Simple community lunch
Come together as a parish community. Share a simple lunch and raise vital funds for communities living in poverty around the world.
Harvest Family Fast Day was on Friday 4th October. Whether you volunteered, gave, prayed, or all three - a huge thank you to everyone who supported Harvest Family Fast Day 2024! Your support makes all of our work possible.
The next Harvest Family Fast Day will be on Friday 3rd October 2025.
Three ways to pay in your Fast Day collection
Pay in your parish's collection using our online form. Once you have entered your card details and submitted, you will be asked to input your parish details.
Send a signed cheque payable to 'CAFOD' to CAFOD, 55 Westminster Bridge Road, London, SE1 7JB.
Make sure to include your parish details and to mark it for 'Harvest Family Fast Day' so we can send you a proper thank you. Please include any Gift Aid declarations and direct debit forms. You can use the Freepost envelope provided in your Fast Day pack.
Please don't send cash in the post – we don’t want your vital donations to get lost!
Transfer your Family Fast Day collection to the account details below.
Account name: CAFOD
Account number: 11769410
Sort Code: 16-00-30
Bank: Royal Bank of Scotland
Please include your parish details as the payment reference and send an email to dpt@cafod.org.uk to confirm the amount, date of remittance and to mark it for Harvest Family Fast Day.
Don't forget Gift Aid!
If you pay in your collection by BACS transfer or via the CAFOD website, please don’t forget to send in Gift Aid declarations and direct debit forms by post to CAFOD, 55 Westminster Bridge Road, London, SE1 7JB.
New this Fast Day
Try our new virtual envelope which allows you to make your Fast Day donation online and link it to your parish. Share the link cafod.org.uk/envelope in your parish newsletter or on social media so parishioners who no longer carry cash can still make their Fast Day donation.
We also have a new poster featuring a large QR code. Place them by entrances and exits to the church for parishioners to scan and they will be taken to the virtual envelope where they can make their Fast Day donation.
Fast Day resources for your parish
Visit the CAFOD shop to order posters, prayer cards and collection envelopes or you can download resources straight onto your computer below.
Download our Harvest prayer video to share with your parish.
Contactless for CAFOD
Make donating as easy as tapping a card by signing up for a contactless account with CAFOD. Order a card reader device now or give it a try first with the new 'Tap to Pay' function. You can be set up in minutes and start collecting donations straight away using just your phone!
Find out more by visiting our contactless webpage or get in touch with us at contactless@cafod.org.uk for additional questions and support.
Other ways your parish can get involved
Fundraise for a World Gift
Join together with your family or parish to fundraise for a World Gift and help to transform the lives of families experiencing poverty.
Gather Together
Make CAFOD’s Fast Day a reason to get your parish community together this autumn. Build community and show our love for our global family.
Our A-Z of fundraising ideas
Our fundraising ideas include fun and quirky ways to raise money and can be done online, at home, with family and friends, or on your own.
Fundraising tools and advice
CAFOD online shop
Visit our online shop to order fundraising resources like posters, collection boxes and lanyards.
Sponsorship form
Download your form, complete your event and raise those funds for CAFOD!
How to fundraise for us
Follow our handy step-by-step guidance for planning, promoting and hosting your fundraising event.
How to pay in your fundraising
Advice on how to send us the donations you worked so hard to raise using our website, or by post, phone or bank transfer.