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Our Monthly Giving Target for Our Community
Each month we will endeavour to show the financial support we are receiving from our online community. This will not include the funding we receive from those who are partnering us to enable us to eventually become self-funding. Our aim is to use this graph to encourage regular giving from those who use the website and the app and who follow us actively on social media.
- During 2025 we are seeking to increase the giving of the community from £3,000 per month to £5,000 per month by December 2025.
- In 2026 we are looking for the Sanctuary First community to grow and for our income to increase to £7,000 per month
- In 2027 we are looking to grow the community and our income to £9,000 per month.
Meanwhile, we are deeply grateful to a number of Charitable Foundations and individuals who have committed to cover the gap in our funding to enable us to grow to the point where we as a community are less reliant on External Grant/Trust funds because we have built up a committed membership of people who value the ministry of Sanctuary First and are willing to make regular giving commitments that make us a long term-sustainable ministry supported by the many.
Supporting Sanctuary First
You can support our work by making a donation. It is a quick and simple process, and you can donate a one-off gift, or give a regular amount every month.
We are passionate about offering fresh and engaging ways to connect with people who are unfamiliar, or perhaps all-too-familiar with church, but who wish to interact with prayer, the Bible, spirituality, and one another without feeling under pressure to conform to a stereotype of Christianity. It is important to us to make these resources freely available to be as accessible and inclusive as possible. We also want to maintain a standard of creativity, innovation and quality in our output that helps our resources be attractive, relevant and engaging.
The journey so far
What is Sanctuary First?
Daily worship readings and prayers
Live & in-person worship with Sunday Live
Prayers, poetry and creative expesssions of faith
Regular new podcasts exploring faith in the 21st century
Regular new blogs and faith-based reflective writing
New music from Christian artists across Scotland and the world
Live events and praise every week
Developing Sanctuary First
The cost of maintaining Sanctuary First in its current form amounts to approximately £100,000 per annum. We hope to grow Sanctuary First over the next three years.
In 2026 we’re planning for a budget of £130,000 and in 2027 we are aiming to have a budget £150,000.
Your donation will help us:
- provide a daily worship resource to a wide group of people, many of whom feel disconnected or disengaged from conventional church
- use social media in creative ways to build Christian community, across Scotland and around the world.
- equip the wider church to participate in digital media by engaging with our pilot partnership programme to help build a network of shared digital ministry.
- produce innovative resources such as teaching materials through our Connect Groups, new songs, poems, reflections, blog posts, podcasts and high quality short films, all with the intention of inspiring personal and public worship. This material available to download.
- hosting dynamic events for people to attend in person and to stream online - this includes our current daily 7am live prayer slot and our Friday Jam Sessions and monthly opportunities to celebrate the Lord’s Supper.
- cover our administrative and website, app & social media development costs