Finances at St. Luke's - Start of 2020

What are the challenges for our 2021 finances?
As for many people and organisations, 2020 was a challenging year financially speaking. As a result St. Luke's ended the year owing the Diocese £10,000. 2021 will also be a challenging year. At present we reckon we need an additional £20,000 to £25,000 of one off giving on top of the money people already plan to give and contributions we expect to receive from services to be able to meet our £80,000 budget in full.

You may ask what the £80,000 pays for. £20,000 goes to the running costs of the church, paying for an administrator for 8 hours a week, the heating, lighting, maintenance and insurance of the church building and various other expenses and running costs.

The rest of our budget goes to the Parish Share - about £60,000, which we pay to the Diocese. So what does the Parish Share pay for?
About £50,000 goes towards the cost of employing the vicar. This is broken down into three parts:

• £27,000 for the Stipend (the money the vicar receives to live on)
• £12,300 for National Insurance and pension contributions
• £10,700 for housing costs associated with the vicarage.

The other £10,000 we pay towards Parish Share is for the Diocesan 'Shared Costs'. We pay less than most for this (the average across the Diocese for a benefice - the set of churches run by one vicar- is £33,500). We pay less partly because we have less adult members than the average benefice and partly because Ramsgate is a more deprived area. Over half of these shared costs goes towards the costs of training new vicars (including the costs of curates like Claire who is joining us in July). The rest goes to support various Diocesan ministries and mission and the necessary administration.
To read about all this in more detail check out this recent explanation from the Diocese: Demystifying Parish Share.

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Bank Name: CAF Bank Ltd.

Sort Code: 40-52-40

Account Name: PCC of St. Luke's Parish Ramsgate

Account Number: 00015701

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