The Diocese of London is big: it stretches from Heathrow in the west all the way up to the Olympic site in the East and from central London right out to Barnet and Enfield. We represent over 400 parishes, serving over 6 million people.

We are able to be present in every community because of the work our parishes do – and not just in bricks and mortar but in people.

The Common Fund allows us to put a vicar in nearly every parish. It pays their wages, their pension, their housing, their training and it even pays for the training of a parish's next vicar.

The Common Fund is about every parish seeing itself as part of the big picture and giving generously and sacrificially. This means parishes are able to help fund work and worship in places where people contribute to the big picture in amazing ways but do not have the financial resources to meet the cost of ministry.

It is how we express being one body by doing more together than we could ever do alone.