{"id":40,"date":"2025-03-10T11:24:04","date_gmt":"2025-03-10T11:24:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/clergypensionaction.uk\/?page_id=40"},"modified":"2025-03-10T11:24:04","modified_gmt":"2025-03-10T11:24:04","slug":"news","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/clergypensionaction.uk\/?page_id=40","title":{"rendered":"News"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__list has-dates wp-block-latest-posts\"><li><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__featured-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/clergypensionaction.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/image-150x150.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" style=\"\" \/><\/div><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/clergypensionaction.uk\/?p=260\">Clergy Pension Poverty To be Prevented after Grassroots Clergy Campaign Synod Success<\/a><time datetime=\"2025-07-17T14:46:32+00:00\" class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-date\">July 17, 2025<\/time><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-excerpt\">On Monday the Church of England\u2019s General Synod voted overwhelmingly in favour of a Private Members Motion supported by over two thousand clergy.\u00a0 As the campaign built over the spring and early summer over 700 priests signed a letter to the Church Times led by Rev Marcus Gibbs, and an unprecedented 192 members of the\u2026 <a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/clergypensionaction.uk\/?p=260\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">: Clergy Pension Poverty To be Prevented after Grassroots Clergy Campaign Synod Success<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/li>\n<li><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__featured-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/clergypensionaction.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/press-release-1024x673-1-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" style=\"\" \/><\/div><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/clergypensionaction.uk\/?p=173\">Church of England announce significant Pension proposals<\/a><time datetime=\"2025-05-22T09:43:50+00:00\" class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-date\">May 22, 2025<\/time><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-excerpt\">After a successful campaign from Clergy Pension Action, the Church of England has this morning announced proposed major improvements to the Clergy pension scheme. In a press release today, the Church has announced proposals to restore the target pension level to two-thirds of pensionable stipend, and to also increase active pension that have come into\u2026 <a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/clergypensionaction.uk\/?p=173\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">: Church of England announce significant Pension proposals<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/li>\n<li><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__featured-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/clergypensionaction.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/image-150x150.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" style=\"\" \/><\/div><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/clergypensionaction.uk\/?p=160\">Synod Private Members&#8217; Motion calling for Clergy Pension Action launched<\/a><time datetime=\"2025-04-29T08:35:39+00:00\" class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-date\">April 29, 2025<\/time><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-excerpt\">A Private Members&#8217; Motion for the General Synod calling for urgent action on clergy pensions has been launched. The motion calls for urgent action to restore (retrospectively) pensions to the 1997 levels and to plan for a more just pension settlement moving forward. Private Members&#8217; Motions are motions sponsored by ordinary synod members. Once 100\u2026 <a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/clergypensionaction.uk\/?p=160\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">: Synod Private Members&#8217; Motion calling for Clergy Pension Action launched<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/clergypensionaction.uk\/?p=149\">Guardian &#8211; C of E vicars call for \u2019urgent and decisive action\u2019 on increasing their pensions<\/a><time datetime=\"2025-04-02T19:48:45+00:00\" class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-date\">April 2, 2025<\/time><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-excerpt\">Church of England vicars are demanding an increase in pensions amid claims that many face an impoverished old age, with some forced to rely on food banks or move in with adult children. Almost 2,000 C of E clergy have joined an action group on Facebook in the past few weeks and 700 signed a\u2026 <a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/clergypensionaction.uk\/?p=149\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">: Guardian &#8211; C of E vicars call for \u2019urgent and decisive action\u2019 on increasing their pensions<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/li>\n<li><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__featured-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/clergypensionaction.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/writing-hand-read-journal-newspaper-finger-670669-pxhere.com_-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" style=\"\" \/><\/div><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/clergypensionaction.uk\/?p=96\">Church Times Leader recognises &#8220;Pension Anger&#8221;<\/a><time datetime=\"2025-03-14T08:29:20+00:00\" class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-date\">March 14, 2025<\/time><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-excerpt\">The leader in this week&#8217;s Church Times recognises &#8220;the inadequacy of clergy pension provision&#8221; that led over 700 clergy to write calling for a restoration of the 2\/3 stipend pension provision. You can read the Leader here and see Madeleine Davies&#8217; main article here.<\/div><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-40","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/clergypensionaction.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/40","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/clergypensionaction.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/clergypensionaction.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clergypensionaction.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clergypensionaction.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/clergypensionaction.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/40\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43,"href":"https:\/\/clergypensionaction.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/40\/revisions\/43"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/clergypensionaction.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}