Giving - by our church, and to our church

Giving by our church

... to the worldwide mission of the church to nurture peace, justice and work for the integrity of creation.

Find out more about our Church's giving on our Partner Projects page

Giving to our church

Planned giving - funding the everyday costs of our Church

As Christians we are invited to give our time and money sacrificially, proportionately and cheerfully. The Bible actually suggests giving away 10% and so as a church we model this practice by giving away 10% of our income to mission and good causes. The Church of England suggests to individuals that we give 5% of our income to the church and 5% to support other charitable giving.

At Holy Trinity, our stewardship programme gives us all the opportunity to contribute in order to meet the financial needs of our church community.

Planned giving objective
Our objective is that planned giving should fund the everyday running costs of Holy Trinity.

How much to give?
The church’s guidance is 5% of disposable income, which means income after tax, NI and pension contributions. See chart below to calculate your monthly giving based on annual gross income.


Gross (pre tax) annual income	5% Monthly Donation (after tax & NI)
£10,000	£36
£15,000	£50
£20,000	£64
£30,000	£92
£40,000	£120
£50,000	£145
£60,000	£170
£80,000	£219
£100,000	£268

How to give

By Standing Order please - if possible. This allows us to plan our finances efficiently over the year and reduces the administrative work involved in processing donations for you and us. Anybody with a UK bank account can pay in this easy efficient way.

The envelope scheme is popular with many parishioners and can also be used. These are the coloured envelopes, one for each Sunday of the year. Each envelope has a number on so that your gift can be recorded against your number for Gift Aid purposes, and the Stewardship Officer and Treasurer are the only people who know how much you have put in your envelope. Please let either Liz Holder* or Nick Woods* know as soon as you can if you would like to join (or even leave) this scheme.

* Contact us via the Contacts page or by post via the Parish Office, Holy Trinity Church, 234 The Broadway, London SW19 1SB.

Give As You Earn (GAYE), a form of payroll giving where the donation is directly deducted from your monthly salary and paid directly to Holy Trinity. If you are interested in this method of giving, please indicate this on the attached form and discuss implementing this with your employer.

Occasional Gift Aid (white) envelopes are available in the pews. These are largely for occasional visitors to our church but some people who give in other ways sometimes like to add to their regular gift on a particular occasion. Feel free to use them at any time, but please remember to complete all the details required each time (and please write clearly!)

How to make your giving go further – Gift Aid it!

All UK taxpayers can complete a gift aid declaration which will allow Holy Trinity to claim back 28p for every pound donated. In addition, higher rate taxpayers can then claim back a further 23p themselves for every pound donated.

These are the key features of the UK Government’s Gift Aid scheme:

It does not cost you a penny
You are not bound to any time commitment (like the four-year period that used to apply to covenants)
You do not have to provide any tax reference information (e.g. national insurance number) only your signed declaration that you are a tax-payer
It applies to everyone regardless of the rate of income tax they pay - lower rate (currently 10%), standard rate (currently 22%) or higher rate (currently 40%)
The only criterion is that you must have paid an amount of income tax or capital gains tax in the relevant tax year equal to any tax reclaimed by the church in that period. For example, on a regular gift of £10 a week (i.e. £520 per year), if you have paid tax of at least £147 during the relevant year, we can reclaim this amount from the Inland Revenue.
If you think you pay no tax at all but you do receive interest on a bank or building society account net of tax, or income from investments or have paid capital gains tax, then you have paid tax for the purposes of the Gift Aid scheme and are entitled to use it.
If you pay no tax at all, your partner or spouse may pay your donations on your behalf and sign a Gift Aid declaration in their own name.
If you pay tax at the higher rate you can claim further tax relief in your self assessment tax return.

What to do now

Standing Order and Gift Aid forms are available from the church office (ask the Churchwardens) or direct from Liz Holder our Treasurer (Contact via Contacts page)
It helps our Treasury with budgeting if all forms can initially be returned to Liz Holder our Treasurer and she will send them on to your bank.

Liz Holder
c/o Holy Trinity Church
234 The Broadway
London
SW19 1SB

If you have any questions or suggestions do feel free to contact a member of the Treasury team at any time via our Contacts page.

The Treasury team are:

Liz Holder, Treasurer
Nick Woods, Stewardship Officer

Tel: 020 8542 1388 (Parish Office, with Voicemail)

Nick Woods, Stewardship Officer
Email me via the Contacts page