Fr Neil Dalley TSSF SMMS

Priest | Vicar at Saint Alban Westcliff-on-Sea | Christian, Catholic Anglican, Franciscan Tertiary, vegetarian, tea-drinker @sodalityofmary @cormirfield

[Fr Neil Dalley TSSF SMMS @dexterdalley]

@fathergarlick @Baroness_Nichol Yes! This was a big revelation to be when covering at a parish that did the ablutions at the end rather than “TARPing”!

[Fr Neil Dalley TSSF SMMS @dexterdalley]

@OSacrumCorIesu @liambeadle @liturgicalben I am told it comes from the National Safeguarding Team.

[Fr Neil Dalley TSSF SMMS @dexterdalley]

@OSacrumCorIesu @liambeadle @liturgicalben We were given an email address if we have questions. I will send that to you. I have to say I found it a very confusing document and it looks more like an internal draft than a consultation document.

[Fr Neil Dalley TSSF SMMS @dexterdalley]

@OSacrumCorIesu @liambeadle @liturgicalben I also think the Charity Commission aren’t always aware of how a church can be quite different from other charities in the sheer range of people we can encounter in the course of a week.

[Fr Neil Dalley TSSF SMMS @dexterdalley]

@OSacrumCorIesu @liambeadle @liturgicalben Yes absolutely. I think all charities are meant to be already doing it. Have a look at the Charity Commission page on Safeguarding. I don’t know when they decided this. I’m not sure if their decisions are accountable to anyone.

[Fr Neil Dalley TSSF SMMS @dexterdalley]

@OSacrumCorIesu @liambeadle @liturgicalben The Survey was shared with everyone in Chelmsford Diocese.

[Fr Neil Dalley TSSF SMMS @dexterdalley]

@charliebelllive Have they noticed that some of them have been allowed into the House of Bishops over quite a few decades?

[Fr Neil Dalley TSSF SMMS @dexterdalley]

@MadsDavies Everything seems to have become more professionalised. And more and more people are excluded. Tech is a big problem.

[Fr Neil Dalley TSSF SMMS @dexterdalley]

@SteveCaple4 They looked much more ramshackle in those days. Did the stall holders provide their stalls rather than the corporation in those days?

[Fr Neil Dalley TSSF SMMS @dexterdalley]

@MadsDavies One of the outcomes of this is that people end up asking for a priest to do all the things that their last priest wasn’t very good at. But then taking for granted all the things they were great at doing. Disappointment in things being lost or forgotten ensues.

[Fr Neil Dalley TSSF SMMS @dexterdalley]

@MadsDavies I feel a significant problem is that often the people writing them have no experience of doing anything similar and have no idea about the climate they are speaking into. Support given to parishes seems very variable in the process.

[Fr Neil Dalley TSSF SMMS @dexterdalley]

@vbspurs Is that the private chapel in Windsor Castle as it doesn’t look like Saint George’s?

[Fr Neil Dalley TSSF SMMS @dexterdalley]

@Remisagoodboy I wonder why she does not wear the Garter sash. Queen Elizabeth (the Queen Mother) wore it at State Openings as Queen Consort. Prince Philip wore the Great George which surely she would be entitled to do as well.

[Fr Neil Dalley TSSF SMMS @dexterdalley]

@MadsDavies Yes that is indeed his father, who sadly died some years ago but used to attend our parish @stalbanswos in his retirement. Alex’s mother was until recently our Churchwarden.

[Fr Neil Dalley TSSF SMMS @dexterdalley]

@sarahdiaryz Is that a new Equerry with him?

[Fr Neil Dalley TSSF SMMS @dexterdalley]

@RoyalMailStamps And taking inflation into account one old penny from 1840 is today worth 55p. Rather less than the cost of sending a letter today.

[Fr Neil Dalley TSSF SMMS @dexterdalley]

@DrFrancisYoung I loved that series so much and badgered to be able to visit the castle!

[Fr Neil Dalley TSSF SMMS @dexterdalley]

@SteveCaple4 And Peacock Way was so beautiful!