Finance

Giving

 

Your generosity enables us to fulfil our mission to bring the Presence of Jesus to the people of our area. For more on how your donations will be put to use, please see below.

 

STANDING ORDERS

The very best way for parishioners to help us is to set up a standing order, as it provide a regular and largely predictable income, with minimal processing costs. For help in setting one up, please contact the office on 01722 562703, or [email protected]. If you are a UK taxpayer, please GiftAid your donation, which increases the value of your gift by 25% at no extra cost to you.   

 

ONLINE DONATION

Our Dona system makes online donations quick and convenient. If you donate in this way and are a UK taxpayer, please register as a Gift Aid donor as part of the process of your first donation (this increases your gift by 25% at no extra cost to you).  When you return to make another donation using this system, providing you use the same payment card, your details for the purposes of Gift Aid will not need to be entered again.  This is also the case if you make donations via the contactless Dona payment machines in the church porch or via the QR codes printed on the Sunday service sheets.

CLICK HERE TO MAKE A DONATION or SCAN THIS QR CODE 

 

 

 

 

CASH/OTHER

We are most grateful to receive donations in any form, such as cash or cheques in the Offertory basket at Sunday Mass. But the above options have the advantage of saving the time and energy of our volunteers who count and process the money! If there is anything further you would like to ask, please feel free to phone our office on 01722 562703.

 

WHERE WILL YOUR MONEY GO?

When you use the ‘Dona’ machine in church, or donate online as above, you can select from several options of what you would like to support. The following is intended to give you more information about where the money goes in each case.

 

Parish Offertory

This is shared roughly equally between the parish and the Clifton Diocese. The parish costs include heating, utilities, staff salaries, liturgical materials, and everything that our priests need to fulfil their tasks. The diocesan costs include the bishop and his staff, who provide services to assist with finance, property, safeguarding, and so on, which is intended to ease the administrative burden on individual parishes.

 

Building Fund

This fund is ring-fenced for Salisbury parish (ie, not shared with the diocese), to enable us to maintain and improve our parish buildings and facilities. Of course, the Church is more than buildings—but without warm and welcoming places to meet, how can we carry out our mission? The costs are high, as you’d expect for old and listed buildings. But we believe that it is our responsibility to act now to ensure a well-maintained infrastructure for the future, rather than saddling the next generation with even worse problems, and even fewer resources to deal with them. Thank you for your generosity.

 

Youth Fund

Youth has long been a top priority for this parish, and we have seen for ourselves that good youth ministry not only enlivens our own parish, but also bears fruit in vocations for the whole Church. Donations here enable us to deliver our Youth Group, Family of Faith (for younger children and their families, which incorporates preparation for First Holy Communion), our Confirmation programme, and other occasional events like retreats, pilgrimages, and day trips. 

 

SCORE

This stands for Salisbury Catholic OutREach! We think our church should have a positive impact on the local community, and contribute towards the relief of poverty in the wider world. SCORE is our designated fund to do this, and the specific causes it supports are decided at an annual meeting. If you would like to be part of that discussion, please contact Deacon John Proctor ([email protected]), and to see who we’re supporting this year, please click here.