Burned rubbish around church and credit centre (7)
I believe the answer is:
torched
'burned' is the definition.
(torching is a kind of burning)
'rubbish around church and credit centre' is the wordplay.
'rubbish' becomes 'rot' (both can mean nonsense).
'around' says the letters should be written backwards.
'church' becomes 'ch' (common abbreviation).
'and' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other).
'credit centre' becomes 'ed' (I can't explain this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'rot' reversed gives 'tor'.
'tor'+'ch'+'ed'='TORCHED'
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for torched that I've seen before include "burnt" , "Set fire to" , "Set alight deliberately (slang)" .)