The School Buildings Team provide support to schools in matters relating to their capital funding, and school premesis. We can draw on advice from architectural, propery, and legal professionals to provide the best possible advice to schools. This support is offered to Voluntary Aided and Voluntary Controlled schools, academies should seek advice from their Multi Academy Trust.
Voluntary Aided schools usually access their Devolved Formula Capitla (DFC) through the Diocese of Norwich Pooling Scheme. Please see DFC project form below to set up a project.
The Diocese of Norwich and Diocese of Ipswich and St Edmundsbury share a School Capital Allocation (SCA). SCA bidding forms are available year round, but the main bidding round runs from 1st July – 31st October, for projects commencing the following April. The annual SCA allocation is managed by the Diocese School Estates and Capital Funding (SECF) Committee. Please refer to the Prioritisation of SCA projects form for guidance on projects that are likley to be funded.
We offer introductory training for new staff, covering a range of subjects, many of which are listed below.
- Building projects and advice
- Landownership questions
- Processes for making building alterations.
- Trust Deeds
- Subletting
- Acaemy Conversion land matters
- Net Zero Carbon
- Capital Funding advice.
- Bidding for SCA funding
- Setting up new DFC projects
- The Diocese Pooling Scheme
Your contacts are:
The Bishop’s Lent Appeal 2026
This year the Bishop of Norwich’s Lent Appeal is raising money for the people of Papua New Guinea. More specifically, all money raised in 2026 will directly help children from clergy families
How Church of England is leading way to cleaner mining – Bishop of Norwich in House of Lords
The role of the Church of England Pensions Board in tackling the tragic human and environmental cost of abandoned mines and mining waste was revealed by the Bishop of Norwich
Week of Prayer for Christian Unity 2026
Running this year from Sunday 18 January to Sunday 25 January 2026, the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity (WPCU) is an annual ecumenical observance where Christians of diverse traditions
Three generations of same family star in South Walsham carol service
The festive season at St Mary’s, South Walsham featured a carol service including a joint performance from local senior and school choirs – an event which united three generations of
Plough Sunday tradition celebrated across the Diocese of Norwich
A gloriously sunny Sunday morning brought out the crowds in Cawston to support the reinvented Plough Sunday procession. Over the last four years, the tradition has been reborn in Cawston
Carols in a cow barn, carols at Britain’s biggest Christmas show and carols in the Cathedral – December in the diocese with the Bishop of Norwich
Carols in a cow barn was one of the highlights of Christmas for the Bishop of Norwich. He joined the people of Thornage for a carol service at Thornage Hall.