Nov

Consultation on Parish Giving Scheme for Parish Treasurers and Clergy

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Event description

An opportunity to learn about the Parish Giving Scheme and provide feedback before a decision is taken about its adoption in our diocese.

About this Event

The Parish Giving Scheme (PGS) is a modern, tax efficient way of managing giving to your church, in operation in 30 dioceses across the UK with the aims of:

Reducing the administrative burden for treasurers as all the planned giving under PGS is received as one amount rather than many bank statement lines each month.
Reducing the administrative burden for Gift Aid Secretaries as PGS reclaim the gift on donations made through this mechanism.
Increasing cash flow as parishes receive gift aid refunds monthly on donations made using the scheme.
Tackling static giving by providing an option to inflation-proofing regular giving by linking it to the rate of inflation.

No decision has yet been taken about whether to adopt PGS in our diocese, so this consultation is your opportunity to consider the advantages and disadvantages and provide valuable feedback. We will be joined by David Barlow, Director of the Diocesan Board of Finance and Nick Aves, Chair of the Diocesan Finance Committee. Both are also PCC treasurers and are keen to hear your views as part of the work being done before a decision is made in early 2021

The first set of consultation meetings involved 134 people from 106 churches, but we would like to extend this consultation to include other churches including yours.

There are 5 opportunities to share in this consultation with each one kept small to enable those attending to participate. These are morning, and evening sessions including a Saturday to enable those who are working to attend. The meetings will last between 1hr and 1 hour 15 minutes depending how many questions there are in the session and proved beneficial to those who attended the first set of meetings.