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Church charity

There are four separate aspects to our church’s giving to charity.

First, we give away 10% of our ordinary income (church offertory together with its Gift Aid tax refund). See below for what happened in the last completed church financial year (2006-07).

Second, each calendar year we adopt one or two charities (alternately UK and overseas) for which we raise money through special events and concerts as well as regular coffee mornings (see below for details).

Third, we make a collection for the Methodist Relief & Development Fund whenever there is an appeal by the Disasters Emergency Committee. In 2005 we sent a total of £1284 (including Gift Aid tax refund) for disaster relief in SE Asia (tsunami, January), Niger (famine, July) and Pakistan (earthquake, October).

Fourth, the church organises annual house-to-house collections for Christian Aid and NCH , and we normally donate our Christmas Day offertory to NCH. The Beeston Benevolent Society’s Carol Choir also collects money at Christmas for local beneficiaries.

Donations from the 10% of church giving
(2006-07)

Each year the church donates 10% of its ordinary income (including the tax relief on gift-aided offertories) to Methodist funds, to local and overseas Methodist groups, and to non-Methodist charities and groups suggested by the congregation.

Many individuals and church groups make their own donations to their favourite charities, so the bulk of our money goes to mainstream Methodist funds.

Each year the church adopts a specific charity for which we raise money through concerts and special events as well as coffee mornings. In alternate years we collect for a UK charity (usually with local involvement) and then an overseas charity (normally one with which the church has some links).

In 2008 the (UK) church charity is the Lincoln and Notts Air Ambulance.

In 2007 the (overseas) church charity was Clinics and Classrooms . This project raised £15,900 for (a) the extension of a health centre clinic run by the Ethiopian Lutheran Church in Dilla , a remote village in western Ethiopia, and (b) for a new classroom block at Kokeqelo Community High School, a school aided by the United Church of the Solomon Islands.

In 2006 the (UK) church charity was the Broxtowe Women's Project which provides services for the prevention of domestic abuse and support for local women.

In 2005 the joint (overseas) church charities were Send a Cow and the International Fellowship of Reconciliation.

The Church Council will decide on the 2009 UK charity next October, on the nomination of the Mission Management Group.