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The UK's amazing churches are important all year around

Across the UK, churches, chapels and meeting houses are open for you to explore. Please donate today to help ensure our church heritage remains open and in use.

Help save the UK's churches for the future
Totnes St Mary Church in Devon
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As the heritage crisis persists, find out what’s being done to help keep churches open

Heritage is at risk like never before in the UK. But together, we are able to make a difference to churches, chapels and meeting houses – keeping them open and in use and protecting them for the future. In our latest round of grants, 53 places of worship now have hope for the future – thanks to you.

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Our impact in numbers

  • Over 2000 Churches and chapels

    We've helped keep open, in good repair and supporting local people since 2007.

  • £ 2.8 million awarded in 2024

    To churches and chapels for urgent repairs, new facilities and essential maintenance.

  • 7 Churches and chapels

    Removed from the Heritage at Risk Register in 2024 with the support of our grants.

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David Castor

Covent Garden Churches Walking Tour

Join us on Wednesday 12 March 2025 to discover the rich history of theatre and music at Covent Garden’s historic churches. You will explore Corpus Christi Maiden Lane, St Paul Covent Garden and St Martin-in-the-Fields churches with a guided tour at each.

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Philip Pankhurst

England’s church heritage ‘danger zones’ revealed

New data reveals England’s church heritage ‘danger zones’ and shows the number of churches at risk in MP’s constituencies. Find out how many church, chapels, cathedrals and meeting houses are at risk in your constituency and what you can do to save them.

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Read about The House of Good: Health

Our The House of Good: Health research show that the UK’s churches take an immense amount of pressure off the NHS and provide essential support services that it would cost an extra £8.4 billion a year to deliver. Find out how.

Church of the Week

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Come to Good, Cornwall

Completed in 1710, the Come to Good Meeting House near Truro, Cornwall, is one of the oldest Quaker places of worship in the UK. In the late 1600s, Cornwall’s Quakers were facing repression and imprisonment. The Friends were hounded out of their meeting houses and many Cornish Quakers were persecuted and incarcerated. George Fox, the founder of the Quakers, came to Cornwall in 1656. After the Toleration Act of 1689 the local group group felt safe to start work on a simple cob and thatch house, which opened in 1710 and can still be visited every day of the year. However, the picturesque thatched roof is urgently in need of repairs, and the Come to Good Meeting House was added to the Historic England Heritage at Risk register last year. Luckily, we were able to award £35,000 in our latest rounds of grants to help repair the roof, ensuring this remarkable building stays in use for years to come.

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Donate now to help churches stay open and in good repair

There is no bigger issue facing the UK’s heritage than the future of its churches. Help us in our mission to keep churches open and in use for generations to come.

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