Churches from across the diocese have been using our online policy bank more and more for the past year, and now are sharing why they find it useful.
The policy bank has made possible as part of Barnabas: Encouraging Confidence, producing and gathering templates from lots of different sources, including from our parishes.
Yvonne Dean, Parish Administrator at St Michael’s Shelf with St Aidan’s Buttershaw speaking on the policy templates in a recent diocesan learning community said that: “You don’t have to reinvent the wheel.”
Jan Nicholson, PA at St John’s Great Horton, also said that the bank was “so easily accessible and saved me so much time.”
The Revd Lindsey Barber, Interim Priest in Charge at St Nicholas, Upper Cumberworth, St John Upper Denby & Denby Dale, St Paul Shepley and Emmanuel Shelley shared how efficient it was using the policy bank and that she has now pinned to her favourites bar “I needed to have some basic forms, such as volunteer agreements, risk assessments and so on.
“I needed some help, fast, and I managed to find everything I needed and more!”
Thanks to the positive response we have had to the policy bank, we are looking to adding more useful templates, with a focus at the moment on volunteer role descriptions.
If there is anything else you think is missing or think you might have to add, please do get in touch.
If you have found the bank useful as well, do let us know by emailing barnabas@leeds.anglican.org.