PARCHE Today

As a registered charity, PARCHE has a board of Trustees made up of members of local churches. We employ 2 part-time staff: the Eastbourne Local Co-ordinator, who oversees the local work, leads the training courses, and keeps in touch with the visiting teams and the Office Manager.

Each participating church provides one or more teams, which we train, and allocate to individual homes. At present 5 churches are providing teams.

6 of the local churches and a number of individuals give generously to the work of PARCHE. Because we are a registered charity, gifts can be gift-aided.

We offer a number of resources to assist in this work. A DVD entitled "The Church in Care Homes" shows the work of PARCHE. We have produced a set of three CDs of favourite hymn tunes, a CD of popular choruses and one of carols, for the use of teams without a musician. We have published two books, "50 Services" and "50 Bible Studies" to use in Care Homes. We provide various training courses for teams, outlines of which are posted on this website. To purchase any of these resources, navigate to our Resources page.