Free guide for church leaders
Make sense of digital, without the tech speak.
Practical, jargon-free guidance on digital and AI for UK churches - whatever your size or denomination. Start with the AI Starter Guide for Church Leaders: ten real tasks, tool comparisons and how to keep church data safe. Free, and no strings attached.
The AI Starter Guide for Church Leaders, as a PDF. Free, no email needed.
One job a week for your church, every Wednesday
Each issue brings one idea worth thinking about, a few good reads and one thing your church could do that week.
Coming up: getting Advent and Christmas services found online, 21 and 28 October.
Coming up: getting Advent and Christmas services found online, 28 October.
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Written for every tradition
- Anglican
- Methodist
- Baptist
- Catholic
- URC
- Pentecostal
- Independent
More than a decade leading digital for UK charities and churches, written up for the people doing it.
Why this exists
Most churches know they need to do more online. They just don't know where to start.
That's the gap Church Digital Strategy exists to close - honest, practical help that works for the smallest rural chapel and the busiest city-centre church alike. No pressure, no hype and no assuming you have a comms team.
- 16
- free guides, ready to download
- 7
- topic areas, from websites to AI
- £0
- to get started - always
What you get
Practical help, not more theory.
Guides you can use today
Checklists and templates you can pick up and use the same afternoon - not forty-page strategy documents that sit in a drawer.
Honest AI advice
What's genuinely useful for churches, what to ignore and how to use new tools safely - without losing the human touch.
Made for any church
Any size, any denomination. Plain English, with no assumptions about your budget, your team or your tech know-how.
Free guides
Start with one of these.
AI and Emerging Tech
AI Starter Guide for Church Leaders
A practical introduction to AI for church leaders with 10 real tasks, tool comparisons and data safety guidance.
Data and Compliance
Church GDPR Checklist
A comprehensive GDPR compliance checklist for UK churches covering data handling, consent, breaches and ICO registration.
Digital Foundations
Church Digital Health Check - Self-Assessment
A scored self-assessment tool to evaluate your church's digital maturity across website, social media and data.
Why this exists
"We kept meeting churches falling behind online - not for lack of passion, but because the digital world felt overwhelming. Church Digital Strategy is our attempt to translate mission into practical steps any church can take."
More than a decade leading digital for UK charities and churches, written up as the practical guidance we wish had existed at the time.
Questions
Before you get started.
Is it really free?
Yes. Every guide downloads free - no payment and no catch. The Wired for Good newsletter is free too; it's simply how we stay in touch and share what's new.
Which denominations is this for?
All of them. The guidance is written to work across traditions - Anglican, Methodist, Baptist, Catholic, URC, Pentecostal, independent - and flags clearly whenever something is specific to one.
What's Wired for Good?
Our free newsletter: short, practical digital and AI ideas for churches. No spam, and you can unsubscribe in one click.
What happens to my email?
We use it only to send you Wired for Good. The guides are not emailed - they download straight from the site, whether or not you sign up. We never sell or share your address, and you can unsubscribe at any time.
Do I need to be technical?
Not at all. Everything is written for ministers and volunteers, not IT professionals. If you can use email, you can use these guides.
Start with one guide.
Free to download, easy to use and made for churches like yours.
The AI Starter Guide for Church Leaders, as a PDF. Free, no email needed.
One job a week for your church, every Wednesday
Each issue brings one idea worth thinking about, a few good reads and one thing your church could do that week.
Coming up: getting Advent and Christmas services found online, 21 and 28 October.
Coming up: getting Advent and Christmas services found online, 28 October.
Add your email and we'll send you Wired for Good, a weekly Wednesday email on digital and AI for UK churches, from Church Digital Strategy. One click unsubscribes you from any issue. How we handle your data.
Free · No jargon · Unsubscribe anytime
We try hard to get everything here right, and every guide and template shows when it was last reviewed. But they are free, they are general and things change: the law, prices and the tools themselves. We cannot guarantee they are complete, current or right for your church, so check anything you rely on and take professional advice where a decision matters.