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You are invited to apply for Archbishop Appeal Grants

The Archbishop’s Appeal is a fundraising appeal that takes place across parishes in the Archdiocese of Southwark each year. Launched in November 2022, this fundraising effort seeks to invest faith, hope, love, and charity into the missionary work of the Archdiocese in three key areas: Youth and Evangelisation, Social Outreach and Clergy Care.

Grants of up to £5,000 are available to support innovative projects taking place in Southwark parishes, schools, commissions, and other Catholic entities working alongside the Archdiocese, which seek to enhance one or more of the key missionary areas: Youth/Evangelisation or Social Outreach. 

How to apply?

Grant Opens: 1 May 2025 to 1 July 2025.

Grant Decisions: August 2025.

Grant Guidelines and Eligibility: Click here

To apply to the Archbishop’s Appeal Grant, please complete the application online: Click here

Grants to support projects that enhance the following mission areas:

Youth / Evangelisation

To strengthen the formation of young people in the faith within Catholic schools and parishes in the Archdiocese of Southwark, to enhance the faith life of parishioners, support the work of parish catechists, for Southwark to become an evangelising and missionary Archdiocese.

For example:

• Youth ministry and engagement in parishes and schools
• Development and training of parish catechists and resources for adult formation
• Catholic chaplains in universities and schools
• Catholic ethos in Catholic schools
• Marriage and Family Life courses

Social Outreach

To show compassionate and active service in the world around us through love for all people: the protection of human dignity, respect for the inter-connectedness of our world and common home, hearing the cry of the poor and the cry of the earth. Supporting social outreach projects taking place in parishes and schools.

For example:

• Social outreach projects in Catholic parishes and schools (projects helping migrants and refugees, the homeless, alleviating food poverty, supporting marginalised groups, care for the elderly and isolated, etc.)
• Prison Ministry
• Environmentally conscious parish projects
• Ethnic Chaplaincy, Ecumenical Projects, Racial Justice and Inclusion, Justice and Peace.

More information available:  rcaos.org.uk/archbishops-appeal-grant.