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Stewardship and Generosity Self Assessment
This process document is designed primarily for PCCs. It may help PCCs review what steps might reasonably be taken to develop parish stewardship.
Financial Stewardship Campaign Materials
Across the Church of England many parishes have found that developing a financial stewardship programme helps to increase parish income. The downloadable document below provides links to numerous resources that have been used by parishes when planning such programmes. Some of these are more suited to small parishes, others are more likely to be appropriate for medium to large parishes.
The Offertory
Irrespective of whether a bag or plate is passed around during worship, it can still be brought forward so that the gifts of God’s people are offered as a part of worship. This document is a resource to help parishes explore the offering.
Parish Reserves
Church of England guidance for PCCs as charity trustees can be found via the link below:
A reserves Policy Template:
Fundraising Compliance
It is important that fundraising complies with fundraising regulations. The link below is to the Funding Regulator’s Code of Practice:
Church of England Parish Resources has produced a simple guidance document for churches, which highlights the values underpinned within the Code and some of the key standards that apply to all giving.
Other Stewardship Resources
‘Stewardship’ was set up in 1906 by a group of Christians with a vision to provide financial support to Christian ministries in the UK and overseas. As a registered charity, it provides a range of giving accounts to facilitate tax efficient giving to charitable causes in the UK and beyond.
For individuals ‘Stewardship’ provides a ‘Giving Account’ which allows donors to give to their local church and to other charities using one account – all of which can be administered via a phone ‘app’.
Parishes wishing to receive donations via the ‘Giving Account’ need to open a Partner Account with ‘Stewardship’. If your church is not a registered charity, when completing the online application form, confirm that your church is ‘excepted or exempt‘ from registration, supply your parish’s HMRC gift aid number and attach a scan/photo of correspondence from HMRC which shows this.
A ‘Giving Account’ gives donors the ability to manage their giving to different causes using one account. Donors can be anonymous if they wish.