Generosity Week Resources for Churches

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The official Generosity Week 2023 is now over, but generosity is a year-round joy, so feel free to use any of the resources below any time.

You can run a Generosity Week in your church to coincide with your Harvest Festival, 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 a 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.

Download the summary

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

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.

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

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

The Generosity Week service for 2023 came from Stockton Parish Church. You can watch it here

Daily Morning Prayer

Eight Daily Morning Prayer Services (all PDF):

Day 1

Day 2

Day 3

Day 4

Day 5

Day 6

Day 7

Day 8

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

Service of the Word

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. 

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.

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.

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: