Groups & benefices
Most of the church websites I've built aren't for a single parish on its own — they're for a group of churches sharing one vicar, one PCC structure, and now one website. Here's how it actually works.
Across rural Lincolnshire especially, it's the exception rather than the rule for a church to stand entirely on its own. A benefice might cover two neighbouring parishes, or it might stretch to six or nine churches spread across a scattering of villages, all served by the same vicar and often the same small group of volunteers doing the admin for all of them. A website built for a single church doesn't fit that reality — and neither does a price that assumes one.
So the approach here starts from the group, not the single church: one website, one shared home page, and then a proper section for each individual church within it — its own history, its own service times, its own dedication and story — so nobody's parish gets reduced to a single line in a list.
Every group site follows the same pattern. There's a shared home page and a shared "what's on" or news section covering the whole benefice, since a lot of church life — the vicar's rota, joint services, a benefice-wide event — genuinely is shared. Then each individual church gets its own page or section: its dedication, a little of its history, its specific service pattern, and its own contact details where they differ from the rest of the group.
That structure has already been built for benefices ranging from two churches up to nine parishes spread across a deanery, so whether your group is small or large, it's a pattern that's been proven at both ends of that range.
This is where a shared site really earns its keep. Rather than everything funnelling through one overworked webmaster, whoever looks after news for each individual church — a churchwarden, a reader, whoever runs that parish's side of things — can send updates straight to me for their own church's section, while the vicar or benefice office can do the same for anything shared across the whole group. See Keeping Your Site Current for the detail on how that works day to day.
£50 a month covers the first church on the site, and each additional church sharing that same site is £15 a month more — so a two-church benefice is £65 a month, and a nine-church group is £170 a month, all in, no setup fee. See the full Pricing page for the worked table.
A flavour of the range already delivered — full detail on Our Work.
A pair of parishes sharing one vicar and one site — the simplest version of the shared-site pattern, and where this pricing model started.
Two separate six-church benefices built so far, each covering a scattering of villages under one shared site.
The largest group built so far — nine parishes across one deanery, all represented properly on one site.
£50 a month for the first church, £15 a month for each one after that — no setup fee.
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