Generosity Week

A colourful graphic featuring a church, a mother and child dancing and some houses, with the words Generosity Week 2023 in the centre
You can use Generosity Week resources to support your church’s journey of generosity - see all that's available below.

Generosity Week takes place in the Harvest season, so that as we thank God for his generosity to us, we also have the opportunity to think about how we might respond to that generosity.

Generosity Week is also deliberately flexible to suit all types of church. If you want to set one up, here's how to start:

  1. Pick a week. There will be a national week around Harvest time (dates will be announced later in 2024), but if another time works better for you, do it then.
  2. Contact your Diocesan Giving Adviser for help and advice.
  3. Choose what to do by looking at the summary of resources available. Make sure you have enough people to help you out with the initiatives you want to do.
  4. Plan your Sundays - two Sundays works well because it gives you one chance to explore gratitude, and one for generosity. To get you started, there are service outlines, sermon starters and prayers - all generosity-themed.

By the end of Generosity Week all of us will have a deeper understanding of God’s generosity towards us and how we can live more generously in our daily lives.

There will also be a national online Eucharist to celebrate generosity on the first Sunday. 

The Generosity Newsletter

A colourful thumbnail image of the September 2023 Generosity Week newsletter

Back issues of Generosity Week Newsletters for 2023

Download and read the September issue here (final issue of 2023)

Download and read the August issue here

Download and read the July issue here

Download and read the June issue here

 

Back issues of Generosity Week newsletters 2022

Download and read Issue 10 here (final issue of 2022).

Download and read Issue 9 here

Download and read Issue 8 here

Download and read Issue 7 here

Download and read issue 6 here

Download and read issue 5 here

Download and read issue 4 here

Download and read issue 3 here

Download and read issue 2 here

Download and read Issue 1 here

"Our faith starts with the most generous gift of all – God’s gift to us of life itself and new life and new hope in Jesus Christ. What we call 'generosity’ is just our response to these great gifts. I’m therefore delighted to commend these resources that help us explore God’s amazing generosity. This is what Generosity Week is all about. The stories in these podcasts, reflections and resources are moving, inspiring and encouraging. Just like in the parable of the sower, where the seed that falls on good soil grows a crop a hundred, sixty or thirty times what was sown, we see that every generous act grows further generosity."

The Right Reverend Stephen Cottrell, Archbishop of York

Generosity Week

Get Involved

Reflections on Bible verses helping us to consider different facets of generosity.

Generosity Week in your church

Generosity Week in your church

Service materials, discipleship resources, ways of engaging the wider community and resources for young people.  As well as guidance to help your church host a Generosity Week.