Crunch time is fast approaching at Anglican Media, where we have to decide which half of our output is cut.

Due the Diocese's financial losses and subsequent cut to our grant, we will have much less staff hours to do all the hard yards keeping this site running.

This is your last chance to influence our decision-making by participating in our online survey on the future of Sydneyanglicans.net

Results so far

Not wishing to pre-empt the final results, I'll only give away just one potential conclusion.

At the moment the survey is suggesting that just over half of core Sydneyanglicans.net readers are clergy or paid lay ministers. Only 30 percent are ordinary parishioners.

Taken together, our recent surveys suggest that a majority of readers of the website are clergy or other paid churchworkers. This website is primarily serving evangelical clergy, in Sydney diocese, elsewhere in Australia as well as overseas.

In contrast, the website is read by very few lay Sydney Anglicans.

The surveys suggest that about 25 percent of Sydney Anglican churchworkers read Sydneyanglicans.net at least weekly in comparison to under 5 percent of parishioners.

Looking even more deeply at the data, we see that virtually all rectors aged under 45 read this site regularly.

An obvious conclusion might be to play to our strengths and tailor this site to meet the needs of younger ministers.

Do you think this is a sensible way forward?

If so - what sections should we retain? What should we dump? And what new content should we include?

I'm not picking on the website. The same kind of scythe will also be taken to Southern Cross.

Southern Cross cuts

After the qualitative phase of the research, the letters page was looking like a likely candidate to be culled. However this suggestion has received a very cold response in subsequent feedback and focus groups.

So, I'm also keen to gauge your gut feeling about dumping SC's letter page.