Parish Contacts

SCIAF is aiming to have a parish contact is every church across Scotland to help us create a better future for communities in some of the poorest countries in the world.

If you have any spare time you can play your part by putting up posters, distributing leaflets, holding fundraising events, and raising awareness of SCIAF’s work in your very own parish.

Most parish contacts help their parish priest promote and organise activities for SCIAF’s major annual fundraising drive during Lent with its award-winning WEE BOX, BIG Change campaign.

We find many parish priests really appreciate someone else taking on the task or at least being ready to help out. SCIAF’s 2007 Lenten campaign raised well over £800,000. Could you help raise money in your parish?

SCIAF provides beautiful Lenten packs to its parish contacts which are full of all the necessary resources and materials you need such as special prayer booklets, ideas for fundraising, leaflets, and much more. SCIAF staff, volunteers and ambassadors are happy to give talks and presentations – you just need to get in touch.

SCIAF parish contacts are also the first point of contact for any SCIAF enquiries and play a key role especially during Lent when they inform their fellow parishioners about the latest SCIAF campaign and distribute Lent packs.

You can adapt this role to suit your needs and the needs of your parish.

One hundred volunteer parish contacts have already signed up but SCIAF needs many more as we would ideally like to have a SCIAF parish contact in every one of the four hundred parishes in Scotland.

If you have any spare time and would like to be a SCIAF parish contact and help make a real difference to the lives of people living in poverty around the world we would love to hear from you. Contact Peter McMillan, SCIAF’s Volunteer Coordinator on tel: 0141 354 5555, email: pmcmillan@sciaf.org.uk.