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SPCK’s chance to win £1,000
Here at SPCK we are encouraging supporters, authors and partners to nominate us for a chance to win £1,000 as part of specialist insurer Ecclesiastical's “Movement for Good” awards.
It’s quick and easy to nominate SPCK online. Nominations are open from Wednesday 6 May to Sunday 24 May and you can vote for SPCK online at movementforgood.com
Winners will be drawn at random and the more times SPCK is nominated the more chance we have of being selected.
Find out more in this blog post.
Why nominate SPCK?
With all bookshops closed for the time being, this is a challenging time for publishers but we have chosen to respond with generosity and winning this award would enable us to continue being generous. To date we have adjusted our usual approach to permissions fees so that churches, charities and schools will usually be able to use material from our books digitally free of charge including in streamed services. A number of authors have also asked us to make their e-books available free of charge, to help people stuck at home have access to good reading materials.
And despite the challenges of coronavirus and the lockdown we have seen our charitable programmes adapt and increase their output. An award of £1000 could help us continue reprinting and delivering Diffusion books to provide positive activities for those in prison spending 23 hours a day in their cells. Since the lockdown we have already rapidly responded to requests from staff at 60 prisons for a total of 10641 Diffusion Books.
“You are amazing. These books are going to help so much. Thank you. For this and for all the incredible work you are doing. It makes a difference.” Prison Library Service Advisor, Staffordshire, May 2020
Alternatively, an award of £1000 could help create design, produce and edit 10 brand new videos to share stories from SPCK books with parents and teachers home schooling and for the new #faithathome bedtime stories. In times of uncertainty we have heard from teachers and parents that routine activities such as an online reflection/collective act of worship or a bedtime story are proving vital in maintaining a sense of normality.
Thank you so much for these resources you have provided. They are so helpful in these strange times. Head teacher, Kent.
Join us in being generous:
You can vote for SPCK online at movementforgood.com and the key information you need is:
Charity Number: 231144
Charity Name: The Society For Promoting Christian Knowledge
Charity Type: Education and skills
We also invite you to use your social media channels to ask your contacts to vote for SPCK and give our projects the best possible chance of winning #movementforgood
Mark Hews, Group CEO of Ecclesiastical, says: “We’re delighted to announce the launch of Ecclesiastical’s Movement for Good awards for the second year running. The coronavirus is having a major impact on charities and many are facing financial difficulties. Our Movement for Good awards will continue to help charities at a time when they need it most and we know that for many charities, £1,000 can make a real difference.
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