Toolkit
The Divine Inspiration Toolkit is designed to help volunteers in parish churches create a warmer welcome for those who visit their buildings. If you want to improve your signage, write a better visitor booklet or read about ways to share your space with others you’ll find all the help you need here. All the elements are downloadable in .pdf format.
Please note that the Divine Inspiration toolkit may be used only in its original format. Parts of it may not be extracted and reproduced without permission.
Please get in touch if you have any queries or would like to find out more. Contact Helen McGowan
Resources
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Love it, Fund it, Keep it - funding for church repair projects (68.1 KB)
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Toolkit 1: Ten top tips for welcoming visitors to your church (266 KB)
Ten simple things to start you off as you begin to improve your welcome to visitors to your building. © Divine Inspiration 2012
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Toolkit 2: Interpreting your building for visitors (526 KB)
Well written and researched material will help you tell your story more effectively to those who make visits to your building. © Divine Inspiration 2012
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Toolkit 3: Opening with confidence (119 KB)
Sound advice and useful suggestions about security issues associated with opening up your church buildings and keeping your volunteers safe. © Divine Inspiration 2010
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Toolkit 4: Getting noticed (962 KB)
Ensure you make a good first impression on visitors to your building and provide information people can access using technology. © Divine Inspiration 2011
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Toolkit 5: Writing a better statement of significance (163 KB)
A Statement of Significance is a valuable resource to help you understand your church building and improve your stewardship. It is a requirement of making an application to Faculty. This is a step-by-step guide to getting it right. © Divine Inspiration
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Toolkit 6: Unlocking the story of your church online (104 KB)
A list of on-line resources to help you with your detective work as you research your church's story. © Divine Inspiration 2010
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Toolkit 7: Church and school working together (952 KB)
This will give you tips and information for welcoming groups of young people into your church buildings.
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Toolkit 8 - Sources of funding for church projects (100 KB)
Whether you are looking for funding for a major rebuilding project or a minor alteration, this guide will point you in the direction of possible sources of finance.
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My high tower and my refuge (3.95 MB)
Information and guidance for organising safe tours of your church tower. Produced by Heritage Inspired, South Yorkshire's faith tourism initiative
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Opening times of churches in the Diocese of Coventry (63.3 KB)
Opening times of churches by deanery
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sMeasure: Starter guide for churches (2.5 MB)
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You're Welcome! (983 KB)
Welcoming visitors effectively is acknowledged as part of our ministry to visitors from far and near. This exercise is designed to help you to measure your welcome. It is a tool that could help you to make inexpensive, simple, but effective, changes to your church that will enhance and improve the experience for a visitor or someone new to your building and surroundings.
