This year, the National Church Awards will be celebrating the dedication, care and impact of the people who care for the UK’s wonderful church buildings and who share them with others.
Church buildings need our support like never before, with many facing closure owing in part to the high costs of repairs. In our recent round of grants, we were delighted to award grants to 58 churches – enabling them to stay open and in good repair. This vital funding will go towards keeping these wonderful buildings in use for generations to come, saving irreplaceable heritage and ensuring vital community services can continue to help the most vulnerable people.
Read more about the churches you've helped to saveWe've helped keep open, in good repair and supporting local people since 2007.
To churches and chapels for urgent repairs, new facilities such as loos and kitchens and essential maintenance.
Removed from the Heritage at Risk Register in 2023 with the support of our grants.
A church in Northern Ireland has been designated a World Heritage Site by UNESCO. This is a good news story for tourism in Northern Ireland. But should other UK churches follow this example to help attract even more visitors to these important buildings?
Churches offer some of the most magnificent architectural locations in the UK. From spectacular backdrops in Hollywood movies to everyday life events in favourite soap operas and from the grandest cathedral to the humblest parish church, they are as indispensable on screen as they are in reality.
A few years on from receiving their Friends Award, we get an update from St Michael’s Church in Llanfihangel y Creuddyn, Wales, about how the grant from the award enabled the damp and dangerous church tower to be fully restored.
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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