Prices and Grants

Grant funding may be available from your own church structures for our days and weekends (see below)

RECESSION BUSTER
Everyone, including churches are having a hard time, so for the next 12 months, we have brought down the prices of our weekends.

Mondays to Fridays are £180 £125 a day

Saturdays and Sundays are £250 £195 a day

A whole weekend (Saturday and Sunday) is £350 £295

Additional children's or young people's programme is £100 + expenses.

A Friday evening extension to a weekend is £100 £75

A Holiday Club (6 days, Tuesday - Sunday including worship) is £795 £695

Mileage is 40p a mile (minimum £50)

Methodists should look to their Circuit or District for help in funding a day or weekend. Districts often have grant funding available for the type of courses we run. Martin Atkins (President of the Methodist Church) says that there is more money available from Districts for imaginative schemes than for a very long time. Since your weekend may well be the start to a creative scheme, then it is certainly worth contacting your Chair of District or Synod Secretary to see if help is available.

NB. If one or more of your ministers are to take part in the day then their CDIM allowances could be used to help fund the day ... more

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