Helping Hands Fund 2024/25

St Augustine’s Catholic Primary School

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HELPING HANDS FUND

2024/ 25

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“What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want.”

ST AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO

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FROM THE HEADTEACHER This school year, St Augustine’s is celebrating 60 years of excellent Catholic education here in Fulham.

During this time our school community has helped to support our school environment and buildings ensuring that St Augustine’s continues to be the wonderful Catholic school we all know and love. Last year your donations to our Helping Hands Fund helped fund an essential renovation of our school, in previous years we installed a new floor in the hall, redeveloped our prayer gardens and created a new quiet area.

Without this generosity we would not have the wonderful school we have today.

I hope that we can count on your support once again and that after reading this booklet you will make either a one-off donation or a regular monthly gift to the Helping Hands Fund and join us in supporting our Giving Day on 28 February 2025. We are aiming to raise £5,000 to provide our school with class iPads as well as the protective cases and charging equipment needed to go with them.

Martin Kincaid Headteacher

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YOUR SUPPORT

St Augustine heard the command ‘Tolle lege, tolle lege’ as an instruction to deepen his Catholic faith and this led him on his path to sainthood.

In the spirit of our school motto, we want to do the same for our pupils, providing them with an excellent Catholic education that allows them to grow in an academic, spiritual and emotional way. Fundraising will support this with the provision of class iPads.

To do this we need your fundraising support to help us bridge the gap in government funding.

That is why your donations to the Helping Hands Fund are so important.

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So, when Augustine heard the command, “Tolle lege, tolle lege,” (Take up and read, take up and read), he heard it as God’s word to him. Augustine opened the Bible and his eyes fell on Romans 13:13–14 (ESV): “Let us walk properly as in the daytime, ... not in quarreling and jealousy.

But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, to gratify its desires.”

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MAKING A GIFT THAT IS RIGHT FOR YOU You can make either a single or a recurring regular donation using the QR code. Your ongoing support during your child’s journey at St Augustine’s will allow us to plan for the future with confidence.

Consider a Monthly Gift

Annual Donation

After Five Years

£10

£120

£600

£20

£240

£1,200

£35

£420

£2,100

£50

£600

£3,000

£100

£1,200

£6,000

The Saint John Southworth Foundation. Charity Registration: 1121531

WAYS TO GIVE

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1. Make a donation online www.staugustinesrc.lbhf.sch.uk/Support-Us/

2. Set up a regular donation by bank transfer Download this QR code below and fill in a pledge form

3. Payroll Giving and Match Giving An easy, convenient and tax-effective way to make a regular donation. Donate straight from your gross salary (before tax is deducted).

4. Donate via the Arbor App Donate easily with Gift Aid-enabled online donations via the app

HELPING HANDS FUND I understand that this gift will be used by The Saint John Southworth Foundation for the benefit of St Augustine's Catholic Primary School.

I would like to make a voluntary gift: I pledge a monthly/annual amount of £________ over ________ years for a total gift of £________ OR I would like to make a one-off gift of £________.

Title First name Surname Address Postcode

Signature

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Date Increase the value of your donation at no additional cost to you:

Yes, I am a UK taxpayer and I want to gift aid this donation, any donation I make in the future and any donations made in the past 4 years to The Saint John Southworth Foundation.

PAYMENT OPTIONS: Standing orders or direct transfers can be made using the school’s bank details below. Cheques or cash can also be returned to the school with this form.

Account name: STSF St Augustine's Association Sort Code: 30-93-79 Account Number: 23304268 Bank Name: Lloyds Bank Payment reference: Please include 'STAU' and your inital and surname as reference Please tell us the date of your first online payment: Completed forms should be returned to: The Office, St Augustine's Catholic Primary School, Disbrowe Road, London W6 8QE, emailed to development@sjscat.co.uk or handed in to the School Office.

Saint John Southworth Foundation. 89 Addison Road, London W14 8BZ. Charity Registration: 1121531