When you need to 'dig' a little deeper

The UCAN network is a great place for mutual support, sharing of ideas and encouraging best practice between members. We know this is a huge help as each of us tackle issues and challenges in our churches.

You may find from time to time that there are specific challenges or projects within your own church context that would benefit from some external eyes or input. Perhaps you're considering a staff restructure, a new post for recruitment, a technical system migration or a governance review. You may simply not have the capacity within your existing team to take on that one extra thing you're desperate to do. Over many years, through our network of consultants, UCAN has been able to match churches with the external support that they need.

A testimonial from one of our consultancy projects reads:
"It was a real blessing to meet with a UCAN consultant and I personally found it hugely encouraging to talk through my work and the needs of the church. UCAN's input and wisdom at this time was a real answer to prayer and just what we needed to move forward."

We have developed a consultancy service to help at these times. We have a network of consultants with particular skills and experience in a wide range of areas that may benefit churches and administrators.

Consultancy is offered at discounted rates to UCAN members and bespoke quotations are available upon enquiry. If you have a need and would like to talk further, please contact us at info@churchadministrators.net

Goodbye and thank you

One of the UCAN Directors – Colin Rye – stepped down from his place on the Director’s Board over the summer. For many years, as Executive Pastor at Christ Church Virginia Water Colin was an extremely active member of the UCAN network and was also on the Oversight Group, working alongside John Truscott. When Colin left church administration to work as DAI UK’s CEO & Senior Consultant, he continued as a UCAN Associate and still served on the Oversight Group. In summer 2017, when the Oversight Group transitioned to the UCAN Board of Directors, Colin became a Director and bought invaluable experience and perspective on Governance and Strategic planning into UCAN in particular.

As much as we wanted to keep Colin forever, after his retirement from DAI UK last March we knew that at some point we would have to let him go! Colin resigned from the Board in July after a thorough and careful hand over of his responsibilities. We will miss him greatly on the Board, but we wish him every success as he enters retirement and continues to be very active in his local church. I hope that you will join us in thanking Colin for all that he has done to serve UCAN so well and so faithfully and that you will pray for him, his family and his church for the next season ahead.