Financial update: Can you help us meet our shortfall? 

Thank you for your support through the year. With your help we’ve been able to provide events and services for Falconwood. We’ve also been able to support local, national and international charities.   
Below are some extracts from the provisional financial statements for 2023:
 

We forecast an increase in expenditure of 2% for 2024. Although some items will reduce, others will rise and this means expenditure is expected to exceed income by around £11,000 this year. 

We do have some reserves, which we have been using to make up our shortfall in last financial year, but we cannot continue to draw from them at this rate. We need to make progress in closing the gap by increasing income. Can you help? We would ask that you consider prayerfully how you may help us close this gap.

Bishop Ridley Church provides various services for Falconwood from Babes and Toddler to lunch club for those alone in the area. We support local uniform groups, the foodbank and events like Spark in the Park. You can see below our charitable donations for 2023:

We are only able to make these donations and meet the needs of the community in Falconwood with your help. 

If you can donate to Bishop Ridley Church on a one – off or regular basis it would be gratefully appreciated. You can give in a variety ways: 

Online
You can give securely to us through Give a little.

Standing Orders or Direct Transfer
You can make one-off or regular payments direct to our account.  Please ask for further details.

Give a little terminal
You can use your card or mobile phone to donate via the Give a little terminal in the church. 

Cash 
Please use the collection bags passed round during the service to make cash donations, or place donations on the plate in the Narthex. We can provide envelopes for weekly giving, Please ask for further details.
  
Cheques
Please use the collection bags passed round during the service to give cheque donations, or place cheques on the plate in the Narthex. 

Gift Aid
Please do consider Gift Aiding if you are able as this will increase the value of your donation by a quarter at no extra cost to you. If you have not already done so, please complete the Gift Aid form and return it to info@brchurch.org.uk. 
If you donate online or via the Give a Little terminal, you can complete the electronic Gift Aid Declaration - this is linked to the card you used to donate and will be remembered for future donations.
We need to maintain an audit trail of donations for Gift Aid – so if you donate by cash, this means that donations need to be placed in an envelope with your name on it, or via one of the numbered envelopes we can provide.

Gift Aid Small Donations Scheme
If you are unable to Gift Aid, then, for donations up to £30 made by cash or via the Give a Little terminal, we are able to claim back the tax where the donations have not been Gift Aided, on up to £8,000 donations per tax year.

For more information please email info@brchurch.org.uk.