Governance & Care
Legacy and Wills
When writing a will, many people, after making provision for their loved ones like to bequeath gifts to various organisations. It may be that you would like to leave part of your estate to your local church or one that you have connections with.
All Church of England churches are funded by their members, so receiving a legacy from someone can be a real help – particularly if they have projects or schemes which need funding.
If you would like to leave a legacy to one of our five churches, you can either get in touch with the Rector or you might like to get further information from the Church of England’s Legacy website. Click on the image to the right, or here to be redirected to their site.
A gift can be an expression of your gratitude and thanksgiving towards God, and can help keep your local church alive, and help transform its future.
Click the image above to go to a new, FREE, will writing service sponsored by the Church of England and Parish Buying.
Safeguarding
We take safeguarding very seriously in our parishes and as such we have adopted the Derby Diocesan Safeguarding Policy and have conducted Safeguarding Audits in each of our five parishes. We also ensure that all office holders have access to and pay due regard to Church of England Safeguarding e-manual and Promoting a Safer Church 2017
We would encourage anyone with any concerns regarding a safeguarding matter in our churches to contact either our Parish Safeguarding Officer (PSO) or the Rector, Rev Philip Michell.
Telephone Numbers:
- PSO:
- Rev Phil Michell:
If you prefer, you can send an email to and this will go to the PSO.
Alternatively, you can report a safeguarding concern via the Derby Diocese website by clicking here. Or by filling in the Diocesan Safeguarding Referral Form directly here.
If you have information about a safeguarding situation where a child or adult is in immediate danger or requires immediate medical attention call the emergency services on 999. Do not delay.
We understand reporting abuse may be very difficult and distressing to you and it may add to your hurt by our not being able to immediately assist you. Therefore here are the contact details of other agencies that are available to assist either on a 24-hour basis or through specialist helplines and services:
National Survivor Helpline: 0800 80 20 20 (independent of the Church of England)
NSPCC Child Protection Helpline: 0808 800 5000 (lines free and open 24 hours). Phone if you are worried about a child.
Child-line: 0800 1111 (lines free and open 24 hours). Phone if you are a child or young person and are worried about anything.
National Domestic Violence Helpline: 0808 2000 247 ((lines free and open 24 hours). Phone if you are experiencing domestic abuse.
Samaritans Helpline: 08457 90 90 90 (open 24 hours). Phone if you feel you are struggling to cope and need someone to talk to.
Action on Elder Abuse Helpline: 080 8808 8141 ( free phone Monday to Friday 9-5pm)
Privacy Policy
Our commitment to GDPR – General Data Protection Regulations
DATA PRIVACY NOTICE
The United Benefice of Atlow, Bradley, Hognaston, Hulland and Kniveton
1. Your personal data – what is it?
Personal data relates to a living individual who can be identified from that data. Identification can be by the information alone or in conjunction with any other information in the data controller’s possession or likely to come into such possession. The processing of personal data is governed by the General Data Protection Regulation (the “GDPR”).
2. Who are we?
The PCC of each of our five parishes is the data controller. This means that each PCC decides how your personal data is processed and for what purposes.
3. How do we process your personal data?
The PCCs comply with their obligations under the “GDPR” by keeping personal data up to date; by storing and destroying it securely; by not collecting or retaining excessive amounts of data; by protecting personal data from loss, misuse, unauthorised access and disclosure and by ensuring that appropriate technical measures are in place to protect personal data.
We use your personal data for the following purposes: –
- To administer membership records, including statistical analysis;
- To fundraise and promote the interests of the Church;
- To manage volunteers;
- To maintain our own accounts and records (including the processing of gift aid applications);
- To inform you of news, events, activities and services running at the parish church;
4. What is the legal basis for processing your personal data?
- Explicit consent of the data subject so that we can keep you informed about news, events, activities and services and process your gift aid donations and keep you informed about diocesan events.
- There is no disclosure to a third party without consent.
5. Sharing your personal data
Your personal data will be treated as strictly confidential and will only be shared with other members of the church in order to carry out a service to other church members or for purposes connected with the church. We will only share your data with third parties outside of the parish with your consent.
6. How long do we keep your personal data?
We keep data in accordance with the guidance set out in the guide “Keep or Bin: Care of Your Parish Records” which is available from the Church of England website
Specifically, we retain electoral roll data while it is still current; gift aid declarations and associated paperwork for up to 6 years after the calendar year to which they relate; and parish registers (baptisms, marriages, funerals) permanently.
7. Your rights and your personal data
Unless subject to an exemption under the GDPR, you have the following rights with respect to your personal data: –
- The right to request a copy of your personal data which the PCC holds about you;
- The right to request that the PCC corrects any personal data if it is found to be inaccurate or out of date;
- The right to request your personal data is erased where it is no longer necessary for the PCC to retain such data;
- The right to withdraw your consent to the processing at any time
- The right to request that the data controller provide the data subject with his/her personal data and where possible, to transmit that data directly to another data controller, (known as the right to data portability), (where applicable) [Only applies where the processing is based on consent or is necessary for the performance of a contract with the data subject and in either case the data controller processes the data by automated means].
- The right, where there is a dispute in relation to the accuracy or processing of your personal data, to request a restriction is placed on further processing;
- The right to object to the processing of personal data, (where applicable) [Only applies where processing is based on legitimate interests (or the performance of a task in the public interest/exercise of official authority); direct marketing and processing for the purposes of scientific/historical research and statistics]
- The right to lodge a complaint with the Information Commissioners Office.
8. Further processing
If we wish to use your personal data for a new purpose, not covered by this Data Protection Notice, then we will provide you with a new notice explaining this new use prior to commencing the processing and setting out the relevant purposes and processing conditions. Where and whenever necessary, we will seek your prior consent to the new processing.
9. Contact Details
To exercise all relevant rights, queries or complaints please in the first instance contact the Rev Phil Michell at 16 Eaton Close, Hulland Ward, Ashbourne, Derbyshire, DE6 3EX, Tel who will pass your query onto the relevant PCC Data Controller.
You can contact the Information Commissioners Office on 0303 123 1113 or via email https://ico.org.uk/global/contact-us/email/ or at the Information Commissioner’s Office, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire. SK9 5AF.