Digital Transformation Programme updates
Read about the latest updates from the Digital Transformation Programme taking place across the Methodist Church.
If you want to view the workstreams being worked on, you can find out more on our Workstreams page.
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Here's what we heard — September 2026
01 October 2026
From this month, this note covers our other public surveys and groups as well as our standing question. In September that meant a new survey and a change to how we work with our two groups.
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Connected: Episode 6 — Easy To Find
25 September 2026
The first conversation episode. Ben talks to Dave Webster, Digital Content Manager, about why church details on Church Finder go out of date, what a simple page for every church could include, and how to keep it right without adding to the load on local churches.
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Church management platforms across the Connexion
10 September 2026
Help us understand what people are using to run their church or circuit, and how much this costs.
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Here's what we heard — August 2026
01 September 2026
Our standing question, "Tell us about digital and the Methodist Church," has now had 130 responses since we opened it in May.
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Here's what we heard — July 2026
04 August 2026
July was very quiet. One response came through our standing question, "Tell us about digital and the Methodist Church", which takes us to 127 in total since we opened it in May.
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Connected: Episode 5 — What You Told Us
07 July 2026
In the fifth episode of Connected, Ben Hollebon marks a milestone — the publication of the programme's Master Discovery Report — and walks through what the listening surfaced.
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Here's what we heard — June 2026
01 July 2026
Last month we started closing the loop – telling you what people say when they get in touch with the programme, and what we do about it. Here's what happened in June.
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What we heard — the Discovery report is published
23 June 2026
The master discovery report is now live - detailing everything we heard during three months of listening across the Connexion.
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Connected: Episode 4 — The tools that could help
12 June 2026
In the fourth episode of Connected, Ben Hollebon comes back to the tools — the walk-through promised at the close of Episode 3.
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Here's what we heard — May 2026
29 May 2026
This is the first of a monthly post where we tell you what people have been saying when they get in touch with the programme — and what we're doing about it. We read every response.
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Connected: Episode 3 — Working Differently
15 May 2026
In the third episode of Connected, Ben Hollebon takes a deliberate swerve from the promised tools-and-approaches episode to talk about something more fundamental: how the Digital Transformation Programme is being run.
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Have your say on digital in our Church - and help your congregation do the same
14 May 2026
The Digital Transformation Programme is listening across the whole Connexion. There's now a simple way for every local church to bring their congregation into the conversation - a service sheet insert and a slide you can put up on screen, both ready to download.
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