{"id":143027,"date":"2026-02-03T17:35:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T22:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=143027"},"modified":"2026-02-03T18:52:52","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T23:52:52","slug":"church-times-archbishops-council-awards-600000-for-clergy-well-being","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=143027","title":{"rendered":"(Church Times) Archbishops\u2019 Council awards \u00a3600,000 for clergy well-being"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.churchtimes.co.uk\/topics\/archbishops-council\">Archbishops\u2019 Council<\/a>\u00a0is to award \u00a3600,000 to two national charities that provide well-being services to clergy, including\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.churchtimes.co.uk\/topics\/mental-health\">counselling<\/a>\u00a0and financial grants, it was announced on Monday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Clergy Support Trust, which is independent of the Church of England, has been awarded \u00a3500,000 for work that supports clergy with their finances, health, and well-being. It is hoped that the new grant will support clergy with everyday expenses such as energy costs, unexpected car repairs, and school-related costs for clergy children, a statement from Church House, Westminster, said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Trust also provides other grants and services for clergy, including counselling, coaching, and occupational therapy. A year ago, it received a grant of \u00a32 million from the Archbishops\u2019 Council (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.churchtimes.co.uk\/articles\/2025\/7-february\/news\/uk\/archbishops-council-makes-2m-grant-to-clergy-support-trust\">News, 7 February 2025<\/a>), through which more than 7000 grants were provided to more than 2900 households.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe vast majority of applicants are from serving clergy households in the Church of England,\u201d Church House said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Trust has supported more than one fifth of all serving C of E clergy for the past three years.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.churchtimes.co.uk\/articles\/2026\/6-february\/news\/uk\/archbishops-council-awards-600-000-for-clergy-well-being\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The Archbishops\u2019 Council is to award \u00a3600,000 to two national charities that provide well-being services to clergy, including counselling and financial grants, it was announced on Monday<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/churchofengland?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#churchofengland<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/clergywellbeing?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#clergywellbeing<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/churchnews?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#churchnews<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/churchtimes?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#churchtimes<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/zyu8RXD6YK\">https:\/\/t.co\/zyu8RXD6YK<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Church Times (@ChurchTimes) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChurchTimes\/status\/2018712944876404876?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 3, 2026<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Archbishops\u2019 Council\u00a0is to award \u00a3600,000 to two national charities that provide well-being services to clergy, including\u00a0counselling\u00a0and financial grants, it was announced on Monday. The Clergy Support Trust, which is independent of the Church of England, has been awarded \u00a3500,000<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=143027\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[175,104,435,184,129,441],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-143027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthropology","category-health-medicine","category-ministry-of-the-ordained","category-parish-ministry","category-psychology","category-stewardship"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=143027"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143027\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":143030,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143027\/revisions\/143030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=143027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=143027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=143027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}