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Tim Pike

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Vice President Havant Conservatives @havantcons. Volunteer with @scouts. Strategy and projects for @cofeportsmouth inc support to @jonathanhfrost

Havant, Hampshire Katılım Kasım 2014
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Tim Pike
Tim Pike@_timpike·
@MadsDavies 1. Say it as it is. Otherwise the challenges will come out later in the process and people will withdraw. 2. Good pictures can say a lot, and so can real quotes from the congregation. 3. Be clear what is essential and what might be helpful in the new person.
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Madeleine Davies
Madeleine Davies@MadsDavies·
Help! I'm writing something on adverts for clergy jobs. Looking for views on - What makes a good ad/parish profile - What makes a bad ad/parish profile - For PCC members and others, was it difficult to draw such things up? Did you need more help? Image: CT Ads Team circa 1964
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Tim Pike
Tim Pike@_timpike·
@MadsDavies I wouldn’t agree with that - my Diocese has one of the largest growth in children for 2025. Most children don’t start with Sunday - we’re using messy church, muddy, bubble, etc. And using our relationship with CofE schools more effectively. It can happen, but rarely by accident.
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Madeleine Davies
Madeleine Davies@MadsDavies·
Was reading that the median C of E has a weekly average attendance of children of 1 (down from 3 in 2019). Around a third have no children in their worshiping community. My sense is that the concentration of the remaining children in larger churches will continue.
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Rhys Laverty
Rhys Laverty@RDLaverty·
I'd put good money on evangelicals having often attempted to buy these for church plants/expansions previously, but been either refused by stubborn, dying liberal congregations or been unable to due to various charity-based hurdles.
Samuel Leeds@samuel_leeds

I wanna buy churches like this that are shutting down across England. So if you know a church that's for sale and potentially closing down, let me know. I wanna buy a church. I don't care if it's got planning permission to return to flats redeveloped. I don't care. I wanna buy it. I don't care how profitable the conversion will be. If it was built as a church, I believe it needs to stay as a church. I want to save churches like this one from being shut down and sold off to developers all across the UK. I love making profit in property, but when someone's being built as a church to honour Jesus Christ, that's a no no. There's revival coming in England and we need to keep our churches open. Ready for what’s to come. Is this a good idea you would support?

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Tim Pike
Tim Pike@_timpike·
@WalkerMarcus And listing will add to the time, money and expertise required to look after a currently unlisted church building making it more likely they will end up not used for Christian worship
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Marcus Walker
Marcus Walker@WalkerMarcus·
Is the intention good? Broadly yes. Will the proposed plan work? Not without a lot of other things added to give it meat (and by other things, I mostly mean ‘money’).
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Marcus Walker
Marcus Walker@WalkerMarcus·
Listing doesn’t stop a church closing or being sold. Ensuring churches have enough money to repair the buildings, enough people to raise the money (and, one might add, worship in those buildings), and aren’t drowned in paperwork when trying to repair them might.
Zia Yusuf@ZiaYusufUK

Reform will protect British culture, because a nation without a culture is just an economic zone.  We will preserve Britain’s Christian heritage, granting listed status to all churches to prohibit their conversion into places of worship for any other faith.

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Tim Pike
Tim Pike@_timpike·
@OSacrumCorIesu I think we probably do know the factors - but some of the answers don’t make easy reading. You do need to look at all the numbers together, e.g. some of our numbers last year indicated growth was coming from existing people attending a bit more often.
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Fr Angela Rayner SMMS
Fr Angela Rayner SMMS@OSacrumCorIesu·
But the 48% is stark. Perhaps we’re still recovering from Covid, and will increase with time. Perhaps we’re stagnant. But if we cd understand better the factors at play (long vacancies? cultural atrophy? over-heavy governance? weak theological formation?), I’d like to see it.
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Fr Angela Rayner SMMS
Fr Angela Rayner SMMS@OSacrumCorIesu·
I’m still pondering the qns raised by the Springtime conference. But this C of E slide from Ken Eames is sobering. Is there learning or commonalities from the 12% of C of E churches experiencing growth against all 3 metrics? Are they geographically dispersed?
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Tim Pike
Tim Pike@_timpike·
Great @ChurchTimes conference hosted by @MadsDavies with fascinating speakers all of whom had insightful experience what they had seen locally, and how they had responded. Lots of food for thought for @CofEPortsmouth
Fr Angela Rayner SMMS@OSacrumCorIesu

Controversial(?) list from David Goodhew at @ChurchTimes “Springtime for the C of E: where are we seeing growth?” conference. “Is it springtime in the C of E? Yes, in quite a few places; others not so much. But churches can still grow in the chill winds of secular Britain.”

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Tim Pike
Tim Pike@_timpike·
@MadsDavies It is a lot of work - I’m working on a bid. But having good missional design, project plan, budget, outcomes, etc, that everyone shares multiplies the chances of success, and means you can celebrate when it happens. I would say looking at ways to grow the Kingdom is core work.
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Madeleine Davies
Madeleine Davies@MadsDavies·
Applying for SMMIB: "Detailed information & analysis had to be presented in relation to every single intervention. The amount of work this involved was enormous, drawing large amounts of capacity away from business as usual, to the detriment of other significant areas of work"
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Tim Pike
Tim Pike@_timpike·
@MadsDavies I’m worried that I’m responsible for a large chunk of that increase! Hopefully no one has access to my MyWaitrose card data to say how many I’ve eaten over a year.
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Madeleine Davies
Madeleine Davies@MadsDavies·
QUIET REVIVAL (My father should actually be the face of this campaign, although his attitude to sell-by dates is alarming).
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David Price
David Price@DrDavidPrice·
@MadsDavies I hope to be able to come. Music needs to be talked about! 😇🎶
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Madeleine Davies
Madeleine Davies@MadsDavies·
Really looking forward to chairing this later this month. We’ll have a mix of hearing from statisticians & parish clergy talking about what’s happening on the ground. Do join us! churchtimes.co.uk/springtime-for…
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Tim Pike
Tim Pike@_timpike·
@MadsDavies @MadsDavies I could give you other similar examples - but if the Statements of Need and Significance are robust and take account of policies then the DAC and others are much more likely to give a quick and positive recommendation - and the Parish can move forward how they wish
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Madeleine Davies
Madeleine Davies@MadsDavies·
I’d be curious to know what the decision would have been had they applied for the faculty originally. A Times investigation found that permission had been granted in nine out of ten cases for parishes to install new fossil-fuelled boilers thetimes.com/uk/environment…
Marcus Walker@WalkerMarcus

Forcing a freezing parish to rip out its new boilers (costing over £18,000) and then spend £60,000 on heat pumps so perfectly epitomises the contempt in which the national church holds the local church. telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/01/0…

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Thedustdolly
Thedustdolly@Thedustdolly·
@HavantBorough abandoned vehicle: going round the houses playing 'who is responsible' ping pong with @hantsconnect @HavantPolice Vehicle taxed but not MOT'd dumped and causing a road block - any takers?! 🤦🏻‍♀️
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Tim Pike
Tim Pike@_timpike·
@john_cope Quite right John - was in the DfE when skills went to the Department for Innovation universities and skills. It didn’t work at all and made 14-19 routes more complex
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Cllr John Cope
Cllr John Cope@john_cope·
DWP civil servants especially have coveted this for years. The risk is it downgrades FE/apprenticeships to 'get people off welfare', while bringing back the old fashioned snobbery that higher education is the route for "successful people" feweek.co.uk/skills-brief-t…
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Tim Pike
Tim Pike@_timpike·
@MadsDavies @thevicarswife @WalkerMarcus As a “SMMIB-funded” person, we’re already achieving rapid progress in @CofEPortsmouth helping Parishes accelerate their mission plans. Come and see what we’re doing - across all traditions, in all corners of the Diocese
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Madeleine Davies
Madeleine Davies@MadsDavies·
@thevicarswife @WalkerMarcus I have no insight into this case but in some cases, I think these posts are created to, in Chichester strategy's words "satisfy the needs of the national church". The SMMIB-funded programmes generally entail diocesan-level management
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Tim Pike
Tim Pike@_timpike·
@matthew_barber That’s a really good summary I concur with Matthew - a big unitary delivering statutory services (mostly specified by government / legislation anyway) and Parishes doing the non-statutory things that add local value. It’s the way to go in most places.
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Matthew Barber
Matthew Barber@matthewbarberUK·
In Oxford this afternoon talking to Oxford City council about their plans for a "Greater Oxford". I've been very clear on my views on local government reform in Oxfordshire (matthewbarber.co.uk/news/theres-on…) but an important discussion nevertheless about how councils can work closely with the police to reduce crime and make our community safer. #devolution
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Tim Pike
Tim Pike@_timpike·
@DrAlexFord Looks like wall barley. It’s really quick growing so can spring up within weeks, even if it’s been sprayed off. It’s not resistant but it’s certainly persistent!
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Prof Alex Ford
Prof Alex Ford@DrAlexFord·
I think our local authority in Portsmouth uses glyphosate to spray weeds around public footpaths. Whenever they spray these wheat plants appear resistant and spring up. Anybody studying glyphosate resistant genes? #roundup #herbicides #GMcrops
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Tim Pike
Tim Pike@_timpike·
Labour government: Build,baby,build. Labour council: it’s a bit difficult, we can only manage 52% of the allocation (and eight of the sites allocated already have planning permission). It’s not even an attempt at making a compliant local plan - and gives no hope to young people.
Havant Borough Council@HavantBorough

Want to help us shape the future of Havant borough? Do you have ideas or concerns about our environment, housing or town centres? Now is your chance to comment on the Draft Building a Better Future Plan for the development of the Borough of Havant: havant.gov.uk/localplan

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Tim Pike
Tim Pike@_timpike·
@DrDavidPrice And some fabulous new music and hymn words David - well new to me!
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David Price
David Price@DrDavidPrice·
One of my favourite services of the year. Great to see the cathedral packed with clergy, church officers and friends from across the diocese.
Portsmouth Diocese@CofEPortsmouth

Our annual #ChrismEucharist took place @PortsmouthCath this morning. Clergy and lay ministers gathered to renew their commitment to ministry, and to receive oils blessed by @JonathanHFrost for use in parishes. They also shared a lunch of bread and soup together. #MaundyThursday

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