FacilEvents for churches
Event ticketing and online giving for UK churches
Sell tickets for festivals, retreats, camps and conferences on your church’s own branded site — with QR check-in, Wallet tickets, a box office and food vouchers for the event day, in up to five languages. And receive tithes and offerings with UK Gift Aid capture at 0%, always free. Money goes straight to the church’s own account.
Built from a real church festival
We built FacilEvents for a community festival in Manchester that had outgrown its bank-transfer spreadsheet — hundreds of tickets, QR entry and a food counter run from volunteers’ phones. Everything below exists because a real church needed it.
Festivals, retreats and conferences
Each event gets its own page on your church’s branded site — your name, colours and domain. Tickets sell online, and the money arrives in the church’s own Stripe account at the moment of each sale.
Reserved seating for conferences
Conference in a hall or auditorium? Build the room once — rows, sections, round tables, accessible seats — and let people pick their seats on an interactive map, with “seats together” for families. Enabled on request, paid by card through Stripe (not at the box office yet).
Payment plans for retreats and camps
Let families pay a retreat or camp in monthly card instalments. The instalments stop automatically, the plan is paid off before the event, and the QR ticket arrives once it is fully paid.
Youth camps: forms and consents
One ticket per person, with attendee forms built for youth work: date of birth, guardian, emergency contact, medical, dietary and accessibility needs, plus photo and parental consents. Ask only what the camp genuinely needs — your church is responsible for what it collects.
From flyer to event page in a minute
Upload a photo or PDF of your flyer (or type one sentence) and the event form fills itself in. Then translate everything into your site’s languages with one click. Always check the result before publishing.
The door, run by volunteers — and tickets in Wallet
Every ticket is a QR code, also available for Apple Wallet and Google Wallet. Several volunteers scan in parallel with their own phones — duplicates refused automatically, with a short-code fallback for the person whose phone died.
Food counter without paper tickets
Pastel, cachorro-quente, drinks: buyers’ QR codes carry their food items, the counter scans and taps deliver. Nothing double-served, and the kitchen sees only the kitchen screen.
Giving with UK Gift Aid — always free
A giving page for tithes and offerings with the Gift Aid declaration captured at the moment of giving, and an HMRC-ready export for your claim — every £1 from an eligible UK taxpayer can become £1.25. FacilEvents provides the collection tools; the charity remains responsible for determining eligibility and submitting claims to HMRC. This module costs 0% — always.
Up to five languages, for every community
Built for congregations that speak more than one language — Brazilian and Portuguese-speaking communities in the UK, and Spanish, Italian or French speakers too. Your public site and the admin can use up to five languages (English, Portuguese, Spanish, Italian, French), and every ticket email follows the buyer’s language.
Reports your treasurer will like
Sales, attendance and giving in one place, with exports. Because payments go through the church’s own account, reconciliation is reading your own statement — not chasing a platform payout.
Frequently asked questions
Is the giving module really free?
Yes — 0% fee, always, on tithes and offerings. Event tickets are free for churches too: £0/month and 0% FacilEvents fee, and attendees can add an optional contribution to FacilEvents at checkout. We believe giving is not a product.
How does the Gift Aid capture work?
When someone gives online, they tick the Gift Aid declaration and their details are stored with the gift. You export an HMRC-ready file from the admin for your claim — no retyping, no lost declarations. FacilEvents provides the administrative tools only: the charity remains responsible for determining eligibility and for its claims to HMRC.
Where does the money go?
Directly into the church’s own Stripe account, at the moment of each sale or gift. FacilEvents never receives or holds the money.
Can people still pay cash at the door?
Yes. The box office records cash and card sales for tickets and food, so door sales land in the same reports as online sales.
We are a small church with no tech team — is this for us?
That is exactly who it is for. Register, connect your payment account, publish your first event — if you can use WhatsApp, you can run this. Volunteers see only the screen for their role.
Your church’s events site, live this week
Free for organisers, no card needed. Connect your own Stripe account and publish your first event.
Free for organisers. Standard Stripe processing applies; attendees can add an optional contribution to FacilEvents.
Last updated: 10 October 2026