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Church Collection Envelopes: Choosing the Right Donation Envelope for Your Church
Church Collection Envelopes: Choosing the Right Donation Envelope for Your Church
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For churches, charities and religious organisations, donation envelopes remain one of the most effective ways to encourage regular giving, simplify administration and maximise Gift Aid income. Whether you’re looking for... Read more...
The Pros and Cons of Stock vs. Custom Printed Church Envelopes
The Pros and Cons of Stock vs. Custom Printed Church Envelopes
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Churches often face the decision of choosing between stock printed envelopes and custom printed ones, each with its own set of advantages and challenges. In this blog, we will explore... Read more...
Exploring the Benefits of Offertory Envelopes
Exploring the Benefits of Offertory Envelopes
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In the realm of religious observance, certain traditions endure as pillars of spiritual practice. Among these traditions lies the use of offertory envelopes, a humble yet significant element in the... Read more...
How Church Envelopes Increase Donations
How Church Envelopes Increase Donations
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Offering envelopes have been a staple in church funding for years and many churches include offertory and regular collection envelopes as their main method of fund raising. While the global... Read more...
The Right Envelope for your Church or Charity
The Right Envelope for your Church or Charity
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Most churches and charities rely on their donations to continue the valued work that they do in their local communities and even on a national scale. In this blog, we... Read more...
Designing your church offertory envelopes
Designing your church offertory envelopes
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Church envelopes, often referred to as offering envelopes, are paper envelopes that are used to give tithes or donations to their churches. Offertory envelopes are one of the most effective... Read more...
New website: now live
New website: now live
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We have launched our new, modern website with complete ease of ordering features. This blog provides step-by-step instruction that you may refer to if you are having trouble getting to... Read more...
A Guide to Gift Aid
A Guide to Gift Aid
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What is Gift Aid? Gift Aid is a tax relief for individuals that enables them to give the income tax or capital gains tax that they pay directly to a... Read more...
Church Safety and Post-COVID Worship
Church Safety and Post-COVID Worship
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Securing your place of worship against COVID-19 Whilst many places of worship have remained open for communal services in some of the UK, there will still be changes to usual... Read more...
Harvest Festival – Origins, facts and customs
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The Harvest Festival is a long-standing tradition and celebrates a successful yield for farmers across the country. Today, it focuses on charitable giving, specifically sharing food with those who do Read more...
Important: Changes to your Envelopes
Important: Changes to your Envelopes
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We will now be supplying full colour printed designs at no extra cost on all Weekly Boxed Sets, Monthly Boxed Sets, Loose Printed Envelopes, and Gift Aid Envelopes. Read more...
Preserving Traditional Offertory Envelopes
Preserving Traditional Offertory Envelopes
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Traditional offertory envelopes have been a staple of the church community for almost 100 years and the decision to move from loose plate to planned giving is perhaps the most... Read more...
COVID-19 – our response
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We are currently facing a life-changing situation and we want you to know that our customers, our employees and our community is in mind with everything we do. Whilst we are striving to run our operat Read more...
Donation Envelopes and Multi-Platform Strategies
Donation Envelopes and Multi-Platform Strategies
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Gift Aid Donation Envelopes remain one of the most effective and easiest methods of raising and collecting funds from patrons. Gift Aid Envelopes are fully customisable and can be branded... Read more...
Christmas Catch Up 2019
Christmas Catch Up 2019
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Thank you to all of our loyal Lockie customers for allowing us to produce your offertory and collection envelopes throughout 2019. We have had a busy year and launched our... Read more...
Church and Charities missing out on £600m in unclaimed Gift Aid
Church and Charities missing out on £600m in unclaimed Gift Aid
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According to a 2018 report from the government, UK church and charities are missing out on £600m in gift aid donations because people are not enabling them to claim gift... Read more...
Church donations and community support in the aftermath of the Grenfell Tower tragedy
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Recounting the events from the early hours of Wednesday the 14th of June 2017 In a world in which fear and terror are now part of everyday conversation it is an uncomfortable realisation that donation Read more...
The Importance of Remembering the Holy Souls
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The Month of the Holy Souls begins on 2nd November and we discuss the month dedicated to the souls of the departed. What is All Souls Day? All Souls Day is a chance for us to commemorate and honour th Read more...
Boost your Gift Aid Donations
Boost your Gift Aid Donations
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We all know the importance of Gift Aid for getting the most out of your donations, but the increased demand on administration means that Gift Aid can be quite time... Read more...