Our Parishioners have responded brilliantly to our last appeal and our weekly giving is well up on last year. There are still a number of donors who have yet to sign up for the envelope scheme and we continue to lose out on the tax we could be reclaiming for there existing giving.
The figures for last year showed we made a small surplus of approximately £1,100. Now that we have our own priest we have to pay for the maintenance of the church and the presbytery. With costs going up generally our spend has risen significantly and this year we need to raise about £750 each week to cover our various expenses including the annual reduction to the Diocesan Loan of £6000.
If you would like to volunteer to be a member of the Finance Committee, then please click here.
The graph below shows are cumulative income against our expected annual expenditure for 2007. Our income is drawn primarily from your offertory gifts during the year. The second graph shows the percentage breakdown of expenditure for 2006
The table below shows the average weekly offertory made by the people of the parish for the last 5 months.
| Offertories | January 08 | February 08 | March 08 |
April 08 |
May 08 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Gift Aided Envelopes |
£146 |
£137 |
£146 |
£135 |
£115 |
Loose Plate |
£65 |
£79 |
£75 |
£103 |
£83 |
Bank Standing Orders |
£200 |
£205 |
£225 |
£220 |
£225 |
Total |
£411 |
£421 |
£446 |
£458 |
£423 |
If you are a UK taxpayer, our church is able to reclaim, on your behalf, the basic rate of tax (22%) you have already paid on any of your donations. The only criteria is that your donations are able to be traced to you directly. We can do this by completion of a gift aid form and either provide you with a giving envelope for weekly donations in church or, alternatively, you complete a standing order form on which you can decide how much you wish to donate either monthly, quarterly or annually.
If you already use a standing order, you may want to change your donation - simply contact your bank and instruct them of the new amount.
If you want to complete a Gift Aid declaration form your can download one here. Please complete it and return it to the Priest in Charge at the address shown here.
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