{"id":9456,"date":"2024-02-07T17:37:21","date_gmt":"2024-02-07T07:37:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=9456"},"modified":"2024-02-07T17:37:21","modified_gmt":"2024-02-07T07:37:21","slug":"railway-mission-appeals-for-support-through-payroll-giving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=9456","title":{"rendered":"Railway Mission appeals for support through Payroll Giving"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This Payroll Giving Month, <a href=\"https:\/\/railwaymission.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Railway Mission<\/a> is asking people to support the vital work carried out by its chaplaincy team by setting up a regular donation through their salaries. <\/p>\n<p>With <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/payroll-giving\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Payroll Giving<\/a>, donations to Railway Mission are taken from supporters\u2019 pay on a monthly basis, and before income tax is deducted. This means that the charity receives more money at no extra cost to the giver, and is simple to set up.<\/p>\n<p>Donations help the charity\u2019s chaplains to offer face-to-face, year-round support, especially during an individual\u2019s time of loneliness, stress, depression, bereavement or illness.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEvery year, more and more individuals rely on our chaplaincy team for pastoral support, often in times of extreme personal distress,\u201d explained Liam Johnston, Railway Mission Executive Director.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe generous support of our donors and fundraisers means our chaplains are able to offer a listening ear, a friendly chat, a shoulder to cry on, or a word of prayer to anyone who needs it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDonations from regular giving means we have guaranteed money coming in every month to continue to provide Railway Mission\u2019s services and help us plan for the future.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPayroll giving enables you to help fund our chaplaincy team to support the railway family navigate life\u2019s journey every time you are paid.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor example, if you are a standard rate tax payer, donating \u00a310 a month only costs you \u00a38 because payroll giving donations are deducted before tax, so we receive more money at no extra cost to you.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s simple \u2013 Railway Mission receives a regular income and because your donation is tax-free it goes further and costs you less.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>First Group and Arriva employees can easily set up a payroll giving monthly donation via the Railway Mission website donate page. The page also has a link to email Network Rail\u2019s Charity Department which can help their staff with payroll giving.<\/p>\n<p>Employees of other rail companies and operators should contact their employer directly.<\/p>\n<p>Railway Mission is a national charity which provides a regionally-based chaplaincy service aiming to be an impartial \u2018friend\u2019 to those who work on the railway. Regardless of faith, gender, sexual orientation or position in the industry, chaplains offer face-to-face year-round support, especially during an individual\u2019s time of loneliness, stress, depression, bereavement or illness.<\/p>\n<p>A Christian faith-based charity, Railway Mission offers pastoral care to the entire railway community and members of the public affected by rail operations.<\/p>\n<p>For more information about Railway Mission and its work visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.railwaymission.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.railwaymission.org<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This Payroll Giving Month, Railway Mission is asking people to support the vital work carried out by its chaplaincy team by setting up a regular [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":9457,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[7,11],"class_list":["post-9456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rail-news","tag-transport","tag-usa"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9456\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}