Explore: Sustentation Fund

and the wealth of the emerging middle class. The church created a Sustentation Fund, the brainchild of Thomas Chalmers, to which congregations contributed

for a "drip arrester". Bowdich was a donor to The Animals' Friend Sustentation Fund. She was also a member of the Hampstead Society for the Protection

However, the revenue of the church gradually increased; in 1901, the sustentation fund was able to support only 75 ministers, but by 1903 it maintained 167

Church of Scotland, with Chalmers as moderator. He had prepared a sustentation fund scheme for the support of the seceding ministers. In 1844, Chalmers

the manse fund, ;£250 towards extinguishing debt on Free Church buildings, along with notable yearly subscriptions to the Sustentation Fund in the various

connected with the congregation he took the deepest interest. The Sustentation Fund especially was financially supported, and he made the Deacons' Courts

Bordesley vicarage. In this period of hardship, the Church Union's Sustentation Fund supported Fr. Enraght and his family. During Fr. Enraght and Dorothea's

render much effective service. He gave careful thought to the general Sustentation Fund and other financial departments of the Church. He authored several

from Glasgow University. From 1890 to 1900 he was Convenor of the Sustentation Fund, pressing for a minimum stipend of 200 shillings per year for all

congregation turned to the need for their own minister, starting a Sustentation Fund in the event of Gore district becoming a separate charge. The call