Ways to keep in touch and support Unlock's work

Unlock’s work is about Christian Mission, urgently focussed on bringing the God’s Good News to those who have often been ignored as unimportant, here, on our own doorsteps, in our own UK cities. Traditional urban communities are one of the few places remaining in British culture where there is still a degree of respect for the Christian Faith, but those very communities have not had opportunities to explore that faith for themselves, because church style and language are inappropriate for their culture and just put people off. Unlock works to plug this gap, by providing urban communities with ways of exploring faith that are designed specifically for them, and meet their particular needs. With 30 years of experience and expertise, we train, pay, and resource workers in city locations, we offer our insights and experience to others working in urban mission, we make resources available, free of charge, to anyone who wants to use them in their work of developing discipleship.

Unlock is a small organisation, every minute we spend searching for funding is time taken away from resourcing our frontline work with urban churches. We need financial support of all kinds to keep us working effectively.

Urgent!

Unlock some money –

will you donate to secure the future of Unlock’s work?

We have a serious deficit in 2009 that means we can't continue in 2010 without some major cuts. The reality is that we are already such a tiny outfit that there is really nothing we can cut without it having a serious impact on our frontline work, which is at such an exciting stage, as you can see from the stories of Unlock work scattered throughout this website. 2009 walk sponsorship and donations have only reached £22,000. It was a great walk and there were plenty of people on it, but income is down £3,500 on 2008 and over £6,000 on 2007. Unlock relies heavily on income from the Unlock London walk to fund our work. We've been trying hard but it is very difficult to secure other types of funding, because we are directly engaged in Christian Mission. If you are a supporter who could help us financially, or if you are a walker who has not yet sent in your sponsor money, or are able to give a little bit more to support Unlock’s work, please do so. Unlock local projects are achieving great things, bringing the gospel to people that the churches haven’t been able to reach; and we have more on the way! But we do urgently need your financial support in order to go on doing that. If you are able to do that regularly by standing order, and gift aid it, that's great, but we are a widow's might type of organisation and every little helps.  And pray anyway; we need some financial unlocking.  Thank you.

Please choose an area of support you are interested in...

Partnership

Churches

Friendship

Money!

Gift Aid

Prayer

Sponsored Walk

A brief history of the walk

Current (2010) walk details

Partnership

Do you belong to an organisation with similar areas of concern to Unlock?

Unlock are happy to identify, and work with, other groups concerned with encouraging urban discipleship in the UK.

We want to: -

Contact Unlock to register as a 'Partner Organisation'. You will receive our annual newsletter and we may approach you from time to time about specific pieces of work, or you may approach us!

Churches


Would your church consider pledging to give a percentage of it's giving income to Unlock annally for several years, or even for just one year? Regular, pledged giving, from churches, gives us relaiable income which allows us to plan our work for the months and years ahead.  Contact the National Office if you think this might be a possibility. We can send you further information about Unlock's work, or possibly arrange to come and do a presentation for your church.

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Friendship

Do you identify with Unlock's aims and want to support our work?

If you register as a Friend you will receive our annual news letter and information about the Sponsored walk. You can then support Unlock in a number of ways.

You may want to support Unlock's work by: -

Money!

Unlock's work is funded entirely by voluntary donations and our annual sponsored walk in London.

Where the money comes from and where it goes to

For the range of work carried out we work on a very limited budget. This is possible because we employ few staff (all of whom are part-time), and rely on trained and supported volunteers to carry out much of the work.

At the present time it costs about £50,000 a year to run Unlock. This includes staff salaries, travel, rent, office expenses, and all the extra bits and pieces that seem to mount up. As a national organisation producing materials for the church to use and as a hub for a network of local people our office is a key part of the work being done. Although we have local people working in different cities the support of them involves our Executive Officer in a lot of travel.

The money to fund this comes from donations and gifts (about a quarter), fund raising, especially the London Walk (a bit less than a half), and from investment income and various other pieces of income. In April 2000 a change was made to the law concerning giving money to charity. As a result if you pay income tax or capital gains tax you can ask to have the money that you give to charity classed as GIFT AID.

If you do this any charity that you give to will be able to claim an extra 28 pence donation from the government for every one pound that you give! If you give a £10 GIFT AID donation to Unlock it will actually be worth £12.80- to us!

All that you must make sure is that you actually pay enough tax each year to cover the amount that all charities you give to in this way will claim back in that same financial year. For example if you give £100 to Unlock each year as a gift aid donation then you will need to pay no less that £28 tax in that same financial year - because that is exactly how much Unlock would be able to claim back on your behalf.

If you would like to support the work of Unlock, either with an occasional gift or a regular one, please contact the National Office on 0114 276 2035 or alternatively at Unlock, 336A City Road, Sheffield, S2 1GA. or through email
office@unlock-urban.org.uk

New ways to give

About Everyclick                     www.everyclick.com
Everyclick is a search engine with a difference. It works just like any other major search engine but the difference is that, once you have registered your wish to support Unlock through Everyclick, a small donation is made to Unlock for every search you make using Everyclick. 

Giving via Everyclick
Search for Unlock on the Everyclick webpage and follow the simple process to make an online donation using a credit or debit card via their secure server.
Your donation will be collected and distributed to Unlock by Charities Trust, including a 28% Gift Aid on qualifying donations.  100% of your donation through Everyclick will go to Unlock.  Donations made through Everyclick are processed in real time by their payment partner Charities Trust (Charity Reg No 327489).  Funds will be transferred by Charities Trust to Unlock at the end of every month. Charities Trust automatically reclaim Gift Aid on all qualifying donations made by UK taxpayers which means that an additional 28% will go to Unlock. This is a safe and convenient way for you to make donations to Unlock and it saves Unlock costly staff time processing donations and gift aid claims too! If you want to talk to someone about this contact Lois at the Unlock National office on Mondays or Tuesdays.

We welcome: -

Gift aid

But what is Gift Aid?

Simply, for those of you who have not yet heard of 'Gift Aid', it is a system that enables charities to claim an extra 28p from the Inland Revenue for every £1 donated to them by a UK taxpayer.

9 in every 10 donations received by Unlock are NOT made under Gift Aid.

If you pay tax then please consider whether you can tick the Gift Aid box on the registration form when you make your donation.

Gift Aid will not cost YOU anything!

All it means is that we can apply to the Inland Revenue for an extra 28p for every £1 that you give towards our work.

To qualify for Gift Aid, you must pay enough tax to cover the amount that will be claimed back by the charity/charities that you give to - so if you give £10 you must have paid £2.80 in tax!

Prayer

Unlock is supported by a network of Prayer Partners.

They receive a twice yearly prayer letter and pray regularly for Unlock's Council, staff, and all their work.

Register as an Unlock Prayer Partner to receive prayer letters.

See a list of current prayer needs and answered prayers on the right.

Latest Unlock Prayer Letter>>

Devised by Bishop Peter Hall, November 2008

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