eligibility

The gifts from your donors are charitable gifts to Stewardship.

We therefore have a responsibility to ensure that the gifts to you are a proper use of our charitable funds. This means that we make appropriate checks from time to time and particularly before you first receive any funds from us.

1. Income assessment:
   Questions relating to how your time is spent on a weekly basis and the income you receive are necessary, so that we can assess whether or not making donations directly to you will represent a charitable application of our funds. It may be necessary for us to ask supplementary questions for the same reason.
2. UK Nationals:
   Stewardship requires your National Insurance number and written confirmation from the church or organisation you work with, that you are in full, or substantially full time Christian work. This is so that HM Revenue & Customs can make checks should it wish to.
3. Non-UK Nationals
   1. Working with a UK-based church or Christian organisation: It will be sufficient for the UK-based church/organisation to provide a letter on its official note paper confirming that you are in full, or substantially full time Christian work with it.
      If you do not hold a UK bank account, please contact us for a separate form which you can use to provide us with non UK bank account details.
   2. Based outside the UK and not attached to a UK-based church or Christian organisation. We regret that we cannot make payments in these circumstances because of the problems of producing evidence to satisfy HM Revenue & Customs.

The gifts from your supporters are charitable gifts to Stewardship. We therefore have a responsibility to ensure that the gifts to you are a proper use of our charitable funds. This means that we make appropriate checks from time to time and particularly before you first receive any funds from us.

As an essential part of the application process for non-UK organisations, we require:

1. an English translation of your organisation’s founding/governing/constituting document, together with a copy of the original document;
2. a copy of your Government’s confirmation of your organisation’s NGO/charitable status (Registration document or certificate);
3. a copy of the most recent set of audited accounts for your organisation;
4. full Bank account details, including Swift/BIC Code, together with an original, pre-printed item of Bank stationery;
5. a reference from a UK-based charity/organisation, which greatly assists you with your application;
6. (for Indian charities) a copy of your organisation’s FCR certificate.

For further information and to obtain an application form to register with us please complete our online enquiry form.