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Damaris Development Fund

It is easy to donate online using our secure credit card facility

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Damaris is a charity registered in the UK, number 1082449 (you can view the charity's details and accounts on the Charity Commission website).

Damaris is constantly developing a wide range of new resources - and then providing them for its members and others. The Damaris Development Fund is crucial to this development and provision of new resources. It has no capital, and relies totally upon donations and grants from Damaris supporters.

This fund provides the 'seed-funds' necessary to develop new projects and resources and to sustain them until they can be wholly supported through the money they generate from sales. (To find out more about how new projects and resources are developed and sustained see our business model)

Here are a few needs that we are seeking to meet through donations to the development fund:

Pollard on Film
Pollard on Film (see www.pollardonfilm.com) is a new video resource for use in school assemblies, outreach events and church services. Each video looks at the issues raised by a current feature film and invites people to explore what the Bible says about them. We are really encouraged by the response to this resource - and how people are keen to use this in schools and churches. But we are also beginning to discover how expensive it is to create up-to-date video like this! Your gift would make a huge difference to our ability to provide this new outreach resource.
Deovox: The Word in your ear

Deovox (see www.deovox.com) is different from most Damaris resources - it is designed for Christians rather than non-Christians. But so many young Christians really need this! How many Christians will readily turn on the TV or go out to a movie - but don't read the Bible on a daily basis! If we don't bring this generation back to the Bible what does the future hold for the church? Deovox provides regular, sequential, devotional Bible study - linking the message of the Bible to the issues of the day - and delivered to the user's i-pod or mobile phone. We are hugely encouraged by the response of potential users - and other organisations such as Bible Society and Evangelical Alliance who are encouraging us to create this unique resource to call Christians back to the Bible. But, it is expensive! So, your gift would make a huge difference to our ability to provide this new resource.

School Conferences

Building upon our established reputation for school conferences, and our experience in training others to present them (particularly our success with our President For A Day Experience) we plan to reshape Nick Pollard's highly popular conference "Ethics in an age of science" into a format that can be presented by people without Nick's particular knowledge and skills set - and then to train people to present it.

Voice Team

The Damaris Voice Team is very successful in speaking out in Radio, TV and Newspapers.  However, we often find ourselves in a difficult dilemma.  Requests come to the Damaris office for someone to speak or debate on an issue on which we have team members with real expertise - and of course we always want to accept.  But we often cannot afford to because it means taking someone away from a paid job within Damaris (such as providing content for one of our subscription websites) to do a radio/TV show for which we are very rarely paid (you don't easily get money for presenting a Christian point-of-view in the media!)

 

How to support the Damaris Development Fund

  • Send a cheque, made payable to "Damaris" to the office (if you send a cheque please specify that this is for The Damaris Development Fund)
     
  • Donate online using our secure credit card facility (if you donate online you will receive an email acknowledging the donation - please reply to that email telling us that this donation is for The Damaris Development Fund)
  • Transfer money directly into the Damaris Trust Development Account contact us and we will give you the details.
  • To set up a standing order into the Damaris Trust Development Account email donations@damaris.org and we will email you a standing order form to fill in.

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