The Churches Community Value Toolkit has been developed by the Church Urban Fund, the Commission on Urban Life and Faith, and the Churches Regional Commission for Yorkshire and the Humber. The Toolkit is a way for churches to show what they contribute to their community in terms of outputs and outcomes. In particular, there are calculations that can demonstrate the financial contribution of a church and ways to identify a church's distinctiveness.

 

The Toolkit is there to be used as people see fit perhaps in support of a grant application or in negotiations with others such as the Local Authority, the Local Strategic Partnership, or the Primary Care Trust. The Toolkit, which can be downloaded below, can also be used over a period of time to identify changes and developments. Different versions have been developed to reflect the different financial arrangements of different denominations. Currently the Church of England, Baptist and Methodist versions are available, with a Roman Catholic version to follow.