GET INVOLVED AND HELP SUPPORT THE WORK OF THE BELFREY
We are organising a number of fun community fundraising initiatives for 2025!
These will raise important funds towards our work - including our social transformation work (helping to reduce poverty, improving mental health and supporting vulnerable families in York) and evangelism*.
This is where the whole church community (of any age) and interested parties can get involved and have some fun together!
PLEASE NOMINATE THE BELFREY (SAFE FAMILIES) TO WIN £1,000
The Benefact Trust is giving away £1,000 to 120 charities in 12 prize draws this December and in the new year! All we have to do to be in the running for the money is to be nominated, and the more nominations we as a church get, the greater the chance of success! Therefore, please could you spare a moment to nominate us asap....all you have to do is click here and click the 'Nominate a charity for £1000' button! Enter St Michael le Belfrey in the search bar, click on our full charity name that pops up and enter your details. It'll take you less than 2 minutes! If we're successful we will put the money towards the Belfrey Safe Families service, supporting vulnerable families in York. Thank you very much!
CAPTURING YORK PHOTOGRAPHY COMPETITION RESULTS & CALENDAR
We are delighted to announce the winners and runners up of our Capturing York Photography competition!
The overall winner is ANDY FALCONER
The other winners are: John Lindley, Karen Dixon, John Hanna, Izzy Stone, Jack Cave, Al Elmes, Lucy Ruddle, Zoe King, Jennie Lunn, Rora Stephenson and Jamie Bowman.
The runners up are: Luke Snocken, Christopher Reece, Claire Treherne, Karen Dixon, Nieve Motyer Lowndes, Emma Vincent, Barrie Stephenson, Zoe King, Jennie Lunn, Andy Falconer and Izzy Stone.
Big congratulations to all our winners and runners up, whose images will be featured in our Capturing York 2026 fundraising calendar. This will be available to buy from 26 September for £10 each, with its sale debut being at the Autumn Ceilidh! You will then be able to purchase it at church services on regular occasions and at our event at St Crux on 25 October. It will make a great present! All calendar proceeds will go towards Belfrey running costs, including social transformation and evangelism.
Thank you again to everyone who entered our competition, without you we wouldn't have such a fantastic fundraising calendar to sell. We received nearly 200 competition entries showcasing a wonderful spread of images of our city, giving our judges a very hard task. A big shout out to our judges too for their time and commitment - Tim Elwood, Thom Holmes and Ben Porter - thank you!
*The work of The Belfrey spans a wide range of ministries, focussing on 5 key areas: prayer and worship, transforming lives (social transformation in York), developing leaders and planting churches.