Parish Finances 

Ongoing Offertory - Thank you for your generosity.   

Anyone wishing to set up a new Standing Order Mandate or Gift-Aid Declaration, should contact the parish office.

These are challenging times, financially, and in many other ways.   However if it is appropriate for you, please consider making your regular Offertory gift by STANDING ORDER.   If you need to reduce your Standing Order, please do so.  Either way, a reliable income from your Offertory, however small, will give the Church the confidence to plan for mission during the pandemic and afterwards.  If you are a UK taxpayer, you have the option of adding Gift-Aid, whereby the UK Government adds a further 25% to your donation.  If you are used to internet banking, set up a Standing Order via your own bank's website.  You can make a DONATION any time  you like.   

Account Name: Our Lady of Lincoln RC Parish 

Sort Code: 30-95-05 

Account Number: 01917420  

A monetary gift, is a service of love, not a contribution.  Love should be our motive, and a dependence on Divine Providence, part of our gift.  This dispels arrogance on the part of those who can give, or resentment on the part of those who must receive. Both are where they are to glorify God -- one by giving, another by receiving.  Mother Angelica - from Prayer and Living for the Kingdom

Diocese of Nottingham : Second Collections 2023 

Sunday 8th October - CAFOD (Harvest Fast Day) - National Optional 

Sunday 22nd October - Missio (World Mission Sunday) - Worldwide Mandatory 

Sunday 10th December - Poor and Needy Parishes - Diocesan Mandatory 

Nottingham Diocese have signed up to an online donation platform. 

This platform will enable people to make one off donations to any Parish in our Diocese,  and 4 pre-selected central funds; 

Sick and Retired Priest Fund, CV19 Recovery Fund, Enabling Mission Fund and Poor and Needy Parish Fund.  

https://www.mygivinghub.com/detailed/donate?charity_id=1086607&hidden_amount=&amount=&reference=&period=single&referrer=&dr_id=&url_id=0LK2k0y7zW 

[Instruction: Congregation for the Clergy] The Pastoral Conversion of the Parish Community (in the Service of Evangelising Mission of the Church) 

101.  The administration of goods which every Parish has to some extent is an important area of evangelisation and evangelical witness, both in the Church and in civil society, ... is necessary that [the Parish Priest] be assisted by collaborators to administer the goods of the Church above all with evangelising zeal and a missionary spirit.

102. For this reason, in every Parish a Finance Council must be constituted as a consultative body, presided over by the Parish Priest and formed of at least three other faithful ... The members of this Council, not necessarily belonging to the Parish itself, must be of proven good reputation, and expert in financial and legal questions, so as to render an effective and competent service, in such a way that the Council is not established as a mere formality.

106.  The finance Council fulfills a role of particular importance in the growth, at the level of Parish community, of a culture of co-responsibility, of administrative transparency, and of service to the needs of the Church.  in a particular way, transparency should not be understood as a mere formal presentation of statistics, but more as information that is the community's due, and an advantageous opportunity for its formative involvement .  Transparency refers to a modud agendi,  indispensable for the credibility of the Church, especially where there are significant goods to administer.

Diocese of Nottingham : Second Collections 2024 

Sunday 14th January - Sick and Retired Priests - Diocesan Mandatory 

Sunday 28th January - Racial Justice Sunday - National Optional 

Sunday 18th February - Review of Parish Finances - Diocesan

Sunday 25th February - CAFOD (Lent Fast Day) - National Optional 

Friday 29th March - Holy Places of Palestine - Worldwide Mandatory 

Sunday 21st April - Clergy Formation Fund - Diocesan Mandatory 

Sunday 12th May - Catholic Communications - Worldwide Mandatory 

Sunday 16th June - Day for Life - National Mandatory 

Sunday 30th June - Peter’s Pence - Worldwide Mandatory 

Sunday 14th July - Stella Maris (Sea Sunday) - National Mandatory 

Sunday 8th September - Catholic Education Service - National Optional 

Sunday 15th September - Evangelii Gaudium Day - National Mandatory 

Sunday 6th October - CAFOD (Harvest Fast Day) - National Optional

Sunday 20th October - Missio (World Mission Sunday) - Worldwide Mandatory 

Sunday 8th December - Poor and Needy Parishes - Diocesan Mandatory 

Diocese of Nottingham : Second Collections 2025

Sunday 12th January - Sick and Retired Priests - Diocesan Mandatory 

Sunday 16th February - Racial Justice Sunday - National Optional 

Sunday 2nd March - Review of Parish Finances - Diocesan 

Sunday 16th March - CAFOD (Lent Fast Day) - National Optional 

Friday 18th April - Holy Places of Palestine - Worldwide Mandatory