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Partnership

Churches

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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.

Missionary Giving Flyer>>

A brief document about Unlock's work designed to encourage missionary giving from churches.

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Friendship

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

By sending us your contact details with permission to add them to our database you become a Friend of Unlock. Friends 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

Unlock delivers a range of work on a very limited budget. This is only possible because we employ few staff (all of whom are part-time).

At the present time it costs about £60,000 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. Because we have local people working in different cities supporting them involves our Executive Officer in a lot of travel.

The money to fund this comes from donations and gifts (about half), grants from Charitable trusts, and fund raising, especially the London Walk (a bit less than a half). 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 25 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 £12.50- 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 £25 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 2939060 or alternatively at Unlock, Handsworth Parish Centre, Handsworth Road, Sheffield, S13 9BZ. 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 25% 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 all financial donations, larger or small, regualr or one off.

Gift aid

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.

Many of the donations received by Unlock are NOT made under Gift Aid but could be.

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 25p 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 £2.50 in tax!