Encouraging giving in your parish

Generosity is a spiritual gift, and our prayer is for the gift of generosity to grow in our Diocese so that, through God’s grace, we live a more generous, Christ-centred, outward-focused life, including giving financially and sharing God’s love with our neighbours.

The Giving Team is here to support you as you nurture this generous culture, helping you resource the mission and ministry of your church.  We can help you provide mechanisms for giving that suit your church’s specific values, tradition and needs.

Three opportunities to nurture generosity:

• preach generosity, embedding this theme in worship and theology
• in an increasingly cashless society, enable people to give through contactless devices or online.
• hold a Giving Programme.  Contact us for support with planning, resources, and tips.

We work to support clergy, PCCs, Treasurers, finance teams and church members to foster generosity in their communities. 

Through visits, training and newsletters, talks at PCCs, retreats or Sunday services, and working with you on resources, we are here to partner with you.

A Cheerful Hour About Giving 2024

In January 2024 we held 2 ‘Cheerful Hours about Giving’. These gave advice, tips and pointers about growing generosity in your church. If you missed it, not to worry! You can download the slides here, and do get in touch if you’d like us to talk anything through with you.

We shared a Generous Year Planner packed with links and prompts to help your church plan for a generous year.  Do download, print and scribble reminders on your own!

An Encouraging Hour About Giving 2024

In June 2024 we held our second Generosity training sessions for this year ‘Encouraging Giving ‘. This covered ways to ask, inspire and thank your congregations especially in this cost of living crisis. You can download the slides here, and do get in touch if you’d like us to talk anything through with you.

Here to help – Southwark Diocese

The Giving Team here at Southwark can support you in the following areas:

• encouraging planned giving
• the Parish Giving Scheme
• contactless giving
• online giving
• encouraging legacies
• Gift Aid
• fundraising and grants

We’re also pleased to assist and advise with Giving Programmes, and to visit your church to give talks or sermons.  If you have any giving-related query, please do get in touch and we’d be pleased to talk with you.

Here to help – webinar training from the Church of England

• Introduction to Online Giving
  Take the first steps in setting up online giving for your church, including QR codes, web campaigns, accessing reports, and gift aid data. It will be helpful for newcomers to online giving, and an opportunity for others to ask questions and think about how to optimise their online giving.
  3pm, 6th February: Join here
• Getting started with Contactless
  Discover the Contactless Devices and opportunities for your church to make the most of cashless giving. It will be helpful for newcomers to contactless giving, and an opportunity for all to ask questions.
  3pm, 25th January: Join here
  3pm, 10th April: Join here

• Understanding Connectivity
  Find out about the connectivity options available to your church – from WiFi to 4G – how to get your contactless devices connected, and what to do if you have none at all. We will be going through the connectivity options in relation to digital giving, and how it can be optimized to make it easier in your church.
  12pm, 14th March: Join here