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Money Matters (The Cost) |
| All St Chad's Volunteers are funded in part by their local church (ie their home church), partly by the receiving church or parish and partly by themselves. St Chad's Trust will provide a bursary varying according to circumstances. |
| Excluding the cost of board and lodging, which is generally part of the host church contribution, the total cost, including air-fares, subsistence allowance and other programme expenses, is in the region of £3,600 per volunteer. |
| Volunteers from the Diocese of Lichfield and their home church will be asked to raise up to half this amount, depending on their circumstances. Partner churches overseas contribute according to their means to the costs of the volunteers they send: a minimum contribution will be negotiated on a case-by-case basis. For volunteers coming to the UK from Malaysia, this 'local church contribution was around RM1500. In the UK, sending churches and outgoing volunteers together will be asked to raise a minimum of £1,300. |
| What proportion of this is raised by the volunteer him/herself is subject to negotiation, but one condition of participation in the programme is that the volunteer's local church must own the participant by contributing a substantial part of whatever local contribution is agreed. |
| Volunteers from the Diocese of Lichfield have to pay the full cost of their own insurance. |
| Volunteers from Malaysia to the UK (or their church or diocese) must arrange travel insurance (both ways) and additional cover for up to two weeks after their arrival. From that point onwards their insurance costs in the UK, up to the day of their departure from the Lichfield diocesan area at the end of their placement, will be arranged through the Lichfield World Mission Programme and paid for by St Chad's Trust. |