Here to help
We want to help make sure your place of worship in Scotland can stay open and in use. Please email us at grants@nationalchurchestrust.org to see how we can help. We look forward to hearing from you.
Get Support: Scotland
Welcome
We want to support you to keep your church, chapel or meeting house open, well maintained and in use. On this page you’ll find links to resources and training to help you do this.
Get in touch with us
Thanks to funding from the National Lottery Heritage Fund, we have a dedicated support officer, based in Scotland, who is on hand to help you with advice and training.
How we can help you
Find out more about our grants
Whether you are looking to repair your roof, install a kitchen or accessible toilets, clear asbestos or simply need help undertaking regular essential maintenance to your building, we offer a range of grants to suit the size and needs of your project. We also have a special Cherish grant – created especially to help Scottish places of worship.
Maintenance and project advice
From how to develop and manage a church building project, to keeping your church in good condition by regular maintenance, you can find out about the key things you need to do to look after your church building.
Tourism support
Many churches, chapels and meeting houses were built to be at the heart of their communities; to be busy and used by all. There are many ways to ensure that this is still the case. Discover how to create the perfect welcome, tell your story and more.
Free event: Building Sustainable Futures for Scottish Churches
Join us on Friday 1 November at the wonderful Paisley Abbey to chat with funders and advisers all under one roof. They are there to help support all aspects of the work within your church building, whether it is from community, heritage, faith, tourism, or climate action sectors. Book your free ticket here.
What's on?
Our team runs events and training to help with everything from fundraising and tourism support to how to apply for a grant. You can also view the full list of training events that the National Churches Trust will be running this year.
Online: Making the Most of Your Website
Taking place from 2-3pm on Tuesday 29 October. As more and more elements of our daily lives move online, it makes sense that your website is the first place potential members, worshippers, volunteers, supporters, visitors or event attendees look to find out more information about your church.
In person: Building Sustainable Futures for Scottish Churches
Join us at the wonderful Paisley Abbey on Friday 1 November to chat with funders and advisers all under one roof. They are there to help support all aspects of the work within your church building, whether it is from community, heritage, faith, tourism, or climate action sectors.
Online: Enterprise, earning your own income
Join us on Tuesday 19 November from 2-3pm. This session will explore ways of diversifying income sources whilst supporting the needs of communities. How can we make the most of the opportunities that could be there and do we see them? In a highly competitive funding environment, we cannot always solely rely on grants and donations.
How we're helping places of worship
Find out more about Cherish
Cherish includes training, support, advice and funding for places of worship in Scotland, Wales and North West England (Cumbria, Lancashire and Greater Manchester).
Cherish supports more than 250 churches in first year
Cherish is helping us to target support at key areas where we are at great risk of losing priceless heritage.
They bought a church building – now they have to keep it running
When the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG) church outgrew the buildings, they were renting, they bought an abandoned church. The disused building has been transformed into a thriving community church. And this is just stage one of the journey.
