The Diocese of Lichfield has partnered with the Church of England’s National Giving Team to offer a new free to access online learning tool called Cornerstone. Cornerstone helps churches to understand and improve their finances, their giving practice and their culture of generosity.
Insights is a data dashboard bespoke to your church collated from parish data, allowing churches to view a detailed picture of their financial situation.
Pathways provide step by step project guides to help churches to focus on most relevant to them, providing easy to follow templates and tools making planning a little easier.
Additionally, the Cornerstone platform provides a grants database which gives parishes access to a free live database of 600 grants selected by the Church of England. This allows churches to see what is available for their up and coming projects and provides guidance when applying.
Cornerstone Rollout
To date we have completed 11 workshops for churches within the Lichfield Diocese and we now have a total of 156 successful logins using Cornerstone to help them to booast giving and generosity within their church. You can see some of the feedback from our pilot workshops on the link below.
We have travelled to the following places to present our workshops
- Shallowford House
- St Martins Walsall
- Emmanuel Harlescott
- Telford Minster
- St Martins Oswestry
Cornerstone Information Special
Cornerstone workshops will be coming to a deanary new you. Information will also feature in the Finance Alerts. Make sure you click the link below to register your interest if you have not yet found a workshop in your area.
Dates for future Webinars
- 17 September 2026 6:30pm - 7:30pm
- 21 September 2026 - 10:00am - 11:00am
- 21 September 2026 - 2:30pm - 3:30pm
- 8 October 2026 - 6:30pm - 7:30pm
- 20 October 2026 - 10:00am - 11:00am
- 20 October 2026 - 2:30pm - 3:30pm
To book a Webinar please email Parish Resources
Dates for next Workshops
- 6 October - St Johns Littleworth Stafford
- 15 October - St Lukes Cannock
- 3 November - St Annes Chasetown
- 19 November - St Mary the Virgin Colton
Please click the links to book your place on a face to face workshop.
Find out more
If Cornerstone sounds like the perfect fit for your church, please reach out to the Cornerstone team for more information and resources for other people within your church and PCC. You can reach us at Cornerstone team.