Collection GB 0074 O/272 - CHURCH COMMISSIONERS

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GB 0074 O/272 1902-1926 Collection 0.01 linear metres Church Commissioners , Church of England

The Church Commissioners were formed in 1948 by joining together two bodies - Queen Anne's Bounty and the Ecclesiastical Commissioners. The Church Commissioners are based at Church House, Great Smith Street, London. They moved there in March 2007 to work under one roof with the Archbishops' Council and the Church of England Pensions Board.

The Commissioners' role is to manage the Church's historic assets, today invested in stock market shares and property, to produce money to support the Church's ministry. The Church Commissioners meet some 18% of the Church's total running costs.

The Church Commissioners' main responsibilities are: to obtain the best possible long term return from a diversified investment portfolio in order (1) to meet their pension commitments and (2) to provide the maximum sustainable funding for their other purposes such as support for the work of bishops, cathedrals and parish ministry; in doing so, to pay particular regard to making 'additional provision for the cure of souls in parishes where such assistance is most required'; to administer the legal framework for pastoral reorganisation and settle the future of redundant churches.

Source: http://www.cofe.anglican.org/about/churchcommissioners/ (accessed June 2009).

Received in 1968 (AC/68/071).

Records of the Church Commissioners, 1902-1926, including issue of 'Illustrated Church News', 1902; annual reports of 'The Home Club and Work', for the attempted cure of 'hooliganism' in North and East London, 1903-1904; annual report of Christ Church, Spitalfields, 1903; annual report of Saint Mark, Whitechapel, 1911; bazaar catalogues and magazine from Saint Etheldreda, Fulham Palace Gates, 1911-1913; annual report of Stepney Council of Public Welfare, 1912; article on the history of Saint George in the East, Whitechapel, 1912; and article on the work of City churches, 1926.

O/272/001-011.

Available for general access.

Copyright to the records rests with the City of London.

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Please see online catalogues at: http://search.lma.gov.uk/opac_lma/index.htm

Further material relating to the Church Commissioners can be found at references ACC/0981, ACC/1083, ACC/1485, DC, LMA/4204, and O/042.

Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

July to October 2009 Church Commissioners , Church of England Religious institutions Religious organizations Information sources Reports Documents Annual reports Organisation and management Administration Church administration Ecclesiastical districts Dioceses People People by roles Commissioners Ecclesiastical commissioners Social problems Religions Hooliganism Ancient religions Christianity Protestantism Anglicanism Church of England Information sciences Communications media Publications Periodicals Newsletters Literature Literary forms and genres Religious literature Hammersmith and Fulham London England UK Western Europe Europe Stepney Spitalfields Whitechapel Tower Hamlets Fulham Catholicism

Received in 1968 (AC/68/071).

Records of the Church Commissioners, 1902-1926, including issue of 'Illustrated Church News', 1902; annual reports of 'The Home Club and Work', for the attempted cure of 'hooliganism' in North and East London, 1903-1904; annual report of Christ Church, Spitalfields, 1903; annual report of Saint Mark, Whitechapel, 1911; bazaar catalogues and magazine from Saint Etheldreda, Fulham Palace Gates, 1911-1913; annual report of Stepney Council of Public Welfare, 1912; article on the history of Saint George in the East, Whitechapel, 1912; and article on the work of City churches, 1926.

O/272/001-011.

Available for general access.

Copyright to the records rests with the City of London.

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English

Further material relating to the Church Commissioners can be found at references ACC/0981, ACC/1083, ACC/1485, DC, LMA/4204, and O/042.

Please see online catalogues at: http://search.lma.gov.uk/opac_lma/index.htm

Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

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