100+ Club

​The parish has a large overdraft and can afford nothing other than essential expenditure. At the same time, our lovely building is getting older - it is over 15 years since the rebuilding took place - and maintenance pressures are increasing. It is against this background that the 100+ Club was formed in the middle of 2010. It now has comfortably over 100 subscriptions from about 80 members of the parish.

For £5 a month, a subscription buys one chance of a prize in a monthly draw. There are 5 prizes each month and a member can have up to 5 subscriptions. Approximately 50% of the money received is returned in prizes and the remainder is ring fenced for maintenance. Current prizes are one monthly prize of £90, 2 of £45, and 2 of £22.50, with the rest going to maintenance.

The Club is allowing maintenance to begin again after a lapse of several years. The current organiser is Sundrella Kirby - please contact her at sundrellakirby@gmail.com. The current application form is linked here.
 

Gift Aid

Gift aid operates in this Parish. The greater part of the Parish's regular giving comes within its embrace. The purpose of the gift aid scheme is two-fold. Firstly it provides a channel through which regular giving is encouraged and formalised. This is primarily via monthly standing order and is achieved by filling in a simple form.

The secondary purpose of the scheme is tax relief. If one of the methods mentioned above is used, this can be processed by the Parish in such a way that it provides an audit trail that satisfies the requirements of the Taxation Authorities. Provided the donor is a taxpayer, the Government will increase the giving by 25% at today's rates of tax. In excess of £10,000 a year is received in this way and the parish would be impoverished without it.

The Parish would like to encourage as many of its parishioners as possible to join the gift aid scheme. Contact the organisers via the Parish Office on 01684 574 250 or stjoseph.malvern@rcaob.org.uk. if you would like more information.