Cashless Society

Thank you for bearing with us through the renovations to the website. Hopefully you are finding the current offering helpful and informative. Now we are finished, we can offer recurring donations online. Please consider this as the new form of the offertory collection. If everyone receiving this by email were to contribute £5 weekly, this would easily eclipse all other giving we receive in total. If this seems too much, perhaps consider, say, £10 monthly: it’s up to you.

If you are a UK taxpayer, Gift Aid permission gives us an extra 25p on every £1 you give. If you are a higher rate tax payer, you claim the rest of your tax paid on your donations made with Gift Aid. So a donation of £400 becomes £500 for the parish, but only costs you £300! If you make an account on our website, you have control of your payments, and can track your total donations for the tax year. You should include your Donations on your tax return, giving you your tax rebate. Gift Aid is a government incentive for donating to charities: please take advantage of it! Increase the amount you give at no cost to you, and—if you unfortunately find yourself in a higher tax bracket—then your giving will also give you some cash back.

Collecting and processing the offertory plate takes the time of many volunteers. If you can switch to online donations, this burden will could evaporate completely…