Grants for Church Buildings ✝ Council and Other Grants

Generous Church Support ✝ Digital Giving Drop-ins

PGS ✝ Legacy Giving

The aim of these grants is to support churches with maintaining and improving their church buildings, as vital centres of worship, community and mission. Find out more here.

Council Grants

We are often asked if Local Authorities provide grants for smaller church mission activities and the answer is yes if money is available, and only if the activity is non-religious in nature. Other criteria may also apply but it is well worth exploring if your council can help. We have collated as many as we can find in our Diocese.

Some of the links below go to email addresses so you can make your own enquiries and some to websites:

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

For a while now we have been visiting parishes to help them understand their finances with a financial review. We are pleased to tell you that we can also offer a giving review. We will come to speak to your PCC or church members about growing a generous church and the discussion will be based around the themes shown in the film below.

You can also download a Giving Review Prompt Sheet to do your own giving review and see our updated web pages

The Church of England recommends that a PCC carries out an annual giving review so get in touch now if we can help you.

Have you yet to get started with online giving or has it not really taken off in your church? Well join us for our next Digital Giving Drop-in when we will be discussing the 'Online Giving Sandwich' which will really raise the profile of this method of giving to your congregation.

All the details of upcoming sessions will be in Money For Mission and you can follow what is happening on our digital giving webpages.

If you’ve not yet heard about the new PGS Digital Service why not join our next PGS Goes Digital Zoom meeting on Monday 29^th March at 12 noon to find out how this new service works and explore the benefits it can bring to your parish.

The new digital service, launched nationally on 1^st March, offers donors a new online method for setting up regular giving via the Parish Giving Scheme website, adding to and complementing the paper gift form and telephone methods currently available.

More than 85 parishes in the Diocese of Leeds have now registered for the PGS and continue to feedback their positive PGS stories through short videos. Listen to some of the latest PGS video stories, including one from Leeds Minster, here. 

If your PCC has been considering joining the PGS but still has some unanswered questions you may like to join one of our new monthly PGS Zoom Clinics due to start on Monday April 19^th at 12 noon and repeated at 6pm. The clinics, hosted by your PGS representative Janet Edmond, will be informal and open to all and are intended to act as a forum allowing your PGS experiences to be shared and your PGS queries to be answered! It’s also a chance for Janet to share with you the latest PGS developments!

Reminder: PGS paper gift forms dated April 2017 are no longer valid for use. Contact Janet Edmond for a supply of updated forms.

Ecclesiastical Insurance Group are running a Zoom presentation for the Diocese of Leeds on Wednesday 21^st April entitled “Fundraising in a Box - An overview and introduction into successful fundraising”.  The session will be led by Insurance Consultant Heather Ford. 

If you need some inspiration to get the legacy conversation started, visit the Church Print Hub where you can order many free resources for display in your church.

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.

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