WE LAUNCHED our survey assessing the vulnerability of clergy and lay ministers to burnout a few weeks ago (News, 24 April). Since then, we have had a very encouraging response, and several organisations and networks are promoting it among their members.

This survey gives you feedback on your well-being; so we are hoping that this venture will lead to a useful way for individuals and churches to keep track of well-being, which is such an important aspect of church life these days. The survey is still running; so, if you are ordained, or a lay minister with a teaching or preaching ministry, there is still time to take part.

The Francis Burnout Inventory (FBI) is a measure of work-related well-being which was developed some years ago specifically for the clergy. It measures two things related to ministry: emotional exhaustion and satisfaction.

Over the past two decades, we and other researchers have used the FBI to explore aspects of clergy well-being. We have accrued enough data from a wide range of Christian ministers to know what sorts of levels of emotional exhaustion and satisfaction are typical, what factors are associated with different levels, and some of the consequences of those different levels.

Completing the survey will take about ten minutes. We hope that enough people will take part so that we can refine the tool if necessary and make it even more useful in the effort needed to ensure that ministers can continue to fulfil their calling in healthy and satisfying ways.

For access to the survey, visit tinyurl.com/FBISTRev or scan the QR code.

If you represent a diocese or network and would like to use the survey in your context, please contact us at a.village@yorksj.ac.uk to discuss how we can best help you.

The Revd Andrew Village is a professor emeritus, and Canon Leslie J. Francis is a visiting professor, at York St John University.