Gift Aid
Gift Aid
As you appreciate, we are enduring a tough time as the cost of living is increasing. Many are struggling to put food on the tables and are resorting to Foodbanks on a regular basis. If you are a taxpayer the Gift Aid Scheme enable charities such as ours to claim the tax on the contributions you make to the parish, small or large. It costs you nothing but is a lifeline for us. Thankfully quite a number of parishioners are signed up but it is important that where possible we try to take full advantage of this scheme to benefit our parish’s needs. And thanks go to all those in the Blessed Sacrament parish and St Bride’s parish who currently gift aid and on last years contributions we reclaimed nearly £3000 and £180 respectively from the Inland Revenue. If you are a taxpayer and willing for the parish to claim the tax you have already paid on your parish contribution, then please complete a Gift Aid Form at the back of the church and return it to Fr John Patrick.
Standing Orders
We abolished the use of weekly collection envelopes in the wake of the COVID Pandemic simply because the cost of the envelopes with diminishing users was becoming unviable. At the time I asked if parishioners would be so kind and set up a Standing Order with their bank to assure a regular income and also to cut down on administration of the Gift Aid scheme. This has proven to be very helpful. Therefore, I invite you (if you haven’t already set up a Standing Order) to consider doing so. This would be of great help to the parish.
