Church Training Programme Questionnaire

Yarnton Trust Church Training questionnaire for Advanced route 1 programme

A key principle for awarding a Yarnton grant to an individual is the rigour of the local church training programme. We assess this by reference to the thought, intentionality and focus of the programme. Please complete this questionnaire as a training church for a Yarnton applicant in consultation with the people training through your programme. Please then submit by 30 June 2026 (this is the deadline for individual grant applications). Thank you.
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Person completing this Church Training programme - Advanced (church-based) questionnaire

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1. What is the duration of the programme (years)?
2. What is the overall vision of the programme?
3. What are your criteria for appointing people to the programme?
4. How long has the programme been running (years)?
5. How many people have completed the programme? Please include those who will finish this Summer?
6. For those who have completed the programme, including those who will finish this Summer, how many have gone on to full-time gospel work?
7. For those who have gone on to gospel work, can you provide more detail, e.g. where they are working?
8. Who leads the programme and takes the main responsibility for training? If they are different from the person completing this questionnaire, please include their email address.
9. How many trainees will be on the programme in the coming academic year?
10. What is the regular pattern of meetings for mentoring/supervision?
11. Recognising the importance of godliness for life and ministry, how are people on the programme discipled?
12. What opportunities for word ministry are given?
13. What arrangements are in place to provide input and feedback on word ministry?
14. How are people equipped for and given opportunities in personal evangelism?
15. What leadership responsibility and experience are given and how is this monitored and assessed on an ongoing basis:(a) In terms of leading specific areas of ministry?(b) In terms of shadowing or serving as part of the church leadership?
16. What opportunities are people given to train and equip others?
17. What exposure to the breadth of church life and the different groups that make up a church family are people given?
18. Aside from input and feedback on word ministry, what other local church-based training do people receive?
19. What external training provider do you partner with?
20. How are you seeking to integrate the local church-based component of training with the external training component?
21. What contact/liaison is there between you as the training church and the external training provider? Are there ways you think this partnership could be improved?
22. What is the average weekly time commitment (hours) you expect from people in terms of their church-based work/training?
23. How do you ensure that people training have a balanced workload between church-based work/training and external study/training?
24. What procedures are in place for appraisal and development of people training?
25. What procedures are in place to ensure appropriate safeguarding for people training?
26. What is done to help people training discern next steps after the programme is completed?
27. What procedures do you have in place for ongoing review and development of the programme?
Please confirm if you have read the Yarnton Trust Principles for Awarding Grants for Advanced (church-based) programme applicants on our website
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Yarnton Trust Church Training questionnaire for Advanced route 1 programme