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Clergy wellbeing and disability survey 2026

Thank you for completing this survey. We are looking to better understand and help to inform our provision for clergy wellbeing across the Diocese of London. It’s divided into three sections the first covering clergy wellbeing more generally, the second looking at disability and Neurodiversity, and the third looking at other related issues.
1.What is your role?(Required.)
2.How happy do you feel in your current role?(Required.)
3.How would you rate the following aspects of your mental health?(Required.)
No concerns
Managed concerns
Causing concern
Very concerned
Depression
Anxiety
Difficulties sleeping
Difficulties concentrating
Personal relationships
Loneliness
4.If you answered 'managed concerns', 'causing concern', or 'very concerned' above, are you receiving any medical treatment for a mental health condition?
5.How helpful do you find the following sources of support for your wellbeing?(Required.)
Very useful
Useful
Not very useful
Not aware of this
Not applicable
Area Dean
Archdeacon
Colleagues
Area Director of Ministry
Diocesan Disability Enabler
Human Resources
6.How helpful do you find the following types of support?(Required.)
Very helpful
Neutral
Not helpful
Not aware of
Not used
Counselling
Mentoring
Spiritual Direction
Retreat
Sabbatical
Work consultancy
Coaching
Ministerial Development Review
Peer supervision groups
Clergy Support Trust
St Luke's for Clergy
Other charity
Employee Assistance Programme (Health Assured)
7.To what extent has the cost of living increase impacted your ability to meet your financial commitments?(Required.)
PART TWO
8.Do you feel that in the past three years there has been an increasing awareness of disability and neurodiversity within the diocese?(Required.)
9.Have you attended any disability or neurodiversity training events or used any of the disability and neurodiversity resources offered in the past three years?(Required.)
10.Has your engagement with some of these things challenged or changed aspects of your ministry?
11.Are there events or initiatives in addition to what is currently offered that you would like to see included?

Please tell us
12.How confident are you that disclosing personal disability or neurodivergence would be met with a positive, enabling and supportive response?(Required.)
13.Has your confidence that disclosing disability or neurodiversity will result in positive and enabling support increased or decreased over the past 2 years?(Required.)
14.Are you disabled or neurodivergent or does this impact your personal or family life?

Tick as many as apply(Required.)
15.If you are disabled or neurodivergent, do you feel you have sufficient support and information to function well within your role?(Required.)
16.If answer is not found support/inadequate support or unsupported:

If you feel unsupported, please tell us about what would help.
17.If you have concerns about any aspect of your wellbeing and would like someone to follow up please enter your email address; EMAIL AND AREA (Edmonton, Kensington, Stepney, Two Cities or Willesden)
18.If you would like to make any comments on any aspect of this survey or your wellbeing, or the support you would like please do so here:
PART THREE
19.Do you feel there are other issues related to your wellbeing and aspects of your identity beyond disability/neurodivergence that affect your engagement with the Diocese, either positively or negatively (for example, your race or ethnicity, gender identity, age, etc)?(Required.)
20.If so, do you feel the Diocese has policies and/or processes in place to respond to any areas where support might be needed?
21.Have you attended any unconscious bias training events or used any related resources offered in the past three years?
22.Has your engagement with some of these things challenged or changed aspects of your ministry?
23.Are there events or initiatives in addition to what is currently offered that you would like to see included?
ABOUT YOU
As well as understanding people's experiences across the Diocese, we also want to understand whether there is any relationship between people's demographic characteristics and their survey responses. For example, this may help us understand whether people in similar age groups report similar experiences of wellbeing. Without this information, it is difficult to identify patterns across different groups and ensure our response to the survey is informed by those findings. If you feel comfortable doing so, we would be grateful if you completed this section.
24.What is your age?
25.Supplementary question for those who are 51-60 and 61-70

At what age are you planning to retire from your current ministry?
26.What is your gender identity?
27.Is your gender identity the same as assigned to you at birth?
28.How would you describe your ethnic identity?
29.Country of origin/Nationality or country most associated with.
30.Which of the following options best describes your sexual orientation