Giving to good causes
As a church we believe giving to good causes is an important part of our ministry. In recent years we have supported the following organisations:
- USPG
- Church Army
- The Children’s Society
- Christian Aid
- Practical Action
- Water Aid
- Kingston Matabeleland Project
- Rethink
- Amnesty International
- Kingston and District Welcare Association
- Kingston Churches Action on Homelessness
- Oxygen Project
- Church Urban Fund
- Street Pastors
- Macmillan Cancer Support
- British Legion
- The Shooting Star Children’s Hospice
- Samaritans
- St Christopher’s Fellowship (a children’s charity)
- Kids Company
We raised this money through a variety of events, regular monthly coffee mornings, our May Day Mission event and November Bazaar, and a contribution from the Church.
We also sell paperback books throughout the year, and share the proceeds between Missions and the Church Appeal fund.
In addition to the monthly mission coffee mornings many people have held Saturday Coffee mornings for specific Charities.
The knitting circle also contribute to our mission work, providing blankets where they are needed.
2020 and onwards: We carefully considered all suggestions we received for supporting good causes in 2020. It was felt important that we continue to support:
- Kingston Welcare
- Momentum
- Kingston Branch of the Samaritans
- Kingston Churches Action on Homelessness
- Medicines sans Frontièrs
- Refugee Action Kingston
In addition to those above which we continue to support we have added the two below:
- Sightsavers (replacing World Vision)
- The David Nott Foundation (replacing the RNLI)
And it was felt important to add this last organisation:
We hope that now we are more active in the church we are able to hold events to enable us to continue raising money for these worthwhile charities. If anyone would like to make suggestions on how we could do this do please get in contact by emailing Jenny, Operations Manager: info@allsaintskingston.co.uk