Pancakes & Prayer aims higher for Lent 2026

Providing food and water for 7,300 young people in South Sudan The Pancakes & Prayer Lent Campaign is back for 2026!  Last year, Bishops’ Appeal and the Church of Ireland Youth Department (CIYD) partnered with Fields of Life and with youth groups across Ireland, prayed, and fundraised an incredible £8,300/€9,500.   You supported 3,926 young people in…

A cityscape in Brazil, where the Safe House project gives girls new hope for the future.  Photo credit: SAMS Ireland.

Gingerbread & Generosity raises over £4,000 (€4,700) to help people in need in South America

The Church of Ireland’s Bishops’ Appeal for World Aid and Development and the Board for Ministry with Children and Families are delighted to announce that £4,164 (equivalent to €4,796) has been raised through their Advent fundraising campaign – Generosity & Gingerbread – to help SAMS Ireland in its work to make life better for homeless people in Chile…

Houses of Hope – Gingerbread and Generosity Advent 2025

  This Advent and Christmas season we invite you to join “Gingerbread and Generosity: Houses of Hope”, a new seasonal initiative created in partnership with SAMS Ireland, the Bishops’ Appeal, and the Board for Ministry with Children and Families (BCFM). During the Advent and Christmas season, we are looking forward to celebrating the birth of…

New appeal seeks to bring hope through aid in the Middle East

The Church of Ireland is today (Monday, 21st October) launching a fresh appeal to help to provide humanitarian aid for people in need across the Middle East through Bishops’ Appeal, its world aid and development programme. All parishes in the Church of Ireland are being encouraged to support this initiative, with a focused time of…