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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 (2008-09).

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. Recently we sent money for relief efforts after the earthquake in Haiti.

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  
(2009-09)

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.

Church charity 2011

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).

The Church Charity for 2011 is Reap India (formerly Harvest India). This charity is a Christian-based charity that works in the Andhra Pradesh region of India.

The Church is supporting two projects in the Tenali area of Andhra Pradesh: a daycare centre for Yanadhi children and a home for the elderly.One of the Young People from the Junior Church went out to work with the charity in 2009, and is returning in August this year to visit the projects the Church is supporting.

In 2010 the Women’s Friendship Group for Asylum-seekers and Refugees was chosen as the UK charity for that year. It provides a day-centre with crèche facilities at the Vine Centre in Hyson Green, Nottingham for women who have very little other support. It operates under the financial umbrella of Nottingham Refugee Action. In 2009 the (overseas) church charity was Casa Alianza which works with Street Children and Homeless Young People in Central America . In 2008 the (UK) church charity was the  Lincoln and Notts Air Ambulance . In 2007 the (overseas) church charity was   Clinics and Classrooms  .   This project raised £15,900 shared between (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.