Money for Mission - Issue 21 - Finance Update for Clergy, Church Treasurers and Fundraisers

Money For Mission

News From The

Stewardship and Income Generation and Finance Teams

In This Issue

What's On ✝ Parish Feedback Questionnaire

PGS ✝ Grants ✝ Digital Update

News From the Finance Team

Charity Commission News

Who's Who

What's On

Brand New

Grants Surgery from the Stewardship and Income Generation Team

The information received from the parish feedback questionnaire indicated that you would like us to offer more help with grants.

Consequently we are introducing monthly grant surgeries. These will be held on the first Thursday of each month at 12 noon and 6pm to talk about available grants and discuss the application process. Please do join us for this informal information sharing and discussion session.

Join Grant Surgery, Thursday 4th February 12noon-1pm Meeting ID: 826 7317 5491 Passcode: 819104

Join Grant Surgery, Thursday 4th February 6-7pm Meeting ID: 857 5385 4666 Passcode: 291271

Brand New

The National Lottery Heritage Grants, Briefing

Nathan Lee, The Head of Engagement for the North for the National Lottery Heritage Fund will be giving a special briefing for parishes in the Diocese of Leeds about Heritage Lottery money. This will not be a briefing on the new Cultural Recovery Fund that is available presently but on more general grants available.

Please do join us to find out about Heritage Lottery Grants available for your church.

The National Lottery Heritage Grants

Thursday 11th February 2021 12noon to 1:00pm

and repeated at 6pm-7:00pm

Join The National Lottery Heritage Grants Briefing, Thursday 11th February 2021, 12noon to 1pm Meeting ID: 828 1091 7035 Passcode: 373696

Join The National Lottery Heritage Grants Briefing, Thursday 11th February 2021, 6-7pm Meeting ID: 875 4218 1131 Passcode: 789332

Brand New

The Generosity Week and Toolkit

Using information recently developed by the National Church Of England's Giving Team, Becky Nicholson, Lead Stewardship Officer at The Diocese of Leeds will show a wide variety of resources, guidance and inspiration for encouraging giving to your church and for growing generosity. Viewing the previous session called 'Building a Generous Church' is also advised

The sessions are particularly useful for Clergy and anyone involved in giving and generosity in their church.

The Generosity Week and Toolkit

Wednesday 28th January 2021 12noon to 1:00pm

and repeated at 6pm-7:00pm

Join Webinar 'The Generosity Week and Toolkit' 27th January 2021 12noon- 1pm Meeting ID: 889 6747 2959 Passcode: 436518

Join Webinar 'The Generosity Week and Toolkit' 27th January 2021 6pm-7pm Meeting ID: 875 3805 8886 Passcode: 502291

Webinars from The National Church of England Giving Team

The team have launched many new and useful webinars that are open to all. Topics include:

Online Giving
Contactless Giving
Legacy Giving
Generous Disciples
Giving Essentials
Buying Smarter
Clergy and Laity Training

To view more information and to book, visit their webinars and training page

Parish Feedback Questionnaire

***deadline extended***

Thank you to everyone who completed the parish feedback questionnaire. We have had 144 responses so far. If you haven't done so already, please do take a look and complete it to help us plan and support you.

The questions take no longer than 10 minutes to complete and ask how much Share you estimate being able to pay in 2021 and the type of support you need to run your church finances.

To access the Parish Feedback Questionnaire please click here.

The questionnaire will now remain open until 31st January 2021

Can You Participate in the PGS Online Pilot Programme?

Leeds diocese is one of five dioceses across the country participating in a ‘live pilot’ to introduce donors to a new online method for setting up regular giving via the Parish Giving Scheme website. This new online method will add to and complement the paper gift form and telephone methods currently available.

If your parish is already PGS registered and you would like to participate in the pilot by encouraging a few members of your congregation to join the PGS online then please contact Janet Edmond, Stewardship Officer, for more details: janet.edmond@leeds.anglican.org

IMPORTANT - PGS registered parishes who have remaining stocks of the April 2017 PGS Paper Gift Form please note that this gift form is no longer valid. A new updated Gift Form dated February 2020 is now available from Janet Edmond.

New Church Maintenance Webinars

Members of our Stewardship & DAC teams, in collaboration with Ecclesiastical Insurance, will host a series of webinars on February 10th, 24th and March 17th offering advice on how to maintain your church building & churchyard, develop a maintenance plan, source grant funding, permissions for church building works and Health & Safety.

If you and your churchwarden would like to attend the webinars please find further details on link opposite.

How to Join Maintenance Webinars

Grants

Culture Recovery Fund for Heritage: Second Round

The Cultural Recovery Fund for Heritage is now open for applications. Not all churches will be eligible but it is worth taking a look if your church is historically significant and needs assistance to get back onto a financially sustainable footing.

Read more
www.heritagefund.org.uk

New project funding and loans to support sector resilience

The Heritage Lottery Fund has now begun a phased reopening of their project grants scheme - applications are now open for grants of £3,000 - £10,000 and £10,000 - £100,000 from February 2021. Loans are also available for previous grant recipients....

Read more
www.heritagefund.org.uk

Local Connections Fund | The National Lottery Community Fund

The Local Connections Fund is a new £4 million fund to help charities and community groups in England that are working to reduce loneliness by helping them build connections across their communities.

Read more
www.tnlcommunityfund.org.uk

Hope Beyond | Thematic Programme

The Hope Beyond grants programme aims to enable churches and Christian charities to meet changing needs within their communities. Hope Beyond will also provide funding for capital projects...

Read more
www.allchurches.co.uk

Volant Charitable Trust

The Volant Trust accepts applications from charities that demonstrate a strong focus on alleviating social deprivation and helping vulnerable groups who have been impacted by the covid pandemic...

Read more
www.volanttrust.org

Later Life - The Masonic Charitable Foundation

The Masonic Charitable Foundation makes grants under two main funding streams: Children and Young People and later Life Inclusion - working to reduce loneliness and isolation in later life.

Read more
mcf.org.uk

Fundraising Webinars | Church Fundraising

Do you need help and advice with applying for grants? Ecclesiastical Insurance have developed webinars for churches in collaboration with the Philanthropy Company. We hope you find them helpful as our communities come back together.

Read more
www.ecclesiastical.com

Heritage Funding Directory

The Heritage Funding Directory is a free guide to financial support for anyone undertaking UK related heritage projects.

Read more
www.heritagefundingdirector...

Other useful grants for churches are listed in the Charitable Grants for Churches Directory.

Hear from local and national funders

Community Matters Yorkshire are holding an online funding fair where you can find out how local and national funders can support you....

Read more
community-matters.org.uk

Churches Facing Budget Cuts Helped By Trust130 | Latest News

Every time a new customer takes out a new home insurance policy with the Ecclesiastical it offers to donate £130 to the church or cathedral of that customer’s choice.

Read more
www.ecclesiastical.com

Digital Update

Are you still wondering which digital donation or payment collection device to buy? The team at the Diocese of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich have produced a handy quick-glance guide which you can download here.

From the Finance Team

APCMs need to be held by 31^st May 2021, the requirement to submit a copy of the annual report and accounts to the Diocesan Board of Finance remains as being 28 days after the date of the APCM.

The returns of Parish Finance should be completed by 18^th June 2021 and the deadline for the submission of Statistics for Mission is 4th April 2021.

The Diocese no longer hold block membership to ACAT - The Association of Church Accountants and Treasurers. But you can still buy individual membership and submit your paid invoice to finance@leeds.anglican.org for reimbursement.

Charity Commission News

Charity Commission registration exemption is now extended for churches with income of under £100,000 for ten years to 31st March 2031. The relevant legislation can be viewed by following the link below.

https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2021/55/made.