eligibility

In order to receive funds from Stewardship it is first important that we establish your eligibility as a recipient.  This starts with an application form, which is then assessed by an experienced member of our giving services team.  Once accepted, we may still ask for additional information, from time to time, in order to ensure that you remain eligible to receive funds.

Some notes on eligibility:

Before completing an application form, we recommend that you familiarise yourself with the relevant section below, in order to help determine your 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 application forms

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