General Assembly papers
Papers from the 2022 General Assembly.
Assembly Business Digest
- Assembly Business Digest – Word document
- Assembly Business Digest – PDF
Additional papers (online only)
- DRAFT minutes for Sunday 10 July (PDF | 587kb)
- Order paper for Sunday 10 July (PDF)
- DRAFT minutes for Saturday 9 July (PDF)
- Order paper for Saturday 9 July (PDF)
- Expenses form (PDF | 14kb)
- DRAFT minutes for Friday 8 July (PDF)
- Agenda (PDF | 67kb – 5 July 2022)
- Order paper (part 1) for Friday 8 July (PDF | 885kb – 5 July 2022)
- Order paper (part 2) for Friday 8 July (PDF | 236kb – 8 July 2022)
GAG
- GAG – General Assembly Gossip from URC Youth – Day 3 (PDF | 3mb)
- GAG – General Assembly Gossip from URC Youth – Day 2 (PDF | 3mb)
- GAG – General Assembly Gossip from URC Youth – Day 1 (PDF | 2mb)
Papers
- Letter from General Secretary (PDF | 27kb)
- Minutes from Assembly Executive (PDF | 53kb)
- Standing Orders (PDF | 61kb) and Standing Orders (Word | 48kb)
- Synod Moderators’ report (PDF | 48kb)
Download the whole Book of Reports
- Book of Reports (PDF | 4mb)
Business Committee
- Paper A1 – Business Committee Report (PDF | 28kb)
Children’s and Youth Work Committee
- Paper B1 – Children’s and Youth Work Report (PDF | 63kb)
Ministries, Children’s and Youth Work, Education and Learning and Mission Committees
Equalities Committee
Education and Learning Committee
- Paper E2 – General Report (PDF | 216kb)
Faith and Order Committee
- Paper F1 – Report from the Faith and Order Committee (PDF | 38kb)
Finance Committee
- Paper G1 – General report (PDF | 97kb)
- Paper G2 – One-off payments to ministers and lay staff (PDF | 37kb)
- Paper G3 – Benevolent Fund (PDF | 37kb)
- Paper G4 – Trust Accounts (PDF | 23kb)
- Paper G5 – Future pensions arrangements (PDF | 285kb)
Ministries Committee
- Paper H1 – General report (PDF | 84kb)
- Paper H2 – The maintenance of the Ministry sub-committee (PDF | 41kb)
- Paper H3 – Pastoral supervision (PDF | 29kb)
- Paper H4 – Confidentiality policy (PDF | 41kb)
Mission Committee
- Paper I1 – Reinvigorating the ecumenical vision of the United Reformed Church (PDF | 145kb)
- Paper I2 – Environmental policy (PDF | 96kb)
- Paper I3 – Korea Peace Appeal (PDF | 29kb)
- Paper I4 – Vision2020 report (PDF | 85kb)
- Paper I5 – Walking the Way Final Report to the General Assembly (PDF | 45kb) and Walking the Way appendix (PDF | 108kb)
- Paper I6 – Legacies of (translantic) Slavery (PDF | 56kb)
Nominations Committee
- Paper J1 – Report to the General Assembly (PDF | 252kb)
- Paper J2 – Supplementary Report to the General Assembly (PDF | 44kb)
General Secretary
- Paper M1 – Ratification of constitutional changes concerning the Ministerial Discipline and Incapacity Processes (PDF | 55kb)
- Paper M2 – Additions to URC Structure and Rules of Procedure regarding Safeguarding (PDF | 44kb)
- Paper M3 – Church changes not previously reported to the Assembly (PDF | 28kb)
Church Life Review Group
- Paper N1 – Church Life Review Update (PDF | 55kb)
- Paper N2 – Assembly Committee structures and Church House structures (PDF | 344kb)
Law and Polity Advisory Group
- Paper P1 – Law and Polity Advisory Group (PDF | 25kb)
MIND Advisory Group
- Paper R1 – Professional investigation within the Discipline Process (PDF | 26kb)
- Paper R2 – Indemnity (PDF | 24kb)
- Paper R3 – Authority within the Discipline Process (PDF | 24kb)
- Paper R4 – Curtailment of a pastoral tie or appointment (PDF | 46kb)
- Paper R5 – Assisting an accused minister (PDF | 31kb)
- Paper R6 – Appendix Y: confidentiality, dissemination of information, and retention of records (PDF | 73kb)
- Paper R7 – The Assembly Representative for Discipline (PDF | 25kb)
- Paper R8 – Transitional arrangements from the ‘old’ to the ‘new’ disciplinary process (PDF | 41kb)
Safeguarding Advisory Group
- Paper T2 – Annual Safeguarding report 2021 (PDF | 41kb)
Resolutions
- Resolutions (PDF | 61kb)
General Assembly archive
The Book of Reports and Record of Assembly since the formation of the United Reformed Church in 1972 are available online