We are obviously aware, as a Church, that millions of
people are going to be struggling to survive over the coming months, as nearly
every aspect of daily life sees sharp price rises.
If you are experiencing financial hardship or mounting
debts please seek help through organisations like Stepchange https://www.stepchange.org/ or
Christians Against Poverty https://capuk.org/
We value all the contributions that are made towards
keeping our church and the other churches in our benefice going; the financial
support we receive goes into maintaining a great variety of work including
pastoral visiting, visits to care homes, all the ‘Silver’ activities (Silver
Film, Silver Games and Silver Crafts), church services across all 3 churches,
Bible Studies, Childrens work and FIG services etc; we are also liaising with
Brightwell to provide support during Rev Toby Tate’s sabbatical.
We want Playford, Little Bealings and Kesgrave to
remain centres of spiritual hope and social activity as the lockdowns certainly
showed that loneliness and isolation greatly undermined physical and mental
health.
All methods of Giving remain available, Donate Button above: Green Button for General
Giving.
Please see below for all other
methods of giving particularly the improved Parish Giving Scheme system which
allows you to set up a DD online. (If
you are new to our church, please consider this way of giving.)
If you would like to
support our Church financially a simple BACS payment can be made to:
Co-op
Bank Sort Code: 08-92-99
Account No: 65453375
The name on the Account
is:
Kesgrave Parochial Church Council
If you can also Gift Aid
your donation, please print off a Gift Aid form from the website or collect a
form from the church and then contact me.
Regular Giving
(Direct Debit)
For regular giving please
contact the Parish Giving Scheme (PGS) : this is a direct debit scheme,
with built-in options for Gift Aid and inflation proofed giving.
There are now
three options for signing up:
You can sign up by phone:
0333 002 1271, or by filling in an ASK-specific form
and posting it off or by using the new online direct debit system:
and set up an online Direct Debit donation
straightaway. (If you are wanting to
donate as a couple then it may be easier if just one person signs up, as the
Gift Aid option, for example, can only apply to individuals.
The other sign-up options are still available:
telephone applications and paper forms (from me). The original packs that I was sent will not
be valid after March 2021 but I can print off ASK-specific forms for anyone who
would like them.
The information needed is the name of the church,
the Parish Code 330633093and
the Diocese (St Eds and Ips)
If you have any queries at all please contact me or
log onto their website; the PGS offers both Gift Aid and “Inflation-proofed”
options (and both are entirely optional!)
If you buy goods or services online, please look into signing up for
Give-As-You-Live
and
Amazon Smile
. They make a real difference to us, as each time you buy something online the company you buy from donates to us, without costing you anything! The amount that companies donate to us varies widely from
0.5% of your spend to as high as 10% on special days so it really is worth doing!
Give-As-You-Live
works at most online stores, utilities, and services (e.g. Hughes, booking.com, BT, Sky, ...), and is very easy to use as once registered you simply shop as normal. When using Amazon, it's best to
use
smile.amazon.co.uk
instead of amazon.co.uk (it works the same way as Amazon). For both services, when prompted to select your charity, choose "
Kesgrave Church of England Charity
" to support our youth work, or
"Kesgrave Parish Church Trust
" to support our general work. Please sign up for both services if you are able. With thanks in anticipation!
GIVE AS YOU LIVE FOR FREE! For
anyone that performs web-searchers or shops online from Amazon, eBay, John Lewis, Tesco, Sainsbury’s and many
other subscribing retailers, there’s a new way you can give more to All Saints Church without it costing you a penny! Simply register with http://www.giveasyoulive.com/howitworks and perform your web searches or shop
via their page.
1%-1.5% of the value of purchases
then come to All Saints, and every few web searches raise 1p (it soon adds up!). This works on
computers or smart-phones.
When choosing your Charity, we suggest you choose our “Kesgrave Church of England
Charity”, which means that funds
can be used for regular costs such as youth worker and parish administrator. If you choose instead the “Parish Trust” the money instead goes into a permanent endowment where only the interest can be used by All Saints.
If you use the web please give this a try- it’s so easy and every little makes a difference! Many thanks for
your
help.
For any enquiries about Give As You Live please contact John Wittgreffe
SUPPORTING THE FIND FOODBANK Food
donations for FIND can be made at participating East of England Co-ops, the large Waitrose branch at Futura Park, Crane Boulevard and at Sainsbury's Warren
Heath. Financial donations can be made via cheque: Please make cheques payable to FOOD BANK (FIND)
and post to FIND (Families in Need), P.O. Box 1029, Ipswich IP1 9XJ or by BACS to: Payee name: FOOD BANK FIND Sort code: 30-94-55 Account number: 54354468
Reference: please put either your name or All Saints
Kesgrave as they like to know
