Our services for churches and church institutions
Tailor-made insurance concepts for tangible assets, buildings and community activities
Specific insurance concepts and cover
Insuring church-specific risks has been one of our core business areas since our foundation. This is why around 21,000 parishes and church institutions rely on our decades of experience and our special expertise. We offer optimal insurance options with church-specific insurance concepts.
The insured properties include historic church buildings with their artifacts or works of art, parsonages, parish halls, schools, offices, cemeteries, libraries and social facilities. But activities such as church services, sacraments, prayer groups and pastoral care, educational or youth programs, Bible study groups, youth groups and adult education can also be carried out professionally and worry-free with the right insurance cover.
Comprehensive solutions in one insurance package
Whether diocese, regional church or individual parish: we offer our customers a comprehensive package of insurance solutions.
Our offer is based on collective contracts and framework agreements that can be used to insure individual church organizations.
We ensure that the church is optimally insured in its function as an employer and operator of various facilities and will remain so in the future. In order to provide comprehensive cover for a church with its diverse tasks and facilities, various types of insurance are essential to ensure that the physical facilities, activities and people within the community are always optimally protected.
We also develop special products that are based on the particular requirements of churches. For example, many churches have historically owned large forests, which not only need to be managed but also insured. This is because forest owners bear a high risk, as a forest fire or storm can have devastating financial consequences. This is why the Ecclesia Group now also offers forest insurance.
Another special requirement is cover for employees working abroad, for example on behalf of the church or church institutions on aid or development missions in regions with a high crisis potential. We also find the right cover for the many volunteers and managers, as they all work with groups of people who are often particularly vulnerable.
Protection of employees and volunteers
Churches and church institutions have specific risks arising from their work with vulnerable groups such as children, the elderly, people with disabilities or the sick. We specialize in this risk profile and know the right insurance solutions for the safety of your clientele. Employees and volunteers in church facilities are often exposed to particular physical and psychological stress. Special insurance policies such as professional indemnity insurance or accident insurance offer protection and support in the event of a claim.
Fleet management
Churches and church institutions often have a large fleet of vehicles to meet their diverse mobility requirements. However, fleet management is complex and involves major challenges. With our Mobility ecosystem, we offer you an all-round service for sustainable and economically efficient fleet management. We support you with integrated solutions for telematics, maintenance management, cost control and much more to optimally manage and operate your fleet.
Special insurance solutions
Thanks to our very good market position and close relationships with insurers, we can negotiate better conditions for you. We also use this negotiating power to develop insurance products that help our customers. For example, special public liability insurance, including for people who work in workshops for the disabled, or a newly developed tenant protection policy which covers private landlords who provide accommodation for clients of social institutions.
Safety on excursions, group trips and camps
Anyone organizing a trip, excursion or event knows how important it is to offer participants unforgettable experiences. However, every activity has its own challenges and risks. In the work of churches and church institutions, the focus is often on particularly vulnerable groups - children, young people, senior citizens or people with disabilities. These people trust you and your services, and you want to live up to this responsibility. This is precisely where specially tailored insurance cover for joint activities is essential. Fortunately, you can rely on our tailor-made insurance solutions.
Protection for employees and volunteers abroad
Churches and church institutions frequently organize aid missions, often in troubled and therefore potentially dangerous regions of the world. With our Travel Risk Management, you can provide the necessary protection for employees and volunteers on foreign assignments. In addition to a comprehensive and tailor-made insurance package, our experts also support you in preparing for such assignments and help you to find the right cooperation partners so that you can intervene on site in an emergency.
Our insurance cover for voluntary work
Voluntary work is important for our community - and deserves great recognition. To ensure that the associated risks are optimally covered, we have developed specialized accident and liability insurance solutions on the initiative of the German federal states, which focus on protecting volunteer work.
For many years, we have been the first point of contact for many federal states when it comes to insuring volunteers. For example, we manage the collective liability and accident insurance policies for volunteers in Rhineland-Palatinate, North Rhine-Westphalia, Berlin, Brandenburg, Baden-Württemberg, Schleswig-Holstein, Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Hamburg and Saarland.
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