Southwark Churches & Schools Raise Record £117K for Good Causes

5 Dec 2003

A record £117,004 was raised for the Bishop of Southwark's Lent Call 2003, mostly by churches and church schools. This compares with £114,263 in 2002. Grants have been made totaling £115,500.

The Bishop of Southwark, the Rt Rev Tom Butler presented the main grants at the November meeting of the diocesan synod. They were:

• ¬£20,000 to Aiome Anglican High School, Papua New Guinea;
• ¬£20,000 to St Michael & All Angels, Khayletisha, Cape Town - a school building project;
• ¬£15,000 to Thanarbaid Village Health project, Bangladesh;
• ¬£11,000 to Neutral Ground Child Contact Centre, Abbey Wood, SE London;
• ¬£24,000 (¬£8,000 each) to the Zimbabwean dioceses linked with Southwark's three episcopal areas - Central Zimbabwe Diocese with Croydon, Matableland Diocese with Kingston and Manicaland Diocese with Woolwich.

A further £8,000 (£2,000 each) has been credited to the four bishops' discretionary accounts for Zimbabwe-related needs. The Lent Call Trustees have assigned further grants to other projects that have been proposed for the appeal. They are:

• ¬£2,500 to The Spires Centre for homeless people, Streatham;
• ¬£2,500 to the Association for Pastoral Care in Mental Health, Croydon;
• ¬£5,000 to the Nehemiah Project's new drug and alcohol rehabilitation centre in Streatham;
• ¬£2,500 to fund an urban missioner in Tallinn, Estonia;
• ¬£5,000 to the K'halli Project, providing work training for people with mental illness in Bangalore, India.

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