Charities & Fundraising
Charities Allocation Team
So as to coordinate efforts and to do some things well rather than covering many causes poorly the parish Justice & Peace Group have been charged with the coordination of all parish fund raising ventures. The group will ensure that retiring collections are not held too frequently, that urgent needs are prioritised and that parish giving is fairly spread so that individual causes are supported but only for an agreed length of time.
In future all requests for parish funds will be submitted to the J&P group who will assess and recommend to the Parish Finance Committee an annual plan for parish giving.
The parish is committed to provide support to those in need in accordance with the imperatives of the Gospel. To this end the parish will raise funds in four categories:
1. Designated Diocesan Collections
These are mandated by the diocese. On average the parish must take retiring collections on 20 Sundays of the year. These include:
Christmas Crib Collection - Cabrini Children's Society
Catholic Education Service
Catholic Children Society
CAFOD Fast Day Lent
Holy Places (Good Friday)
Lenten Alms
Educ Future Priests
Catholic Communications
Diocesan Missions
Peter's Pence (personal gift to the pope)
Day for Life
Apostleship of Sea
Racial Justice
Home Missions
CAFOD Fast Day Harvest
Retired Priests
APF
Arundel Cathedral
Seminary Fund
Overseas Missions
2. The Annual Appeal for Religious Orders
Each year the Bishops of England & Wales approve a designated appeal to be made in support of a Religious Order. In C&B this is usually made on the last weekend of September.
3. Parish Giving Policy
The parish collects money and organises events in support of a number of specific causes and projects. These are reviewed periodically and include:
- Connect2Ethiopia - a Parish project led by the parish J&P/CAFOD Group
- World Youth Day - the parish is raising funds to help seven young people to go to Madrid in 2011
- Living Water Community - supporting a mission in Trinidad, West Indies
- Christmas Tree appeal - for the homeless
- Lourdes Appeal - Catenian appeal in support of enabling children to go on the diocesan Pilgrimage to Lourdes (held in November)
- SVP - in support of the furniture fund
- Christmas and Easter Flower collections
- St Tarcisius after Sunday Mass Coffee Collection - for various charities
- Other various causes
4. Emergency Appeals.
These appeals cover disasters and urgent appeals that occur from time to time. During 2007 the parish generously supported CAFOD's Haiti appeal.
MISSIO (ASSOCIATION FOR THE PROPAGATION OF THE FAITH)
Missio assists each and every one of the Catholic Church's 1,062 mission dioceses and territories to provide pastoral care and preach the Gospel effectively. Missio works in England and Wales with the Mill Hill Missionary Society, the only major missionary society to have been formed in England. Mill Hill was one of the first societies to introduce lay missionaries, and its priests, lay brothers and associates work in 27 countries and every continent.
In England and Wales funds for the Missions are collected through the famous Red collection boxes. These can be found in 200,000 homes and they have helped raise millions of pounds for the missions. Missio publishes a magazine: Mission Today.
Missio enables its supporters to live out their own missionary vocation and to take an active part in the universal mission of the Church.The parish strongly supports Missio in its work and mission and regularly sends funds.
Website: http://www.missio.org.uk/apf/index.php
LIVING WATER COMMUNITY
Living Water Community is a Catholic Lay Ecclesial Community which began in Port of Spain, Trinidad in 1975. It was founded by Rhonda Maingot and Rose Jackman when they responded to a call from God to "light a fire of love" in the hearts of God's people.
Over the years, many have joined them. At the core of the Community are those who have chosen a consecrated life of simple poverty, loving celibacy and obedience to the Church. Priests and lay men and women share these 'households' and are committed to a life of holiness.
Our Community has a vibrant ministry to the poor in Trinidad - the physically poor and the spiritually poor. In a world where the illiterate, hungry, homeless and destitute spill on to our streets every day, we see the need for basic care, nourishment and self-development programmes managed in an efficient, cost-effective manner. All of this is made possible through the generosity of those who support the charity by Deeds of Covenant, Donations, Charitable Foundations, Legacies, Fundraising and, of course, the many satisfied customers who visit the Bookstore and Coffee Shop.
If you would like to help with ministry to the poor in Trinidad & Tobago, your donation may be sent to the Living Water Community Centre at 109 Frederick Street, Port of Spain, Trinidad, WI or you can give a donation online at the living water website.
In the Parish the community at St Tarcisius has supported this project for many years.
For further information contact: Brian and Judy Potter – Telephone 01276 506029
For further information, please contact us at:
Tel: (868) 623-4677 or 868) 625-6730
Fax: (868) 623-5348
E-mail: lwc@wow.net
Website: http://livingwatercommunity.com/about_lwc/about%20LWC.htm