Online Data Entry
The simple and efficient way to make your annual Statistics for Mission and Parish Finance returns is online. The Parish Returns web page makes it easy to do make your returns and lets you see all your returns at any time: parishreturns.churchofengland.org
The portal lets you enter your data flexibly over a period of time. Until you click Submit you can continue to enter and amend your church data. After you click Submit you can still amend via the parish support teams at St James’ House.
- For Statistics for Mission returns the online forms open late autumn to capture Easter services and October attendance along with some more details. When the calendar year ends you can enter the rest of the data.
- For Returns of Parish Finance (RPF) the portal form opens on 1st January and stays open until late June. Please. Don’t. Wait! As soon as you are ready, start entering your RPF data online. As above, you can enter and amend until you submit and still make changes after that.
Painting by numbers
The Parish Returns site holds your finance and attendance returns for the last ten years. It also holds downloadable graphs and charts of this data. Check out our Parish Dashboards page for more information.
Accessing the Parish Returns website
You might already have access to the Parish Returns website. If you have entered data on the site in the past use your existing login and password.
Also, if you have setup a Service Register App account your app username and password will give access to the Parish Returns website.
If you have forgotten your details simply contact Central Services to reset your login details
Creating a new parish returns account
If you don’t have a free account to access the Parish Returns web page please email the Resources Team or Central Services at St James’ House (details below). An account will be set up for you and you will receive an email with your log in details.
Handy to know
It’s possible, in fact it’s helpful to have a few accounts for the same church. All accounts can see and edit the data for their church/parish. Having this backup and flexibility is helpful. You just don’t want too many cooks for this particular broth.
The same log for Parish Returns gives you access to the Service Register App.
Help and advice
For help with the Parish Returns website and queries about data entry online please contact:
The Resources Team: resources.team@liverpool.anglican.org (0151 705 2180)
Central Services: centralservices.liverpool.anglican.org (0151 709 9722)