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<p>The Independent Review of Lowest Income Communities Funding and Strategic Development
Funding led by Sir Robert Chote was published in March 2022 and can be read here:
<em><a href="https://www.churchofengland.org/sites/default/files/2022-03/irls-final-report-2.pdf%20"
target="_blank">https://www.churchofengland.org/sites/default/files/2022-03/irls-final-report-2.pdf
</a></em></p><p>In respect of meeting the objective of assisting clergy and parishes
in hardest to reach communities the Review recommended:</p><ul><li>Recommendation
2 - "Refocusing annual returns … towards more strategic reporting".</li><li>Recommendation
3 - asked staff to "identify and promote best practice … perhaps convening a
learning symposium".</li><li>Recommendation 5 – asked staff to "communicate
more clearly the extent to which LInC funding is sustaining ministry".</li></ul><p>The
action taken so far by the Archbishops' Council's Vision and Strategy team in response
to those recommendations has been to:</p><ul><li>Raise the profile of LInC funding
within ongoing strategic conversations between its staff and diocesan teams, as part
of dioceses' strategic development processes, with the aim of improving its effectiveness.</li><li>Ask
dioceses to give information about the intended outcomes from their planned use of
LInC funding, together with how they will be measured, as part of their annual return
on LInC funding for 2022.</li><li>Plan a learning event to bring together diocesan
representatives to share and develop their approaches on the use of LInC funding,
aiming to improve the effectiveness, accountability and transparency of LInC funding.</li></ul><p>From
the start of 2023, the new Strategic Mission and Ministry Investment Board (SMMIB),
a committee of the Archbishops' Council, has replaced the previous Strategic Investment
Board and Strategic Ministry Board. It distributes and monitors funds made available
by the Church Commissioners and Archbishops' Council via LInC, SDF, and other similar
funds.</p><p>More information about the role the SMMIB plays can be found here: <a
href="https://www.churchofengland.org/media-and-news/press-releases/new-board-oversee-unprecedented-church-england-investment-mission-and"
target="_blank">https://www.churchofengland.org/media-and-news/press-releases/new-board-oversee-unprecedented-church-england-investment-mission-and</a></p>
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