CHARITY IN FOCUS


May Update

This month will see us have a temporary break from our fund raising for the St Giles Centre refurbishment, so we are able to support the vital work of Christian Aid and our parish fete, which takes place on Saturday 14th June.


About Christian Aid

Christian Aid seek to bring help and change to many people who are living in abject poverty around the world. They do this by investing in communities, in education, in training, in infrastructure, in maternity care and protecting human rights.

Many of the people they work with live very hard lives, lives that are marked with poverty and ill health, lack of opportunity and despair. The funds that are raised go a long way in bringing hope to people who have little of the worlds resources. I

 hope that we will be able to support their work and perhaps most importantly not forget the plight of many people, who are just like us with the same needs and hopes, and dreams for their lives and children as we have.

Envelopes will be available at church, and you can also give directly to Christian Aid via their website. Thank you for your support. The national Christian Aid week is from 11th - 17th May.

Almighty God, We pray for the work of Christian Aid as they seek to help and support your children who live lives of poverty and hardship.

We pray that the work they do will have a long and lasting effect and remind the world's poor that they are not forgotten or overlooked.

Help us to be grateful for your many blessings to us and may we never forget the needs of those less fortunate than ourselves. We pray this in Jesus’ name, Amen.

Matthew


Charity Film Nights:

Charity Film nights are held in the St. Giles Centre, normally on the last Thursday of each month.

Film details can be found in the Parish Magazine.

Charity in Focus 2023

Here are the charities that were
supported in 2023:
 
Month Charity
Jan / Feb Church of Bangladesh
March MANUP - Men's Mental Health Charity
April / May Christian Aid
(May / June The Parish Fete)
July / August Christians Against Poverty
September Giving to St. Giles
October Poverty and Hope Appeal
November CRISIS
December The Samaritans
 

Charity in Focus 2022

Here are the charities that were
supported in 2022:
.
Month Charity
Jan - Feb The Church of Bangladesh
March Zimbabwe a National Emergency (ZANE)
April  - May Christian Aid
(May - June The Parish Fete)
July - August Away From It All (AFIA)
September The Friends of St. Giles
October Poverty and Hope
November CRISIS
December Bromley Homeless

Eddie Roberts  01689 851267
stgiles.charity@gmail.com

ABOUT ST. GILES CHURCH

Donation from Foresters

On 2nd April 2025 Barbara Pauling, Val Bracey and Chris Stiller from the Orpington Court of the Foresters Friendly Society, presented Rev Mathew Hughes with a cheque for £300.00 as a donation towards the refurbishment of the St Giles Hall for the Bereavement Counselling Service.  



The Foresters is a Friendly Society which was established in1834 when workers combined together to contribute towards sickness payments and death benefits under the principal of mutual self help.  When the Welfare State came into being in 1948 it was feared that Societies, like the Foresters, would collapse but thankfully we were able to survive.  

The Foresters is a nationwide Mutual Branch Society and the local Courts (branches) can donate towards local charities.