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BISHOP STREET FUND-RAISING

SPONSORED WALK FOR THE CHAPEL Bishop Street Wesleyan Chapel was built 193 years ago, and on Sept 27th 2008 a group of church members joined me to walk 193 laps around the Town Hall Square between us. Thanks to the many people who kindly sponsored us, we were able to raise £989.06 received so far. this will help develop our beautiful Georgian Methodist Church, so that we can also offer heritage, exhibition, art, café, performance and community facilities for the people of Leicester. Last autumn we submitted our funding request to the Heritage Lottery Fund. However, evidence of wide support is vital to this - and gifts of even a small amount help to boost not just our funds but the strength of our bid as well. Any further donations will of course be extremely welcome. Please help with whatever you can afford. Donate online at www.everyclick.com/bishopstreetmeth odistchurch or send a donation direct to Bishop Street Methodist Church, 10a Bishop Street, Leicester, LE1 6AF Or, why not become a ‘Friend of the Chapel’ Thank you for your support. Revd Jill Marsh.

Talents Challenge:

This is our major effort for Lent 2009, and Church Members are being challenged to take a £10 note and see what ways they can turn this into more, by effort, ingenuity and creative projects. Launched on March 1st 2009, the results by Sept 2009 were that upwards of £900 has been raised from an initial ‘investment’ of £170 in start-up packs.

We also have two fundraising features in our weekday Open Church activities. We now have a home-made cake stall every Tuesday, and a bring and buy every Friday. These are open 11.30-1.00, and you are welcome to call in to see what takes your fancy.

You may be interested in three on-line ways you can help us raise funds for the Chapel development:-

Everyclick

This is a new online fundraising idea for us. Everyclick run a search engine, and donates 50% of its revenue to charities. The revenue comes from adverts etc, and the charities are selected by the people doing the searching .... potentially you. By selecting Bishop Street Methodist Church as your recipient charity, we will gain a tiny bit of cash each time you do a seach, and if enough people do this, we could get quite a bit of cash. For a one-off search you can use www.everyclick.com/bishopstreetmethodistchurch If you are prepared to register with them (which is free), you could install everyclick as the Explorer default searchbar. And if you can persuade family, friends and colleagues to do likewise, it could start to mount up to something substantial. To register, go to www.everyclick.com, search their charities for Bishop Street Methodist Church, and click Go to fundraise for this charity now. This will both allow you to register, and set Bishop Street as your default recipient.

SHOPPING ON-LINE: www.buy.at/thechapel

buy.at/ is a webshop that gives access to a huge range of retailers including M&S, John Lewis, HMV, Waterstones, Staples and hundreds of others. If you reach these websites through our webshop at www.buy.at/thechapel you will pay no more than if you went direct to their website, but Bishop Street will earn a small percentage of what you spend. (Your computer needs to be set to ‘allow cookies’ – most PCs are – so that the sites can keep track of your purchases).

If you – or people you know – are  shopping on-line regularly, please consider using www.buy.at/thechapel.

Bonus time for Bishop Street Methodist Church When new business customers shop at Euroffice Bishop Street Methodist Church will receive 8% off what is spent plus a £5 bonus! As an introductory offer new business customers will receive 20% off their first order too!  To receive 20% off with no minimum purchase simply click this link. Please circulate this message to any businesses that would like to support Bishop Street Methodist Church. This is a limited offer. Thanks Bishop Street Methodist Church   Visit www.buy.at/thechapel for more great offers from over 150 top retailers.

EBAY FOR CHARITY

We are now registered with Ebay for charitable purposes. This means if you are selling an item on Ebay you could choose to donate a proportion of your sale (anything from 10% to 100%) to Bishop Street Methodist Church. The mechanics of this are all handled by MissionFish, and as a seller you would also need to register with them, but this is a free, straightforward process. If you would like more information, or are interested in learning more about Ebay selling please contact Robin at office@bishopstreetchurch.org.uk. If you would be interested in receiving saleable items to sell on our behalf we would be especially pleased to hear from you. If you don’t wish to do the ebay selling yourself, but wish to donate postable items that might sell for £2 or more, please pass them on to the Church Stewards or drop them in at the Church Office.

You can see the (very small at present) range of items currently for sale that benefit the church at http://www.missionfish.org.uk/NPMMF/nphomepage.jsp?NP_I D=18850

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