welcome from dean Anthony
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For centuries Portsmouth Cathedral has been a beacon for people on land and at sea, helping them navigate the passage of time with faith and confidence in God. It is a building of simple, enduring beauty and a vibrant, inclusive, and lively community which has a positive impact on the common good in our parish, as well as the welcome City and Diocese of Portsmouth. Our Cathedral Vision renews our commitment to be a community always seeking God’s will. It affirms the good thanks of past and present, including the outstanding work of all our volunteers, whilst from dean also seeking to grow and develop through new projects and ways of working. Central to our work and mission is the vital and urgent need to become financially sustainable. The events of the past year have been difficult for us all. Now is the time to come together with Anthony generous hearts to ensure that Portsmouth Cathedral has the funds we need to meet the challenges and opportunities of today and the years to come. We have set ourselves the goal of doubling congregational planned giving over the next five years. This ambitious, but we believe realistic aim, will be central to closing the remaining gap between our income and spending levels. Alongside this, the Cathedral will continue to increase commercial and fundraising income to replace the significant external support we currently receive for some of our lay staff, which is due to expire by 2023. As we head towards our centenary in 2027, we are excited about the future, and invite you to play your part in helping us deliver the wide- ranging work, worship and witness of Portsmouth Cathedral.
The Very Reverend Dr. Anthony Cane Dean of Portsmouth
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Our Vision for Portsmouth Cathedral
For over 800 years there has been a place of worship dedicated to St Thomas of Canterbury on the site where Portsmouth Cathedral stands. Throughout our history as a chapel, parish church and now parish church Cathedral, our building has been a place of welcome, inspiration and encounter with the living God. We have a long and proud history of serving our local communities across our parish, the city, and the Diocese of Portsmouth.
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As we look to the future and the centenary of becoming a Cathedral in 2027, we have prayed and refl ected on how Portsmouth Cathedral can faithfully fulfi l our calling to serve God and those around us.
Our vision, which will guide all our work for the coming years, is to be:
“Portsmouth Cathedral: A beacon and safe haven, anchored in jesus Christ”
How have we developed this vision?
Dean Anthony and a group of clergy, staff and lay members of the Cathedral community have been working on the vision for over a year, supported with advice from an external consultant provided by the Church of England. We shared a draft version with the Cathedral community in February and March 2020 to hear your views. Thank you to everyone who took part, your feedback has been invaluable in refi ning our plans. Inevitably, work on the vision has been slowed down by the Covid-19 pandemic. With the gradual easing of restrictions, we are now able to focus on the vision in earnest.
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Finances and Sustainability Diocese and Community Growing and Learning Building and Heritage
Partnerships & Engagement
Worship and Music
Our strategic objectives will guide our work over the next six years, leading up to our 2027 centenary. Over the next few pages, we invite you to learn more about some of our new projects and those in development…
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#Pompey Sundays
We are passionate about drawing more people to God and growing our church community.
Our new informal #PompeySundays more young people and families from our service, inspired by café-church, will local area, as well as those who may be blend contemporary worship styles, new to church or returning after a break. accessible teaching and a warm The new service will be in addition to welcome to all. the 8:00am Book of Common Prayer and It will take place at 9:30am weekly on 11:00am Choral Eucharist. Sunday in the Cathedral, but has already We will continue to nurture our choirs started on-line, featuring interviews with and choral worship, alongside increasing special guests, readings, prayers, and the range and number of those attending teaching. We especially want to attract services at the Cathedral.
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Pop Up Cathedral
Pop-Up Cathedral is our innovative new engagement project aimed at increasing participation with schools across the Diocese of Portsmouth.
Conceived and developed by our Liss Junior and Infant Schools, taking part Learning team, the project takes our in a range of creative learning activities popular workshops into the school within our marquee designed to mimic playground making it an ideal engagement the Cathedral. opportunity for schools who are further Rolling-out our Pop-Up Cathedral was away from Portsmouth Cathedral or put on pause during the pandemic. who cannot afford the costs of coach Securing additional income is essential hire for a visit. for us to properly launch the Pop-Up Students were thrilled to visit the Cathedral this year, broadening the reach Pop-Up Cathedral, which was trialled at of our learning and participation work.
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Caring for God’s creation is a vital part of our Christian calling, and one of the greatest challenges facing our Eco generation. Portsmouth Cathedral is committed to becoming carbon neutral by 2030 and Church ensuring that everything we do from worship to outreach is sustainable and responsible, safeguarding God’s earth for future generations. We have already made good progress. We generate some of our own energy from solar panels and are the first cathedral in the world to install a fuel cell. We have reduced our energy usage by upgrading to LED lighting and modernising the heating systems in Cathedral House. The Cathedral also participates in the FairTrade scheme. Our work has been recognised by the national EcoChurch project, with the cathedral being awarded with a Bronze award. We now want to improve our care for creation further and will actively work to achieve EcoChurch Silver status and then Gold status. This will involve managing our buildings and grounds in an even more environmentally friendly way, more teaching, prayer and community action around care for creation, and encouraging our Cathedral community to adopt more environmentally friendly lifestyles.
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Pilgrims and visitors
Portsmouth Cathedral has always offered a warm welcome to pilgrims and visitors alike.
However, our visitor numbers are on our website will encourage more modest compared to other Cathedrals pilgrims and visitors to come. and heritage attractions locally, with only To complement our existing Guides and 20,000 people visiting the Cathedral in Welcomers, a new heritage app will offer 2019. The city of Portsmouth attracts self-guided tours of the Cathedral. over 9 million visitors annually giving us immense opportunity to welcome more There will be special versions of the people in the future. tour for families and methods to interact with content for those who do not have We will significantly increase the number smartphones. of pilgrims and visitors we welcome through improved marketing and Over the coming years we will need to enhancing the already good experience invest more of our own limited resources of visiting the Cathedral. to grow the number of visitors and pilgrims through more events and activites, Thanks to external pandemic-relief increased engagement across the Diocese, funding from the Government, some of and more sophisticated marketing. this work is already underway. A new virtual tour of Portsmouth Cathedral
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Cathedral shop
Developing our Cathedral shop and growing retail revenue is an important part of our wider vision and mission.
With Government funding, we have For the fi rst time, we have launched an invested in developing our shop to online shop, and will be investing some become more profi table. of our own fi nancial resources into refreshed display and furnishings to help We are introducing new ranges of improve product merchandising and merchandise bespoke to the Cathedral, customer experience. drawing upon on our heritage and architecture. This includes the ‘Cathedral Over the coming years it will be Collection’ featuring gifts, jewellery and essential for us to continue investing in our very own Cathedral gin. our Cathedral shop, ensuring we meet customer demand and ongoing retail The shop will also stock products from trends to continue growing retail income. ethical businesses and local producers, alongside more religious books and gifts for those wishing to explore faith.
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Planning for our centenary
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Portsmouth Cathedral celebrates 100 years of being a Cathedral in 2027, which also marks the centenary of Portsmouth becoming a city. We look forward to celebrating this landmark milestone with old and new members of the Cathedral community and the wider city. As well as special programmes of events and services, we will also plan any physical changes we need to make to our buildings and grounds to ensure they support the mission of Portsmouth Cathedral over the next 100 years.
Your support is essential to making our vision happen. Please consider increasing your monthly donation or starting a new contribution at portsmouthcathedral.org.uk/support
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Congregational planned giving, £88,764 Funding gap, £109,062
Miscellaneous (VAT rebate, statutory fees, energy fuel cell etc), £57,470
Investment income, £35,000
Fundraising, £266,150
Commercial (retail, events and hires, rental), £125,250
Church Commissioners and Diocesan grant, £153,794
Note: fi gures do not include major fabric projects.
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There are several income You will see there is a major gap in our income streams that together fund our because we do not raise enough money every work and mission. The most year to meet the costs of our mission and work. significant are: In recent years, this gap (also called financial Congregational planned giving deficit) has been plugged by the Cathedral – the regular financial support drawing down on our savings (also called our of our Cathedral community. reserves). This is an unsustainable way to run the Cathedral. Our savings are intended to help Fundraising – from grant-giving us pay for major fabric works to the Cathedral trusts and donations from building in the future. Instead, we are using them individuals to support various for our day-to-day costs. aspects of our mission. The chart below shows that we have radically Church Commissioners – we reduced the funding gap in recent years. But it will receive a significant grant from double again by 2023 due to external funding for the central church every year key lay staff finishing. in recognition of the fact that Portsmouth Cathedral is a smaller cathedral with fewer Annual funding gap £600,000 resources than others. £500,000
Commercial – income from £400,000 trading such as the shop and £300,000 venue hire. £200,000
£100,000
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We need to increase income to plug this current and future gap.
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We need to spend at least 48% of our budget Parish Share, £85,174 Ministry, £97,714 each year simply to be able to open the building safely. This includes things like insurance, Core organisation costs utilities and clergy (retail, IT, printing, governance, HR etc), housing. £101,652 In response to the Music, £107,682 Covid-19 pandemic and to help us close the gap between our income
and spending, we have Learning and cut day-to-day Cathedral Engagement, spending by 40%. £9,680 This has included redundancies, staff posts Management and not recruited for, and administration staff, cuts to departmental £142,168 budgets across all areas of the organisation. Buildings (conservation, maintenance, utilities, insurance, cleaning), £166,145
Fundraising and marketing, £125,275
portsmouthcathedral.org.uk/generosity oUR FinAnCeS 17 Funding the Cathedral vision our vision, and all the projects we featured earlier, will only be possible if we increase income and keep our day-to-day spending low. Thanks to a Government grant, we have been working with an Parish Share, £85,174 Ministry, £97,714 external consultancy for six-months to develop the our team’s existing plans into a comprehensive fi nancial plan to do this. This will include:
Core organisation costs � Growing the number of visitors substantially through better (retail, IT, printing, marketing and more events and things for people to do at the governance, HR etc), £101,652 Cathedral. An indirect benefi t of this is greater visitor donations Music, £107,682 and shop income. � Increasing income from our shop. Thanks to Government support we recently launched an online shop with lots of new merchandise that is bespoke to the Cathedral, complementing
Learning and our already existing top-selling products. Engagement, £9,680 � Making the most of our buildings, whether through more events hire or by ensuring that the limited properties we own and rent out are run commercially.
Management and � Increasing our fundraising income, for example through administration staff, £142,168 promoting legacies and encouraging individuals to support key projects.
Buildings (conservation, � Keeping spending low whilst investing our limited income to maintenance, utilities, grow the revenue streams described above. insurance, cleaning), £166,145 The fi nancial support of our Cathedral
Fundraising and community is the fi nal, vital pillar. marketing, £125,275
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Frequently asked questions
We want to take the opportunity to respond to some of the most common questions we hear about the Cathedral fi nances.
The Cathedral Choir costs lots of money
Our Cathedral Choirs and Music Department have a much lower annual spend than most other Cathedrals (by hundreds of thousands of pounds in some cases). They are particularly good value-for-money when you consider that each year we train over 50 choristers (far more than most Cathedrals), 6 Choral Scholars and 1 organ scholar, and provide very valuable employment for local professional singers. The Music Department also works with over 1,000 school children a year through our singing outreach project, Cathedral Sing. Choir tours and other trips and treats are not paid for by the Cathedral but by fundraising events held by the Portsmouth Cathedral Choir Association.
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The Cathedral pays the stipends Portsmouth Cathedral has a of the Cathedral clergy. small congregation The stipends of Dean Anthony, Canon compared to others, why are Kathryn and Canon Jo are paid for by you asking us to give more. the central church, and the stipends of Congregational giving per person Canon Nick and Canon Anthony are paid at Portsmouth Cathedral is 60% of for by the Diocese. These costs do not the average for other parish church even show in our income and spending. Cathedrals. This includes other Cathedrals will similar to demographics This is a Cathedral, surely we to Portsmouth. have all the resources we need already. My donation will not make a Portsmouth Cathedral has one of the difference. smallest staff teams of any Cathedral in the country. Unlike many Cathedrals Every donation is valued and makes a we do not have an extensive property difference to our work and mission. portfolio providing rental income, or a circle of wealthy individuals supporting our work. Finally, we know the Portsmouth Cathedral has not always been perceived to steward our finances well. We are The Cathedral has always working very hard to use our resources managed to get by, wisely and to be much more transparent we don’t need to worry about it. and accountable, so that you can be confident that when you support us, your The Cathedral has only managed to gift will be used wisely. stay afloat in recent years thanks to the generosity of the Groves legacy. If We have reduced the annual funding gap we cannot grow income enough, the from £500,000 in 2018 to a projected Cathedral is in danger of ceasing to be £109,000 this year. financially viable within the next five years.
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A Call to Generosity
‘The point is this: the one who sows your support is vital to enable sparingly will also reap sparingly, Portsmouth Cathedral to and the one who sows bountifully achieve the work and mission will also reap bountifully. Each of you must give as you have made set out in our Cathedral Vision. up your mind, not reluctantly or Last year, congregational planned giving under compulsion, for God loves a totalled £88,500. This is an increase of cheerful giver. And God is able to 14% compared with 2019 and we are so provide you with every blessing in grateful to everyone who has started or abundance, so that by always having increased their giving over the last year enough of everything, you may share abundantly in every good work.’ We are now asking each member of our Cathedral community to consider 2 Corinthians 9:6-8 doing the same.
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The Church of England encourages Christians to follow the Biblical principal of tithing and to give away 10% of their income – 5% to their church and 5% to other charitable organisations. We believe that giving is a joyful calling through which we can make a difference in the world and fi nancially support the building of the Kingdom of Heaven on earth.
‘ “But who am I, and what is my people, that we should be able to make this freewill offering? For all things come from you, and of your own have we given you” ’ 1 Chronicles 29:11
We give out of love for our families, our friends, our neighbours near and far, and the whole of creation. Through fi nancial giving, we come to understand more deeply the inestimable gifts we have received from God, and enter into a deeper relationship of gratitude with our Creator. Finally, we give trusting in the knowledge that God will provide for us, come what may. We know that everyone has different fi nancial circumstances. Your value to God and as a member of our Cathedral community will never be affected by your ability to give fi nancially. Nevertheless, we ask that you prayerfully consider your fi nancial support of Portsmouth Cathedral.
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Every gift even a modest increase in giving from a large proportion matters of the Cathedral community will make a huge difference to our work and mission. � If half of the electoral roll were to increase their giving by £3 a week, the cost of a cup of coffee, we would raise an additional £20,000 per year. � If three quarters of the electoral roll were to increase their giving by £5 a week, the cost of a glass of wine or a sandwich, we would raise an additional £50,000 per year. � If every member of the electoral roll were to increase their giving by £10 a week, the cost of a trip to the cinema or lunch with a friend, we would raise an additional £130,000 per year. Portsmouth Cathedral’s income from planned giving is amongst the lowest of all Cathedrals, even when accounting for the size of congregation. Please help us to change this.
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Ways to Give
every gift we receive is treasured and used wisely increasing you current in support of our work Regular Gift and mission. Thank you. if you give via the Parish Giving Scheme Setting up a new Regular Gift Call the Parish Giving Scheme on 0333 You can set up a new, regular gift 002 1271. Lines are open Monday-Friday by direct-debit easily and securely from 9am-5pm. on our website... portsmouthcathedral.org.uk/support It would be helpful to have your Parish Giving Scheme ID on hand, but this is not We encourage you to choose essential. Portsmouth Cathedral’s Parish to direct your gift ‘to where it is Code is 290629001. most needed’ as this will give us the greatest fl exibility to use your if you give via Standing order support for our most pressing needs. You will need to change your standing Please do complete the online Gift order yourself directly with your bank. Aid declaration if you are eligible. This can be done online or in your local When you have made your gift, branch. please complete the enclosed pledge form and return it to the Cathedral if you give via planned envelopes by 13 may so we can dedicate all Simply change the amount of cash you our gifts in the morning services on donate. The planned envelope scheme is Sunday 16 may (or bring your form not open to new members. to the service).
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Major Gifts Gifts in Wills If you would like to go beyond your Legacies of every size make a huge regular giving and make a significant gift difference to the future of Portsmouth to Portsmouth Cathedral, you are now Cathedral. able to direct this to one of two new Including a gift in your Will, after Funds. You are also welcome to make an remembering family and friends, will unrestricted gift that can be used where enable us to continue welcoming it is most needed. everyone without charging entry fees Music and Worship Fund whilst supporting our mission and work. Support the musical and liturgical life of To have a confidential conversation about the Cathedral and enable young people remembering Portsmouth Cathedral in to benefit from singing as a chorister or your Will, contact Sophie Henstridge- choral scholar. Brown using the details below. We know that some people prefer to Buildings and Heritage Fund keep their decision private, but if you Help to conserve our heritage have made the choice to include us in and treasures and make important your will we hope you will let us know investments into our buildings which will so that we can thank you. enable us to more effectively achieve our Vision and Strategy.
Gift Aid If you are a UK taxpayer you can make your donation go even further by adding Gift Aid. For every £1 you donate we are able to claim 25p from the Government. To enable us to claim Gift Aid on a new donation, complete the Gift Aid section when you are making the donation.
To discuss any aspect of supporting of Portsmouth Cathedral, contact our Head of Fundraising and Events, Sophie Henstridge-Brown. [email protected] 023 9289 2964 or visit portsmouthcathedral.org.uk/support
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