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THE CATHEDRAL ORGAN APPEAL
Patron: HRH The Prince of Wales
Progress Report - Eastertide 2008
The Appeal, which was launched
at the service last July, has now been running for 9 months.
The Appeal Committee has met
regularly every Tuesday for two hours to plan and monitor the Appeal. In
addition, much extra work is undertaken by Committee members in their own
time.
At the general meeting in
January, we were able to give you an idea of how things were progressing -
96 of our Parishioners came along that night. We now feel that the time
is right for us to report to everyone as to how we are getting on - only 6
months from when we start paying the organ builders £65,758 every month
every month until 2010!
We have raised £410,000 made up as follows:-
| |
£ |
|
Anonymous gift for deposit |
50,000 |
|
Insurance claim
|
64,000 |
|
Weston Corporation |
50,000 |
|
Friends of the Cathedral
|
50,000 |
|
Gibson Trust |
5,000 |
|
“One off” donations |
138,910 |
|
Phased donations by monthly DD/GWADD |
28,671 |
|
Investment interest |
8,995 |
|
Fund raising activities |
14,463 |
| |
|
| |
410,039 |
£92,000 of this fund has been
spent to date - £61,611 of which was the deposit paid to the Organ
builders: the balance being fees, postages and printing and other costs
associated with the launch, the Faculty application and the Appeal. This
leaves us with £318,000 in hand.
We are finding it very difficult
to attract the level of support we need for this Project from outside
sources i.e. businesses, grant making funds etc. It is our opinion, backed
up by the experience of the St David’s Cathedral project, that the
majority of the money will have to come from within our own family i.e. our
congregations.
Despite the generosity of many,
which has provided £231,000 of the money raised to date, we do not feel
that we have the whole-hearted support of all our parishioners.
If we look at general giving,
the £139,000 was contributed by 124 people, donating more than £50.
It is estimated that 100 contributors are members of our congregations. 13
people have signed up to the “Sponsor an organ part” scheme. The phased
donations are by 30 people.
The Dean suggested at the
January meeting, that if all members of our congregations committed to a
fairly modest amount per week (gift aided) over the next two to three
years, we would be well on the way to meeting our target.
For example:- £5 per week equals
£260 each year.
For a taxpayer this could add
another £72 to the Fund
Over 3 years - the length of time it will take to build the Organ, this
amounts to £996.
During the course of each week we have over 400 people attending services.
If each of the 400 were to give £5 per week for the next 3 years this
would raise £398,000.
We will continue to seek funding
wherever this may be found. For example, we are now targeting
businesses in Cardiff, we have just had the Howells Schools concerts, and
we have the Llandaff Festival and the 2010 Flower Festival to come; also
general fund raising events by Cathedral groups and individuals will
continue. Apart from the money raised, these help to keep the
project alive and “in the public eye”.
We do however suggest, that the
time has come for everyone to throw their weight wholeheartedly behind the
major effort which will be needed if we are to succeed.
Jeffrey Morgan
Alan Williams
CHAIRMAN TREASURER
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