Our approach to giving has always been to trust the Lord to provide for our needs from within the church family rather than ask the community to give through raffles, fetes etc. (although we have in the past had a fun day for the local community where everything was free!!) We had a Parish Share of £34,000 last year, which was successfully paid in full. Our annual giving and spending are roughly matched each year through carefully managing expenses. In September 2000 we had our most recent stewardship presentation to the congregation. 

 We encourage our members to tithe and the PCC determines its missionary giving each year by tithing the previous years income. The allocation is divided into a number of units, giving to Church Pastoral Aid Society, Scripture Union, Indian Evangelical Mission, Crosslinks, TEAR Fund, Falconer Home, a student in Kenya, a student in Thailand, an Asian worker in Old Trafford and a spare amount for other appeals.

Rector’s Expenses are paid in line with diocesan guidelines. In 2001 this amounted to £149 travel, £388 telephone & office and £25 other expenses.

In 1998 we re-ordered the interior of the church building at a cost of £200,000. This was funded out of the sacrificial giving of the congregation over a 5-year period. We are currently planning for the replacement of our hall building to allow us to serve the community better. The cost of this project will be somewhere in the region of £300,000 or above and we have so far received a Church Urban Fund Grant of £25,000 and will have received £175,000 by the end of 2003 through giving by the congregation over a further 3-year period.