
A one-page policy template that helps a parish articulate and document its approach to AI in communications. Adapted by the parish from the template; signed by priest, parish secretary, and a PPC member; reviewed annually.
A specific interface document between parish safeguarding and parish communications. Not a safeguarding policy: the parish safeguarding officer has that, following diocesan and bishops' conference guidance. This template closes the gap between…
This pack contains four documents. Together, they are enough to start a parish communications system from something like zero.