As a registered charity, PARCHE has a board of Trustees made up of members of local churches. We employ 2 part-time staff: the Director, who oversees the work, and leads the training courses; and the Development Officer, who keeps in touch with the local Homes and the 73 visiting teams.

Each participating church provides one or more teams, which we train, and allocate to individual Homes. At present 30 churches are providing teams.

25 of the local churches and a number of individuals give generously to the work of PARCHE; as 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 Homes. We provide various training courses for teams, outlines of which are posted on this website. To purchase any of these resources navigate to “PARCHE Resources for Sale”.    

 Ken Gerry

Message from the Chairman
Welcome to our website. Thank you for taking time to look at the work of Parche.

We need more people involved in this important work, bringing pastoral care to older people at this most vulnerable time in their lives. We look forward to meeting you.

If you are not local to Eastbourne, we would love to explore with you, the possibilities for establishing “Parche” in your area.

The Lord bless you, Bryan Blaydon