The Parish Giving Scheme is the best, most efficient and effective way to give to our local church and to help us grow and mature in generous giving.

Some response forms will request information. Responding well is more than a simple transaction. Like a garden in spring, we need to be organised for growing generosity, for new life

Our response forms are not a financial transaction. They are part of discipleship. We want to grow the giver, not just get the gift. We’re giving for life and responding well means being organised. It’s a personal touch and warm appreciation, underwritten by decent administration.

There’s a date to return response forms in the clergy ask letter. Once it has passed by a few days, a gentle reminder can be sent in the same spirit as the first ask letter. Encouraging folk to bring their piece of the jigsaw; is all.

As response forms are returned the first task is to write a letter of thanks, witing a week. We are saying thank you for the gift. We are saying thank you for the giver.

A small planning group is vital in creating the case statement, planning and delivering a programme and as champions and advocates of bible based stewardship ministry.

Response forms are a simple but effective way to help us add our piece of the giving jigsaw. They help translate our intention into action and we can request additional information, where appropriate.

The Code of Fundraising Practice keeps our givers, and our churches safe from failures in conduct and practice. Read how it applies here

Our preaching speaks of what God has done in Jesus and invites a discipleship response. Our letters make a personal ask for a prayerful and careful review of giving and a personal response appropriate to circumstances.

The brochure is a multipurpose tool, the Swiss army knife of your programme literature. A single unifying document carrying several messages.

Surely if people see the need or the opportunity the money will there? Sadly, not so much. Stewardship means asking.

Stewardship means asking - and thanking. We think we thank enough. Not so much. Our appreciation matters more than we think.

Preaching is the keystone of a stewardship programme, of all stewardship ministry. It creates a culture in which all other stewardship tasks can flourish.

Planned giving is more than how we give our gift. It is the heart’s intention to make giving a priority. Planned giving helps unlock committed giving and releases us into the joy of generous giving.

Generous giving is more than the transactional business paying our bills and balancing our budget. It goes beyond sustaining our churches and resourcing our ministry. Generous giving is transformational as we are caught up in God’s grace and reflect in generous discipleship the character of our generous God.

The leadership consultation reviews and signs off the planning group case statement. The goal is a shared leadership vision and personal leader advocacy to underpin the stewardship programme. The PCC minutes the decision to run the Giving in Grace programme.

Take time to reflect on the stewardship practice and culture of the church, good and bad in a ‘holy conversation’ that helps shape a new stewardship story in the church.

Our financial history paints a picture of our financial health in broad brush strokes, background to the detail in our simple budget.

As we review the financial information in the Knowing our Numbers report we have to ‘mind the gap’ between our present reality and our vision for a new future.

Creating an anonymous planned giving profile lifts the bonnet on church giving to give new insights into our congregational giving.