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<p>The Church Commissioners do not award funding to specific dioceses; this is the
role of the Archbishops' Council, as delegated to the Strategic Investment Board.
<br> <br>The Independent Review notes on page 27 para 3.32, beneath Figure 10, that
"the Strategy and Development Unit do not regard the estimates of new disciples
witnessed and expected for individual projects that underpin the aggregates as a robust
basis to compare their actual and expected performance, which of course suggests that
one should be wary of combining them into an aggregate figure." <br> <br>The
figure used in the report is 175 new disciples out of an anticipated 1125 by 2024,
but is based on older data. More up-to-date figures from the end of 2020 show that
the project as a whole is ahead of its interim goals for attendance by the end of
2021, and early data shows further growth into 2022. As with all churches, the long-term
effects of the Covid-19 pandemic are still to be worked out. The Chote Review of Lowest
Income Communities funding and Strategic Development Funding can be found at: <a href="https://www.churchofengland.org/sites/default/files/2022-03/IRLS%20-%20final%20report%20%282%29.pdf"
target="_blank">https://www.churchofengland.org/sites/default/files/2022-03/IRLS%20-%20final%20report%20%282%29.pdf</a></p>
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