You can run Generosity Week in your church to coincide with your Harvest Festival. As churches celebrate Harvest at different times this could be at any time between August to October. But if that doesn't work for you, don't let it put you off. We are called to be generous 365 days a year, so run it whenever suits you!
Take a look below at the various resources your church might use during Generosity Week. You may wish to use all the resources available or just a selection.
Overview
To help you start promoting Generosity Week and begin planning, see this year's summary of the resources that will be provided, along with four easy steps to get you started.
If you'd like an introduction to Generosity Week and an explanation of all the opportunities it presents, watch this 30min webinar.
Walk Through the Resources
This document shows you how all the Generosity Week resources fit together, along with how and where to use them.
Generosity Week Newsletter
The National Giving Team will be offering a newsletter for a limited time only to help you get ready for Generosity Week. It's very short, and if you sign up, you'll receive it only until the end of September ... and then it will stop!
Sign up to receive it in your email inbox
See back issues of the newsletter on this page.
Celebrating our Legacy
This session explores the material and spiritual legacy we have received from the things that we value, and what our role might be in passing on that legacy to future generations.
- Download Celebrating our Legacy Leaders’ Guide
- Download Celebrating our Legacy Participants’ booklet
Generosity Week and young people
Whether there'll be a Sunday school happening in the parish over the summer or not, this colourful table of eight mini challenges will offer something absorbing for children to do while helping them to think about generosity:
Engaging with the community
Download and read this helpful flyer (PDF) for ideas on engaging with the wider community during Generosity Week.
Podcasts, Reflections and Activities
Our range of Generosity Week podcasts for 2023 have now been launched.
Encourage your community to listen in their own time and complete the daily challenges over the week. Explore 2023 podcasts.
Resources for Services
Online service
On Sunday, September 24th 2023, there will be an online service to mark the start of this year's Generosity Week.
To ensure you don't forget and miss out, you can sign up to an email list and receive news and updates about weekly online services just here.
Daily Morning Prayer
Eight Daily Morning Prayer Services (all PDF):
Evening Prayer and Compline
An outline service for Evening Prayer (PDF)
An outline service for Evening Prayer (Word)
An outline service for Compline (PDF).
An outline service for Compline (Word)
Weekly Service Material – Grace and Gratitude
Eucharist Material
- 1st Sunday of the week: A Eucharist to celebrate Generosity (PDF)
- 2nd Sunday of the week: A Eucharist to celebrate Gratitude (PDF)
Service of the Word
- A Service of the Word to celebrate Generosity (PDF)
- A Service of the Word to celebrate Gratitude (PDF
Service Content Packs
Marketing resources
To help you promote your church’s Generosity Week, we have prepared the following marketing materials:
Style guide
You are welcome to generate your own resources to support Generosity Week. If you do, please use these style guidelines to help you.
Promotional flyers
You might like to use these ready-made flyers to promote Generosity Week. There are two designs to choose from, and each design also has a version you can customise with your own details.
- Generosity Week 2023 flyer design 1 - simply download and distribute
- Generosity Week 2023 flyer design 2 - simply download and distribute
- Generosity Week 2023 flyer design 3 - simply download and distribute
- Generosity Week 2023 flyer design 4 - simply download and distribute
Canva users can access the Canva templates for flyer designs 1 and 2 using the links below. You can then customise them with your own details, save and then download them.
- Generosity Week 2023 flyer design 1 Canva template
- Generosity Week 2023 flyer design 2 Canva template
These editable PDFs for designs 3 and 4 can also be customised. Download them first, overtype your own text onto page 2 and then save into your usual files before distributing.
- Flyer design 3 editable PDF download
- Flyer design 4 editable PDF download
Branded email signatures
Branded PowerPoint templates
Download a Generosity Week branded PowerPoint template
Social media graphics
A great way of promoting Generosity Week is to have a link to the daily podcasts or the daily activities on your church social media feed(s). In the files below, you’ll see one graphic for each podcast, and in a format that is suitable for either Facebook, Instagram or Twitter.
When you have downloaded each PDF, open it and right click on the artwork for the day you want to promote. Choose 'Export As' and then choose jpeg to change the format to a single image that you can use on that day.
A general image to help you promote any other Generosity Week events you’re holding can be downloaded here. Open the image and click right on it to 'Save Image As' and then rename it to save it into your own files ready to use.
What happens after Generosity Week?
Generosity doesn’t end after Generosity Week. Generosity is at the heart of our faith and we need to continuously consider the steps needed to build a generous church. We have created the following resources to help guide your church: