St Wilfrid Harrogate raises money throughout the year for a range of charities.

Charitable Giving at St Wilfrid’s in 2018

JANUARY – £100 donation for the Harrogate Homeless Project from a friend of one of the congregation
£250 in donations for persecuted Christians in Bangladesh

FEBRUARY – £67 in donations for the Harrogate Homeless Project for Churches Against Poverty Sunday (plus larger than usual donations of food and toiletries)

MARCH – £170 (plus GiftAid) from Andersons Solicitors for Water Aid
£1,513.88 – total donations for Water Aid from the congregation (large proportion was Gift Aided)

MAY – £1,549.07 total donations for Christian Aid (large proportion was GiftAided)
£693.41 Children’s Society Boxes

SEPTEMBER – £25 donation for the Harrogate Homeless Project

OCTOBER – £670 total donations for the Christian Blind Mission (large proportion was GiftAided)

DECEMBER – £200 donations for the Homeless and the Food Bank along with a donation of over £562.50 for the Children’s Society from the Christingle service.

A total of £5,800.86.

In addition there is a weekly collection of groceries  for the Homeless Project, and it is a rare week when we are not also given at least £10 in cash donations.  We estimate that these donations in cash and in kind were worth in the region of £1,000 in 2018.

In July and December we had a collection of confectionery items for the Harrogate Food Bank, estimated to be in the region of £400 in total. In September there was a larger than usual collection of items for the Homeless Project for Harvest, estimated to be in the region of £200. In December we had a collection of Christmas items for the Homeless Project, estimated to be in the region of £300. At a conservative estimate therefore, the value of the giving in kind was in total approaching £2,000.

If you would like to donate non-perishable food items or toiletries to the Harrogate Homeless Project you can leave them in the church. There is a large box usually kept by the main doors for this purpose.