Annual Church Returns (ACR) - an important change to note for Church Secretaries

This year, the URC plans to introduce online Annual Church Returns. Churches will be able to submit their statistics and updated information by entering this directly onto the user-friendly URC Church Update portal – this will be open to receive updated ACR data from churches during January and February 2022. The information supplied will be sent electronically to Church House and this will be shared with the Synod. We will be contacting you again with further information about the portal and you will receive your individual login and password in due course. Please do contact us with any questions. 

Annual Safeguarding Returns (ASR) - an important change to note for Church Safeguarding Co-ordinators

This year  the URC plans to introduce online Annual Safeguarding Returns. Churches will be able to submit their updated information by entering this directly onto the user-friendly URC Church Update portal – this will be open to receive updated ASR data from churches during January and February 2022. The information supplied will be shared with the Synod Safeguarding Officer/Adviser.  We will be contacting you again with further information about the portal and you will receive your individual login and password in due course. Please do contact us with any questions.