The Development Group have been very busy these past few weeks, in particular Andy Gray (Project Leader) & Elaine Barrowman (Project Treasurer) as they record and collate the donations and pledges that have been coming in. At this point we are up to £207,000 with donations and pledges. This represents 24% of our target of £850,000. It's all very exciting and the group are delighted to see the funds coming in.

With my Gift Aid Convener hat on, I have been drafting letters, making requested changes to them, printing envelopes, standing order forms, gift aid forms and anything else we think may be needed and beginning to collate who needs what. We hope to have the packs distributed by the end of the year, ready for contributions to begin in January 2017.

Members of the Group have been going on various courses, particularly on seeking funding from external sources, to gain as much knowledge as we can for funding and grant applications. We are making useful contacts who are just at the end of a phone or available by email to help if we need it. We've also been making informal contact with funders, to let them know what we are looking for and to find out if they will consider such an application.

We've set up a display board in the vestibule, and while we agree it could look better, it does provide some useful information and we would suggest everyone has a look at it.. We'll work on the display and hopefully improve it's look soon. If there's anyone with any ideas about the board out there, please let us know. We're all in this together.

The current members of Moncreiff Development Group are:

Andy Gray - Project Leader

Elaine Barrowman - Project Treasurer

Fiona Lamont - Funding Co-ordinator

Bill McDougall - Session Clerk

Brenda McCrae - Deputy Session Clerk

Ian Bremner - Fabric Convener

Neil Buchanan - Our Minister

Feel free to speak to any of us about any questions you may have about the development project, email us at: development_group@moncreiffparishchurch.co.uk or leave a comment here.

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