Coming up to Retirement? (Pre-retirement course 2026)

Facilitated by Revd Kate Byrom (Head of Ministerial Development & Wellbeing), this course is aimed at clergy who are coming up to retirement age and will provide helpful information and advice. This course will include representatives from the Church of England Pensions Board, Ecclesiastical Insurance as well as a panel of local recently retired clergy sharing their own experiences.

Clergy aged 50 years and older, along with their spouses, are warmly encouraged to attend, as forward planning is shown to be most effective in being well-prepared.

This course will take place over Zoom, with the timetable as below.

Course Programme

• 10am: Introduction & Welcome
• 10.15am: Pensions
• 11am: Break
• 11.15am: Ecclesiastical Financial Advice
• 12.30pm: Lunch Break
• 1pm: Housing
• 1.45pm: Questions
• 2.30pm: Panel of Retired Clergy
• 3pm: Break
• 3.15pm: Amanda Thomas (Diocesan Counsellor): Identifying Retirement Challenges & Joys
• 3.45pm onwards: There will be an opportunity to book 1-2-1 sessions with Amanda to personal circumstances (20 minutes at a later date) Opportunity to book a 1-2-1 session with Amanda to personal circumstances.