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Church House Publishing

8 May 2009

The Archbishops’ Council is in discussion with Hymns Ancient & Modern with a view to outsourcing the Council’s publishing services. The proposed agreement would maintain the Council’s long-term commitment to publishing liturgy, key reference titles and other resources for the Church.

Subject to contract, the Council would continue to publish a range of titles to support the ministry and mission of the Church under its Church House Publishing imprint, with Hymns Ancient & Modern (HA&M) acting as its production and marketing arm. HA&M already provide customer service and distribution services to Church House Publishing and act as agents for the sale of advertising space in Crockford’s Clerical Directory and The Church of England Year Book.

HA&M have provided a similar range of services to the Methodist Church for their Epworth imprint for more than 25 years. In 2006, HA&M took over Church House Bookshop, Great Smith Street, London, from the Archbishops’ Council.

Consultations involving Church House Publishing staff are ongoing

Notes

Church House Publishing (a publishing imprint of the Archbishops’ Council) had a turnover of just under £1m in 2008. It produces around 40 new titles a year, including essential tools of the Church of England’s ministry such as Common Worship, the Church of England Year Book, and Crockford’s Clerical Directory.

Hymns A&M Ltd is a registered charity, with the objects of promoting the advancement of religion and supporting charities and institutions connected with, or sympathetic to the ideals of, the Church of England. Turnover in the 12 months to 30 September 2008 was £5.8 million.

In the last full financial year, financial support amounting to more than £72k was distributed by the charity. It publishes under its own imprints – Canterbury Press, SCM Press and RMEP – and provides distribution services to a range of publishers, including Church House Publishing, Darton, Longman and Todd and the Royal School of Church Music. Hymns A&M Ltd currently employs 70 staff in East Anglia and London.