A Giving Programme for Rural Churches

The giving programme offered here is particularly designed for smaller, rural/village churches. Other smaller churches may also fund this useful, although unless they have a clearly defined and supportive community, they may find trying to approach the wider community for support less successful.

Programme Guide (pdf). This provides an outline of the Giving Programme, and what you will need to do. There are a number of downloadable templates and examples below to make your job easier.

DOWNLOADS for....

Preparing to run your programme

• A template for writing your case statement
• The "Footfall" tool to uncover your church's reach into your community
• Case Statements: Example 1,
• Planned Giving analysis tool (Microsoft Excel) 

Running the launch event

• A guide to organising the launch event. (pdf)
• A template letter to invite people to your event  (Word)
• A template invitation card  and response form (both in Word)

Prayer and Teaching Resources

• Prayer resources
• Link to Giving for Life reflections leaflet

The pack

• A template for your brochure (Microsoft Publisher)
• An alternative brochure template (Word)
• Examples of brochures:  A4 folded 1, A4 folded 2, A4 folded 3,  A5 booklet (all pdfs)
• A template letter to accompany the brochure for the congregation and for the wider community (Word)
• Forms for setting up Standing Order and a Gift Aid Declaration (Word)

Afterwards

• A template thank you letter (in Word)