WAYS OF DONATING TO ST MARY’S CHURCH

If you are a UK tax payer you can simply fill in a Gift Aid form (available on the website or from the Parish Office). This means that we can claim back 25p on every £1 you donate at no extra cost to you.

DONATION BY CARD

If you would like to make a donation by card on our new machines it would be easier to do this before Mass so that big queues can be avoided after Mass. If you are a UK tax payer and would like the church to collect gift aid on your donations it is easy to fill in your details on the card machine. This is a one-off operation and all donations made on the same card after this will be automatically gift aided. You will be asked for your email address but this is just an added security measure to make sure that it is you using the card, and to give you a receipt for your records. Any information you give on these machines is only shared with HMRC and is under the General Data Protection Regulations.

THERE IS now a donation button on the first page of our website. Donations made this way can be gift aided

DONATING BY TEXT

You can now donate via your phone.

To donate £5 text Offertory 5 to 70470

To donate £10 text Offertory 10 to 70470

To donate £20 text Offertory 20 to 70470

Donations can be gift-aided. Just follow the instructions on your phone screen.

Texts cost your donation plus one standard rate message and you’ll be opting in to hear more about our work and fundraising via telephone and SMS. If you’d like to give a donation but do not wish to receive marketing communications, text OFFERTORYNOINFO & the amount to 70470

BANK TRANSFER OR STANDING ORDER

Name: St Mary’s Church A/c No. 10826103:

Sort Code: 20-21-78 Bank: Barclays Ref: Your name

CASH

Just put cash into the collection or if you are a UK tax payer and would like your donations to be gift aided you can fill in a Gift Aid form (available on the website or from the Parish Office) and ask the office for gift aid envelopes. We can claim back 25p on every £1 you donate.

FOR YOUR INFORMATION

INCOME PER MONTH £6,910

OUTGOINGS PER MONTH £9,800 i.e. money needed to keep St Mary’s Church open for your worship, your children’s and grandchildren’s baptisms, weddings, funerals, First Holy Communion classes, Confirmation classes, RCIA classes

DEFICIT £2,890 i.e. about £722.50 a week

THESE FIGURES ARE APPROXIMATE AND DO NOT COVER EVERY SINGLE EXPENSE. THEY DO NOT COVER ANY PHYSICAL UPKEEP OR REDECORATION OF THE CHURCH. FOR INSTANCE – THE CHURCH GUTTERS WERE CLEARED RECENTLY AT A COST OF £1,100.