Charitable giving

Besides the Church Charity, there are three other ways in which the church gives 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 (2010-11).

Second, 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 to counter the effects of the famine in Somalia.

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

Donations from church income (2010-11)

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.

Methodist
	Methodist Church Fund for World Mission including Easter Offering	£3,400
	Methodist Church Fund for Home Mission	£1,720
	Methodist Relief & Development Fund	£750
	Methodist Church Fund for Property	£500
	NCH Action for Children	£400
	Queenswood Amenity Fund	£150
	Ministers Retirement Auxiliary Fund	£100
	LWPT (formerly LPMA)	£100
	Grace worker	£100
	Methodist Ministers Housing Society	£100
	Circuit Training Fund	£50
Other
	Hope café [formerly ‘Parish Pantry’]	£550
	Broxtowe Women’s Project	£200
	Women’s Friendship Group	£100
	Gitare School, Kenya	£100
	The Friary Drop-in Centre	£100
	Home-Start	£100
	Corrymeela Community	£100
	Association of Young People with ME	£100
	Fairtrade Beeston	£100
	Hope NG9	£100
	St John’s College	£100
TOTAL		£8,520