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Every parish compliant.
Every diocese assured.

ParishGuard audits every parish website in your diocese against Church of England requirements, scores each parish, and generates the policies they’re missing — pre-populated with their own details. Built by the team behind property and governance systems already trusted by dioceses across England.

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Every parish website audited

2-tier

Required + best practice checks

2031

Charity registration tracked

Parishes in a free sample audit

The problem

Hundreds of parishes. No way of knowing.

Your diocese is responsible for assurance across hundreds of parishes — but you have no way of knowing which parish websites display a safeguarding policy, name their Parish Safeguarding Officer, publish a privacy notice, or show their charity number.

And with every PCC required to register with the Charity Commission by 2031, the governance workload is about to grow dramatically. Today, checking means visiting websites one by one. Nobody has time for that.

①What it does

Five things ParishGuard does for you.

One system that checks, scores, fixes and answers — so diocesan assurance stops depending on somebody finding a spare afternoon.

①

Audits every parish website automatically.

Our compliance engine visits each parish website, finds safeguarding pages, privacy notices, policies and charity numbers, and checks them against the Church of England’s definitive requirements — plus a best-practice tier covering everything from accessibility to complaints procedures.

②

Scores and reports cleanly.

Each parish receives a clear compliance score with a red/amber/green rating. Your diocesan dashboard shows the whole picture: league tables, trends over time, and exportable board-ready reports.

③

Generates the missing policies.

Where a parish lacks a policy, ParishGuard produces one from official Church of England, Charity Commission and diocesan templates — pre-populated with the parish’s own name, PCC details, charity number and safeguarding contacts.

④

Tracks 2031 charity registration readiness.

See at a glance which PCCs are registered, which are ready, and which need help — with a step-by-step registration wizard for parish officers.

⑤

Answers parish questions before they reach your inbox.

A built-in knowledge base and assistant gives parish officers plain-English, source-cited answers to governance, GDPR and safeguarding display questions — and knows when to signpost to your team instead.

②Two views, one system

Diocesan oversight. Parish self-service.

The same data, surfaced two ways — full assurance for the diocesan office, and a simple portal that tells each parish exactly what to do next.

Diocesan admin

Full oversight.

The whole diocese on one dashboard, with the evidence behind every finding.

Run audits across every parish website
Manage the requirements checklist and template library
Monitor 2031 registration readiness
Export board-ready reports

Parish portal

Secure parish logins.

For incumbents, churchwardens, PCC secretaries, treasurers and Parish Safeguarding Officers.

Each parish sees its own score
A plain list of what’s missing and why it matters
Pre-populated policies downloaded in one click
Registration wizard with their details already filled in

2031 charity registration readiness heatmap across every parish — **The 2031 readiness heatmap**Every parish’s charity-registration preparedness on one screen — from a demo diocese built from published national data.

Why HCOMS

ParishGuard draws on the parish data your diocese already holds — no rekeying, no spreadsheets, no guesswork.

— HCOMS builds and supports property, DMS and CRM systems for Church of England dioceses including Leeds, Leicester, Oxford, Norwich and Chelmsford.

③Questions

The questions dioceses ask first.

Does it replace our church management software? Where do the website addresses come from? Is any safeguarding case data stored? Candid answers, written to be quoted in a board paper.

Read the ParishGuard FAQ → What should be on a parish website? The 2031 PCC deadline explained

No obligation

See what your parishes’
websites are missing — today.