You’ve invested time and energy in recording and returning your financial and attendance data. Thank you. Dashboards enable you to view the data you have provided in a visual format.
Why view our data in a dashboard?
Dashboards are tools for mission and ministry. They make it easier for us to know our numbers and the challenges and possibilities that lie before us. They present your data in a simple visual and accessible way.
Please use them to help kick start prayerful, positive, creative conversations around sustainability, mission and growth in Church Leadership or Vision and Growth teams, in mission and finance committees, at PCC and deanery planning groups – wherever the conversation will work best. Dashboards help you explore:
- Major trends over 5 or even 10 years
- Issues to address.
- Opportunities to grasp.
- Things to celebrate.
- Challenges to focus on.
- sustaining and growing your church in your community.
Where can we find our dashboard?
The good news is that dashboards are readily available right now and you have different options to explore. Read on.
Cornerstone
Cornerstone is new and innovative resource from the national church teams in London. With a directory of nearly 900 grant making trusts and over 40 pathways to good practice in stewardship it is a rich and powerful resource.
Of particular interest for our data is Cornerstone Insights. Insights is a customisable and downloadable set of graphs and charts capturing 10 years of parish data. At the moment, only financial data is available; Statistics for Mission attendance data is in the pipeline.
If you already have access to Cornerstone click to Insights to explore your financial data.
If you don’t have access yet please check out our diocesan diocesan Cornerstone page. Look for the 30 minute on-boarding workshops to be held on Zoom from February 2026. The details are on the events page.
Parish Returns website
The Church of England’s Parish Returns website provides seven tables and charts going back ten years– where appropriate at both church and parish level. Unlike Cornerstone, the graphs cannot be customised but they do capture both finance and Statistics for Mission returns and can be downloaded as single sheet dashboards. On the main menu select:
- View Data >Charts & Dashboards
The website also includes dashboards with graphs of census data and IMD deprivation data:
- View Data > Census & Deprivation Dashboards
Liverpool dashboards
Liverpool produced dashboards add a little more detail than is available via Cornerstone or the Parish Returns website. It is the same data but Liverpool can include additional information giving comparisons with:
- deanery data
- diocesan data
- churches of a similar congregational size
- churches in a similar socio-economic situations
Liverpool dashboards are offered for both church attendance and church finance.
Request a Liverpool dashboard
To request a Liverpool dashboard or for further help and guidance please contact the Resources Team at St James’ House or ring 0151 705 2180.