Parish of the
Good Shepherd, Woodthorpe
with
St Anthony's of Calverton
Second Collections
The parish holds a number of second collections each year, during or after Mass, for specific purposes to support the
Church's missionary and other work locally, nationally and world-wide as required by our Bishop and other church bodies. On top of this, the
parish holds monthly collections for our building fund and parish debt (see below).
Building fund/parish debt
Our church is a listed building. As such it requires regular repair and maintenance. We also currently have a significant
issue regarding the deteriorating condition of the concrete affecting the mullions and other areas of the church building. This will be very
expensive to address. We have established a building fund to help us to cover these costs and also to help service our parish debt if we have
to borrow money to meet any particularly large costs. Once a month there is a second collection for the building fund/parish debt held at each
week-end Mass.
Regular donations
The weekly offertory envelopes used by many of our parishioners include envelopes for the parish debt and the other second
collections we are required to hold. The building fund is also supported by fundraising activities organised from time to time by parishioners,
as well as one-off donations.
Parishioners who make their normal offerings by bank standing order, and whose offerings are covered by a Gift Aid declaration, can use a special
donations Gift Aid envelope for second collections, marking the envelope "Standing Order". These envelopes are available in the church narthex.
Better still, parishioners could make their monthly parish debt offerings by completing a separate
bank standing order.
One-off donations
There is a donate portal on the front page of the parish website for one-off donations to the parish. It is also possible
to make donations by smartphone technology. The code to scan is shown below. By scanning this code the smartphone will open the parish's dedicated
on-line donations page. To scan the code you will need to have installed a reputable QR and Barcode scanner app on your smartphone.
Contactless donations
Donations for second collections can also be made through the digital collection plate, contactless terminal in the church narthex.
The terminal accepts donations made through debit or credit cards as well as smart phones.
Scheduled second collections
The dates of the second collections currently scheduled for the 2024/25 financial year are as follows:
7 April 2024 (Parish Debt)
21 April 2024 (Clergy Formation)
12 May 2024 (Catholic Communications)
26 May 2024 (Parish Debt)
16 June 2024 (Day for Life)
23 June 2024 (Parish Debt)
30 June 2024 (Peter's Pence)
14 July 2024 (Stella Maris) (Sea Sunday)
28 July 2024 (Parish Debt)
25 August 2024 (Parish Debt)
15 September 2024 (Evangelii Gaudium) (Home Mission Sunday)
29 September 2024 (Parish Debt)
20 October 2024 (World Mission Sunday)
27 October 2024 (Parish Debt)
24 November 2024 (Parish Debt)
8 December 2024 (Poor and Needy Parishes)
15 December 2024 (Parish Debt)
12 January 2025 (Sick and Retired Priests)
26 January 2025 (Parish Debt)
23 February 2025 (Parish Debt)
23 March 2025 (Parish Debt))
3 Thackeray's Lane, Woodthorpe, Nottingham, NG5 4HT. Tel: (0115) 926 8288