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Finances

Collection bags from various periods

Finances are a necessary aspect of Church life. Because there is very little funding from government, all the money needed to pay the Rector and maintain the church has to come from the people who belong to St John's.

  • Vestry meeting 18th April 1904

    The enormous difficulty of keeping our large Churchyard in anything like order was brought before the Vestry and it was ...

  • Church Repairs: June 1904

    ”  . . . we trust that the Parishioners of S. John’s and Members of the Congregation will bear seriously ...

  • Financial matters, March 1913

    The Rector said the offertories during the year amounted to £444 13s 3d and their donations to outside objects came ...

  • Financial matters, April 1923

    Mr Hillman, on behalf of the Finance Committee, presented the church accounts, which showed that the total income during the ...

  • Diocesan Quota 1937

    (Note: The Diocesan Quota is a sum of money which parishes have to pay to the Diocese each year for ...

  • Diocesan Quota 1940

    The Rector reported that although they had got through 1939 very satisfactorily from a financial point of view, they had ...

  • Financial difficulties 1940

    The Rector reported that their finances were in a sound condition until a month or two ago when the very ...

  • Diocesan Quota 1941

    Sir Cuthbert Sprawson asked how the parochial quota from St John’s compared with the amount required from other parishes? The Rector ...

  • Financial problems 1941

    The Rector reported that the quota expected from St John’s Parish was £86 a year (about £4,400 today), and until ...

  • Diocesan Quota 1942

    Suggestions that the Diocesan quota, which amounts to £86 (about £4,000 today) and which was the assessment made some years ...

  • Diocesan Quota 1943

    The Rector alluded to the fact that their diocesan quota was £86 per year, which he said, in these days ...

  • Disappointing church income 1943

    The Rector said that the St John’s Parish is not considered to be one of the plums of the diocese. This ...

  • 20 years as Rector, April 1944

    The Rector referred to the fact that he had recently completed 20 years as rector of St John’s, and gave ...

  • Church restoration fund, 1952

    A profit of £224 5s 10d (about £6,500 pounds today) had been made for the church restoration fund as a result ...

  • High praise for Rectorless Lewes Parish, 1953

    The generous way in which parishioners had raised £628 for the Restoration fund of St John’s Church, Lewes (about £16,500 ...

  • Acute money shortage at St John's, 1955

    At the Annual Meeting of St John’s Church, Lewes, at the Church Hall on Wednesday, the Rev. A P Cameron ...

  • Financial matters, 1956

    Mr F W Jones (churchwarden) reported a surplus of £151 9s 9d on all accounts last year (about £3,600 today), ...

  • St John's facing a very stiff problem, 1956

    The “very stiff problem” facing St John’s, Lewes – brought to a head by the retirement of the Rev. A ...

  • Staff problems of Parishes, 1957

    At the St John’s, Lewes, Annual Parochial Church Meeting on Wednesday, the Rev. A P Cameron (Rector) referred to the ...

  • Satisfactory finances, 1958

    Reviewing the past year, Mr Moorey said the church officers had managed the services very well in the absence of ...

  • Warning of higher expenditure, 1960

    Although he was presenting a statement of accounts with a balance of £148 7s 7d, Mr A W Moorey (hon. ...

  • Inadequate church heating, 1961

    The Rev. Bell has done some extensive research into new methods of heating the church, which badly requires automatic heating ...

  • Growing the church, 1966

    The Rector, in his report, said that during the year the number of communicants had more than doubled; Evensong attendances ...

  • Upward surge in Church life, 1966

    A sustained upward surge in the church life of St John’s, Lewes, following the end of several years plurality with ...
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