Life Events

The Church of England performs about 1,000 marriages a week.
It conducts about 2,700 baptisms (or christenings) a week.
More than 1 million people a week attend a Church of England service - about the same number as 10 years ago.
About 2.5 million people attend church services at Christmas.
About 1.4 people attend church services at Easter.
25% of all primary schools and 1 in 16 secondary schools are Church of England, many in deprived areas.
Church of England schools educate almost 1 million students.
Churchgoers contribute 23.2 million hours each month outside their local church to voluntary work in their local community.
Congregations give £49 million a year to other charities.
The Church provides activities outside church worship in the local community for 470,000 children and young people (aged under 16 years).

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