To give to the work of Salvation Baptist Church in Poltava, please scroll to the bottom of this page.

Giving Financially

We have a generous God! Everything we have comes from Him, and we recognise that our giving is an act of worship.

We really are stewards, or caretakers, of what actually belongs to God. This includes not only all that we have and all that we will accumulate and earn in the future, but also all that we are, our very lives.

Click here for ways to give and Gift Aid information.

We have two giving accounts:

1) Our Main Account

This is our main account for the general running of the church and our contributions to work abroad.

Expenditure

You will see from the chart below that we expect to spend £1,037k during the current financial year (2025-26), the majority of which (58%) is going directly into the ministry of this church here and overseas.

The balance is to pay for the Millmead Centre and its upkeep, together with the staff who administer all that we do.

We are now including a Refurbishment and Improvement line in our budget to recognise the importance of keeping the Millmead Centre refreshed. It is like to be around £45k a year, but for the first time, we have included approximately half of this at £27k.

Income

Virtually all the income to support the work we believe God is calling us to do is derived from the generosity of His people. We do receive a relatively small amount of income (approximately 8%) from letting parts of the Millmead Centre to external groups, but it is small in comparison to income from giving.

For members of this church community and regular worshippers, we are asking you to prayerfully consider that our budget assumes that our income will be £111k higher than 2024/25.

We are close to completing our repayment on the building loan. As we look back at the £1.6m we owed in 2020, let us be thankful and let this be a spur to our faith.

Let us determine as we grow as a congregation and seek to move forward with God’s help in a new phase of our ministry, that our regular giving will support the expanding scope of the church’s mission. Let all of us who see Millmead as our spiritual home give generously and joyfully in proportion to our means. At the same time, let us ask God to increase what we have in order that we may give more.

‘Trust God from the bottom of your heart,
don’t try to figure everything out on your own…
Honour God with everything you own;
give him the first and the best.
Your barns will burst,
your wine vats will brim over.’ Proverbs 3:5-10 (The Message)

The links below explain the different methods by which you can give, along with Standing Order and Gift Aid forms. If you are able to give regularly, we would particularly encourage you to consider giving by Standing Order as this is fee-free to us and is a great help in our budgeting and forecasting.

2) Our Building Project Account

This account is a special account solely for our building project.

After some years of pre-funding each stage of the work, we decided to borrow an amount to get the building project finished rather than having it continue for further years.

We originally borrowed just under £1.5m but also had member loans to repay, and a retention on the work, so that in April 2021 we really owed almost £1.6m. The elders felt that it would be good to try and get this repaid in three years.

2021/22

We set a target of £480,000 for the first year (ending 31 March 2022), and achieved this as the following chart shows.

2022/23

We again set a target of £480,000 for the second year (ending 31 March 2023), and achieved 91.7% of our target, as the following chart shows. We thank God for His faithfulness and the generosity of His people during this difficult economic period of steeply rising energy, food and mortgage costs.

2023/24

We again set a target of £480,000 for the third year (ending 31 March 2024) as we believe it is right to continue to repay the loan as quickly as possible, particularly as doing so provides more resources for the Baptist Union to support other churches in this way. We achieved 86% of our target, as the following chart shows.

2024/25

With the loan outstanding at just £400,000, we set this as our target for this year.

This is again a big target and it will not be achieved just because we have done it before. That way leads to pride and a poor outcome. In humility, we need to look to the One who said, ‘The silver is mine and the gold is mine’ (Haggai 2:8).

We achieved 91% of our target, as the following chart shows.

2025/26

We are delighted to report that the outstanding building loan at the start of this financial year is just £34,758. No chart is needed! We look to each other and to the Lord to clear this amount as soon as possible so that we may close our Building Fund account.

Ways to Give

1)

Cash or Cheque

You can give in cash during Sunday service collections. Cheques should be made payable to Guildford Baptist Church. Please complete a Gift Aid declaration if you are able.

Bank Transfer (BACS)

2)

Main Account

Name: Guildford Baptist Church

Account Number: 01070371

Sort Code: 60-09-21

Reference: Your Name

Standing Order form (General)

Building Project Account

Name: Guildford Baptist Church Building Fund

Account Number: 74791028

Sort Code: 60-09-21

Reference: Your Name

Standing Order form (Building Fund)

3)

ChurchSuite

You can also give through ChurchSuite: https://guildfordbaptist.churchsuite.co.uk/donate.

If you wish us to benefit from the full amount of your gift, please tick the box: ‘Increase my donation to cover the transaction fee’

4)

Via your salary

Ask your employer or HR department if they are set up for payroll giving. If they are, just tell them you want to give to Guildford Baptist Church and how much you’d like to donate each month.

This is very much in accord with Paul’s encouragement, “On the first day of every week, each one of you should set aside a sum of money in keeping with your income.” 1 Corinthians 16:2.

Payroll Giving will provide you with tax relief at source so if you are a basic rate tax-payer giving £100 a month, it will only cost you £80 a month; if you are a higher rate tax-payer it will cost you £60 a month; and if you are an additional rate tax payer it will cost you £55 a month.

National Insurance contributions are still calculated on your gross income before Payroll Giving donations are deducted.

Gift Aid is not available as you will have received the tax relief. Therefore if you are a basic rate tax-payer and want to give the equivalent of £100 a month to Guildford Baptist Church together with the Gift Aid we would otherwise have recovered, please consider asking your employer to deduct £125 a month.

If you are a higher rate tax-payer and want to give the equivalent of £200 a month to Guildford Baptist Church together with the Gift Aid we would otherwise have recovered, please consider asking your employer to deduct £250 a month. In this way we would receive £250 a month after Gift Aid and you would also receive tax relief of £40 a month.

For further information

If you would like to discuss any aspect of this Giving Financially page, or a gift that you are thinking of making, please contact Arthur Childs, Finance Deacon at arthur.childs@guildfordbaptist.org, or telephone the Church Office (01483 575008) and leave a message for Arthur to return your call.

Salvation Baptist Church, Poltava

We have entered into an agreement to support Salvation Baptist Church in Poltava. Details of how to give can be found below:

Give via ChurchSuite – click here

Give via BACS:

Guildford Baptist Church
60-09-21
01070371
Reference: Poltava

Give via cash/cheque (payable to Guildford Baptist Church), marking envelope ‘Poltava’

Please Gift Aid if you can.