Workplace Ministry Funding
This web site outlines the valuable service that Workplace Ministry Herts & Beds provides in the workplace through over 40 full-time and part-time chaplains.
The notional cost of all our work is nearly £300,000.
Around half this figure comprises the cost of the four paid senior chaplains, plus the pro-rata cost of sessional workplace chaplaincy services provided by local clergy.
Nearly all of these costs fall directly on the churches, with one client contributing.
Most of the other half denotes the notional value of the chaplaincy services generously provided by teams of trained and dedicated volunteers, including one senior chaplain.
The small remaining budget (under 4% of the total) has to meet the costs of core chaplaincy training and support, communications, publications, recruitment, insurance, general administration and the working expenses of three of the senior chaplains.
This resource is funded from client and personal donations in cash and kind, local church contributions and through the skills and time given by volunteer administrators.
We are extremely grateful for the continuing financial support of clients, churches and individuals. In particular we are thankful for the work of our committed voluntary chaplains and administrators.
However, with costs already cut to a low level, we are still drawing on dwindling reserves.
In order to meet existing commitments we need to raise another £15,000 per annum.
Meanwhile the need and opportunity for our services continues to grow.
If we are to sustain and develop the work to meet this demand then we must:
- Fund the expansion of the Core Team of paid professional Chaplains, in proportion to the growth of volunteer staff:
- Adequately fund the training, support and administration resource:
- Achieve a more equitable mix of funding, to reflect the value of the service that is provided [e.g. currently 50% of the overall cost is met by the Church of England and only 7% by the clients].
Financial Information
Where the money goes?:
£k/annum
Core Team 140
Voluntary chaplains 132
Admin/overheads 22
- Notional cost of voluntary chaplains is £25/hour
- Notional cost of unpaid admin staff is £10k/pa
Who Pays for the service?:
Contributions (in funds or notional cost of time) are as follows
Clients 7%
C of E 50%
Salvation Army 14%
URC 10%
Baptist 5%
Methodist 5%
Roman Catholic 1%
Other Churches 4%
Unfunded 4% (drawn from small & diminishing reserves)
Who benefits from our service?
Public sector
Private sector
- Transport 26%
- Retail 12%
- Manufacturing 11%
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