Giving
In September 2024, through the combined support of the Diocese of Exeter, with our Patron, the Dean and Chapter of Exeter Cathedral, and the ambitious vision of our community and supporters, St Michael’s became a Conventional District Church.
The School and Alms Cottages here on Mount Dinham were built in the 1860s through the generous philanthropy of John Dinham. St Michael’s Church itself was established as a “Chapel of Ease for the Poor of the Parish”, thanks to the generous benefaction of William Gibbs.
Today, it costs about £700 per week to keep St Michael’s open as a resource for the community; a place of prayer, music, liturgy, outreach and training. Unlike many of our European neighbours, churches in the UK receive no funding from the Government.
Our income is variously supported through donations and gifts from the community and visitors, through hire income, stewardship, fundraising, grants and regular, planned giving.
If you would like to join our Parish Giving Scheme, please go to parishgiving.org.uk and enter the parish code (150615072). Members of St Michael’s community also continue to support charitable organisations and groups, including some of those featured further down this page.
If you feel moved to give and would like to help ensure that St Michael’s Mount Dinham has a sustainable future for generations to come, please contact Ian Walker, Treasurer to the PCC:
treasurer@stmichaelsmountdinham.org.uk
All gifts are most gratefully received. Thank you.
Donate to support St Michael's Mount Dinham
The ongoing maintenance and restoration of this extraordinary Grade 1 listed building requires regular financial support. Through generous gifts of any size we can ensure that St Michael's will be here for future generations. St Michael's is a registered Charity no. ZD34789. To make a donation to St Michael's Mount Dinham, please contact the Treasurer to the PCC, Ian Walker treasurer@stmichaelsmountdinham.org.uk
Your support is much appreciated. Thank you.
The Heritage & Music Development Group was established over 15 years ago to support and sustain the life of St Michael's Mount Dinham and to share its rich heritage more widely. Heritage, music and community activities have been generously supported by the Heritage Fund, the Benefact Trust (formerly Allchurches Trust), Viridor Penon and through private donations. St Michael's has been endowed with a fine Victorian pipe organ, peregrine webcam and multimedia website. A Listed Places of Worship Roof Repair Fund Project has repaired and renewed our rainwater goods. We are currently fundraising for a new Director of Music post at St Michael's.
Bank details -
Name: PCC St Michael Mount Dinham
Sort code: 30-99-50
Account no: 64636062
Community of Al-Khalil - Syria
Professor Emma Loosley's lecture on 2nd July 2014 at St. Michael's was followed by a retiring collection, from which half the proceeds was sent to the Al Khalil community in Syria, of which she was a part.
Emma has, at our request, sent details of how you can still donate to the charitable work of the community, which is working for refugees regardless of their religion inside Syria (aid generally is targeted at helping refugees who have left the country).
Emma says:
Below please find the details of the Community bank account - Jihad is Fr. Jihad, who is joint acting superior of the Community of Al-Khalil with Sr. Huda whilst the fate of Fr. Paolo remains unknown. He holds the account with Sr. Deema because she is studying for a doctorate at the Gregoriana and can administer the Community finances in Italy. Deema returns to Syria every summer and takes cash across the border from Lebanon, as Syria has been cut off from international banking networks by sanctions - it means one of the Community has to make the hazardous crossing backwards and forwards to Beirut as the only way of bringing in donations from outside, but the alternative is starvation.
To find out more, googling "Deir Mar Musa" will bring hundreds (if not thousands!) of hits as most visitors refer to the monastery when they mean to refer to the Community who live there and look for "Mar Musa" rather than "Al-Khalil".
Please make donations direct to the bank account, with bank details as follow:
YOUSSEF JIHAD e FAYYAD DEEMA
Banca UNICREDIT. Agenzia di Cori (Lt)
IBAN IT 22 X 02008 73961 000102706658
BIC Swift: UNCRITM1C94
Thandigudi Goodwill Trust Children's Home - India
The Goodwill Children's Home, at Thandigudi, India | Goodwill Trust
History of Goodwill Children's Homes
The story of Goodwill began in Tamil Nadu in the 1970s when a couple of school teachers established the first home for younger children at Thandigudi. In the years which followed they expanded the operation on that site and built a base of supporters in the United Kingdom and further afield. The object of Goodwill from the earliest years was to provide care and education for destitute children in a small part of Tamil Nadu which included both an area of plains (around Dindigul) and the Palani Hills around Thandigudi.