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SOUTHWARK CHURCHES & SCHOOLS RAISE RECORD £117K FOR GOOD CAUSES

Friday 5 December 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.

Ends.

For further information contact: 

Diocesan Communications Officer
Tel: 020-7939 9400
Mobile: 07831-694021
Fax: 020-7939 9468