Partner Churches
The Partner Churches scheme is an invitation to participate in the growing ministry of Resound Worship
We believe that to work effectively for churches we need to work with churches. So we're seeking to build on the relationships we have built with churches around the world. We're grateful for regular support we've received in recent years and we've been working to find ways for this support to be reciprocal, so that becoming a Partner Church benefits everyone.
Could your church be THESE THINGS?
What is involved?
To become a Partner Church, we invite a donation of £150+ per year. Primarily, this would be a gift. Your church's way of saying that you value and support the work of Resound Worship in developing new songs and songwriters for the church and that you want to invest in seeing the ministry continue to flourish.
But the partnership does come with benefits. We want to share all our resources with you, in order to resource your worship:
- An Annual Pass to the website - free access to every score, track, chart & video for around 200 songs
- The ability to share your Annual Pass with members of your worship team so everyone can have easy access to the resources.
- Your church listed as a Partner Church on our website, with a link back to your church website*
We would also like to include you in our wider conversations about worship. From time to time we will run surveys or consultations - either online or face-to-face - through which we seek to understand and better serve the needs of real churches, and you will make a valuable contribution to these.
Who might become a Partner Church?
There are various reasons a church might choose to become a partner. For example, you might:
- regularly use Resound Worship songs and recognise the value to your worship
- already hold an Annual Pass and wish to make an extra step of support
- have songwriters among your members who have or could benefit from our ministry
- share our commitment to producing songs of quality and substance, and support the aims and values of our parent charity SHWF
There are no geographical restrictions on becoming a Partner Church, we welcome churches from every location!
How do we sign up?
To start the enrolment process, use the button below to open the which will take youu to the application form. Please note, the form will ask you to confirm you have been authorised by your church to make this commitment.
If you have any questions, please drop us a line.
We grateful that a number of churches wish to make a greater contribution, proportional to their general budget, but we recommend £150 as a starting point.
Your annual gift would be treated as 'unrestricted funds', ie it would go into the general funds of the Song & Hymn Writers Foundation, our parent charity. This is partly because there are 'benefits' to you, so we would have to treat a proportion of it as general trading income; it is also because - as with all charitable organisations - unrestricted funds enable us to plan and do our work most effectively. If you would prefer to 'restrict' your gift, please do contact us.
It will not be possible to Gift Aid partnership gifts because they come from an organisation, even if donated by an individual. If you wish to personally fund your church's partnership, we recommend that you Gift Aid your gift to your church which would then make the partnership donation, rather than doing so on the church's behalf. If you prefer to make an individual donation outside this scheme you can do so here or by contacting us.
The Partner Churches scheme is designed to be an ongoing relationship, but you would be free to withdraw from the scheme at any time, while retaining access benefits through to the end of that partnership year.
*You can, of course, remain anonymous, but listing our Partner Churches is important to us. It lends credibility to what we do, demonstrating that we are working for, and with the support of, real, local churches.