Financial Giving
The quickest & easiest way to support us financially is to make an online donation using one of the options below:
If you wish your financial donation to benefit the work of a specific project please let us know, otherwise all financial donations will go to our general fund and be used where most needed to support the work of Southampton City Mission (CIO).
Give via Stewardship
If you would prefer to use Stewardship to donate, please click on the image to be taken to our donation page on the Stewardship platform:
Give by Cheque
If you would rather send us a cheque, please make it payable to Southampton City Mission CIO and post it to:
Unit 5, Second Avenue Business Park,
Millbrook, Southampton, SO15 0LP.
Standing Order
If you would like to financially support Southampton City Mission CIO with regular giving you can request a standing order form from the SCM office.
Please email us on hello@southamptoncitymission.co.uk or telephone 02380 550435.
Enable Gift Aid and Increase your
Donation by 25% at No Extra Cost
If you are a UK taxpayer and you fill out a Gift Aid form for us we can claim an extra 25% back from the government to help with the work of the Mission.
Click Here to access our online gift aid form.
We deliberately keep Southampton City Mission as a small hub, taking in donations for free and giving them away for free, equipping and training volunteers to run the projects and serve the city. We have six full-time staff members and four part-time staff, as well as about 200 volunteers who do everything from packing food parcels and van driving, to schools work and admin support.
As well as wages and volunteer expenses we have two vans to keep running, schools materials to buy, office rent, and all of the usual running costs of a small charity. We are very grateful to all of our church partners who host our Basics Banks as they all give us the rooms and utilities for free.
It is a much easier job to attract donations of food and clothes for those in need, than it is to raise regular, dependable income to pay for the charity which runs those projects! The majority of our income as a charity comes from individuals and church communities giving us donations. We also apply for some funding and grants from charitable trusts and local government.