STEWARDSHIP 2025
"All things come from You, and of Your own do we give You"
Our Stewardship Campaign for 2025 runs over 6 Sundays from 11 May to 15 July. For a short time in each of our regular services at the Abbey, we will be thinking about the different ways that we can respond in generosity to the incomparable generosity of God, in order to build up our ministry of Living, Loving and Serving in the community of Romsey.
The campaign will visit St Swithun's on 18th May.
The programme at the Abbey is:
11th May Parish income and expenditure
18th May (Joint service at 10am, followed by APCM) Parish Giving Scheme (PGS)
25th May "Give to Go Green" appeal to replace downlights with LEDs
1st June Gifts in Wills
8th June Supporting mission and charities
15th June Thank you!
A copy of the Stewardship Leaflet is here
A copy of the response form is here
Week 1: Parish Income and expenditure
At our services on Sunday 11 May, we launched our Stewardship Campaign 2025. We rely on the extraordinary generosity of our church members to maintain our ministry in this community.
Here is a link to the 3-minute video shown at the services at the Abbey which demonstrates the depth and breadth of our ministry and the advances we have been able to make in recent years, thanks to that generosity.
At the 9.30 service at the Abbey, the Revd Georgi Thompson-Leask, Winchester Diocese's Stewardship adviser, answered questions on the Common Mission Fund.
Q: Romsey contributed £157,000 to the Common Mission Fund in 2024. Where does this money go?
A: 100% of CMF payments from parishes supports current ministry in our parishes.
The total income of 236 parishes in the Winchester Diocese in 2024 was £27m. Of that, 30% was paid to the Diocesan Common Mission Fund (CMF). The Diocese also has income from service fees, investments and grants.
The Diocese expenditure on current clergy costs and support for ministry in schools came to £9.4m, of which £8.6m came from parishes (CMF).
The slldes here show more detail.
Q: Many regular givers use the Parish Giving Scheme (PGS) to make monthly or other donations to the parish. How does Romsey parish compare to other parishes in the Diocese using the scheme?
A: Across the 217 parishes in the Winchester Diocese using the PGS scheme, average weekly giving from donors is £17.72. Romsey ranks 98th, with average regular giving of £16.38 per week.
If you have any questions about income and expenditure in the parish, please send to our Chair of the Finance and Resources Committee, liz.wagner@romseyabbey.org.uk.
