We’re planning how we can make AChurchNearYou.com work better for you.
If there’s a feature you’d like to see, suggest it here.
What's coming
Reviewing the visitor experience. This will include looking at the homepage and the search and filter experience.
More flexibility with the use of images throughout the site.
Explore ways we could reduce duplication work for churches who run a separate website or who put their news and events into a third party system or calendar.
Explore ways to improve what dioceses see, based on diocesan feedback.
Recap: What we did earlier in 2025
May 2025 update: Fixes applied and new features to AChurchNearYou.com
Multiple breaks can now be added to a service or event.
More control over page design, including additional sections to upload videos and more text formatting options including headings and lists.
A ‘Who’s Who’ page can now be created on a church site, with an image, name and contact details.
Multiple email addresses can now be set to receive messages from the public which are sent through the 'Get in touch' form, based on the subject of the email.
Tags for services and events now appear in alphabetical order and tags for news stories have been removed.
Recap: What we did in 2024
November 2024 update: Fixes applied and new features to AChurchNearYou.com
February 2024 update: Fixes applied and new features to AChurchNearYou.com
The main database and web framework of the site was updated providing numerous security, performance, and support improvements
Reopened Church Development Tool for 2024
Recap: What we did in 2023
March 2023 update: New and upcoming features on AChurchNearYou.com
Introduced custom domain names for churches and benefices though AChurchNearYou.com.
Benefice functionality: Making things easier for people who manage multiple churches and increasing Benefice homepage functionality - involving focus groups of editors in the creation of this functionality
Reopened Church Development Tool for 2023
Improved and relaunched Online Service Register function
Improvements to the integration with the Life Events Diary, including introduction of a Room Booking page
Recap: What we did in 2022
Eight improvements at the end of January 2022
Adding an option to connect your page to the Church of England’s new Everyday Faith portal
Improving and relaunching the Church Development Tool function
Making it easier to manage and add images within AChurchNearYou.com
Reviewing the inbox functionality and forwarding messages from the public in full to email address of your choice
Simplifying the editor signup and approval process
Option of dedicated box on homepage for your Safeguarding info, rather than having to include it in your welcome message
Christmas features
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This page was last updated on 27 June 2025.
In future emails to AChurchNearYou.com editors we’ll share more updates and opportunities to test and feedback on new functionality before it launches.
Have you got feature you'd like to see added or is there something you'd like changed? Suggest it here.