The 2026 PSF materials have been sent out on the 26th June and you are requested to submit your 2026 pledge by 15 September, please.
Download the 2026 Parish Support Fund booklet
Download the 2026 Parish Support Fund PCC presentation
2026 Parish Support Fund Q&A sessions
Thank you to all our parishes for your generosity to the PSF. Celebrating 10 years of PSF the information will be in parishes around Thursday 26 June. Please ensure that discussion of your 2026 pledge is on your July or September PCC agenda. Pledges are due by 15 September, please. In the meantime, the Archdeacons would be delighted if you – or any members of your PCC – joined them for their Q&A sessions in July – a chance to hear your questions and find out about diocesan finances. Dates are below – you are very welcome to any of the sessions, even if they’re not in your area. Please email the Giving team for more info:
- Woolwich Area: Thursday 3 July, 6pm – 8pm @ Trinity House, register your interest here
- Croydon Area: Wednesday 9 July, 7pm – 8:30pm @ Christ Church Purley, register your interest here
- Kingston Area: Wednesday 16 July, 2-3pm, sign up online here
I wish to express my appreciation to you all who enable the vital work of sharing the Good News in word and action. As we follow in the steps of our Macedonian ancestors (2 Corinthians 8:1-5), may we too seek to serve one another, resourcing our mission and ministry.
Bishop Christopher
One of the great things about the Church of England is that we work together. We have a shared mission to share the love of God in Christ Jesus with all around us. Rather than each church paying for its own vicar and all the other costs of ministry, we pool our resources with richer parishes supporting poorer ones. This means we can put clergy in the places where they are needed most. So, a more affluent parish with fewer people in it may have a half-time priest, while a less affluent inner-city parish may need a full-time priest.
Parish Support Fund 2026
Bishop Christopher writes “My fellow Bishops and I wish to thank you for your generosity. Parish ministry is made possible by your commitment to the Parish Support Fund (PSF), which is a partnership that resources mission and ministry in every parish across this beautifully diverse Diocese.”
We have sent out the 2026 Parish Support Fund materials digitally. We hope you will share the letters, stories and videos with your PCC and congregation, as well as a newly added introductory video from Bishop Christopher and colleagues, and a PowerPoint for your PCC to help explain what your pledge pays towards. Please also enjoy the videos from our parishes which celebrate the impact of your generosity and God’s blessing.
Please could I ask you to include the discussion of your 2026 pledge as an agenda item in your PCCS in the months of July, August or September and submit your pledge by 15 September. This deadline is to help us prepare the Diocesan budget to be presented and discussed by the governance committees ahead of Diocesan Synod. We will be asking you to submit your pledges online, as last year.
If you have any questions please contact Gabby Parikh, our Director of Giving, or your Archdeacon.
Thank you again for enabling us to continue to resource our Diocese’s mission and ministry through your Parish Support fund pledge donations.
What is the PSF?
Working together since 2016
The PSF was introduced in January 2016 in Southwark. Parishes have responded positively and generously to this new scheme over the past eight years – thank you. We are all God’s people, and the Diocese of Southwark is like a large family which needs to support each other. That is why the PSF is so important as it helps the parishes to work together and support one another generously.
Our PCCs right across our Diocese are responsible and accountable to each other for how much they give, and we ask each parish to aspire to being self-financing (that is, to cover their indicative costs of ministry).
Principles of the PSF
The PSF is a generosity-based pledge scheme which brings together the principles of:
- proportionality
- informed generosity
- an aspiration to, and encouragement towards becoming self-financing.
These three principles are underpinned by a commitment to transparency and mutual accountability.
Watch good news stories funded by the PSF
This year we visited six parishes across our Diocese to celebrate their inspiring Christ Centred, Outward Focused approach to mission and ministry. You can read about each of these parish stories in this year's PSF Booklet, and watch the films which follow more closely the impact these churches are having in their local areas.
