The Diocese of Liverpool is pleased to announce that it has appointed Warren Hartley as Parish Sustainability Lead. This new role has been supported by the National Church of England funding over the next three years as part of our efforts to support parishes and our diocese to be sustainable into the future.
Warren takes up this role after having a range of roles in our diocese over more than 11 years, including most recently working as PA to the Bishop of Warrington. He said “I have loved working with Bishop Bev over the past two years and I look forward to taking up this new role and continue to serve the people of our diocese”. Bishop Bev expressed her deep gratitude to Warren for the excellent work he has engaged in as her PA saying “Whilst I’m very sorry to be losing Warren as my PA this is an excellent post for him and I wish him every blessing.”
Our aim is firstly to identify the parishes in our diocese which are currently least able to support the cost of a stipend, appropriately weighted for areas of greater or less deprivation. Then to subsequently work with those parishes to collaboratively develop creative solutions to maintain local parish ministry in those communities.
Warren will take up his new role on 6th November and will work alongside our existing Resources team and the Archdeacons in this focused piece of work. Together they will be a great gift to our faithful and committed parishes, enabling us all to face the future with confidence.