Support and Advice:
Promoting Christian Giving
The Diocesan Christian Giving Missioner can advise and assist parishes as they seek to encourage giving to the Church.
Gift Aid
Gift Aid is a scheme enabling churches and charities to reclaim tax paid by a donor on eligible donations. Those who give by Gift Aid increase the value of the Gift to the Church. Further information about Gift Aid and resources to help you run an effective Gift Aid programme in your parish can be found on the The Church of England's website. Detailed guidance about Gift Aid can be found on the HM Revenue & Customs.
Legacy Giving 
Leaving a Gift in your will to the Church is a practical way of saying "Thank you" to God for all the blessings we have enjoyed during our lives. For information about legacy giving, how parishes can encourage legacy gifts to the Church and resources and ideas to help parishes encourage legacy giving visit the Legacy page.
Online, QR code and Contactless Donations
Although regular giving is the bedrock of support for most churches, one-off donations are a very useful additional supplement to this.
Enabling people to donate online can really increase the amount your church can raise for specific appeals and one off events. Online giving and mobile phone giving are generally additional ways to give, not substitutes for regular giving to your church. Your regular givers should continue to give regularly in their usual way, whether that is by envelope or standing order.
Donors may wish to give online over and above their regular giving however; for example, to specific appeals or to mark special occasions. Online giving can also help attract donations from people who do not normally give; for example, people who do not usually attend church services, people who are attending a wedding or concert or other one-off event, tourists, people moved by a special appeal etc.
A useful summary of the main forms of the ways that donors can give by digital technology can be found on the Parish Buying - Contactless Solutions page.
There is also a more detailed guide to QR code Giving entitled Parish Buying - QR code Giving
Also on the Parish Resources website is A Guide to Fundraising and Social Media. This guide contains useful information about using new technologies such as Facebook or Twitter to spread the word about your appeals, events and other good stories.
Resources:
Suggestions of helpful books, leaflets and websites. Click here.