Add a link
Please add a link to your new ExploreChurches page from your existing website or social media, this will help your google rankings as well as ours.
Add your church, chapel or meeting house
Your church is unique.
We would love to encourage people to visit it.
All you need to do is complete our online form.
Fill in our 'add your church' form in Google forms
Below are hints and tips for each question, including word limits on the main sections of descriptive text, to help you make your page engaging and attract more visitors to your church and events and to help them learn about your heritage and stories. We recommend you prepare your content offline and then copy and paste it into the form.
Download the form questions and guidelines. You can use this to prepare your answers and then cut and paste them into the online form.
Next steps
Promote your page
Please help us to promote your page on social media using the hashtag #explorechurches
Send us more
Please click here to email us with more images, video or leaflets / guidebooks for download. Remember that for all images we need you to confirm that you created them, that we can use them online in marketing, and tell us what the credit should be (probably the photographers name).
Add events
Add one off events at your church as and when you organise them, click here to add your events.
Use our images and films
Our projects and partnerships are helping to build a library of stunning images and films that you can use to help us promote them, our activities and your tours.
Request a publicity pack
We can send you a pack with posters and postcards to promote your listing, click here to send us an email.
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Help from us
Contact us
We'd love to hear from you.
Training
very year we run a range of training sessions and courses delivered online or in person. Our sessions cover a wide range of topics, from maintenance to tourism and from grants to marketing.
Online advice & training
We offer some great training sessions. We also work with partners who offer training, advice and support. Here we will try and list as many as we can that have online sessions and videos.
FAQs
Questions about the Explore Churches section of our website?
Can you help us?
With over 40,000 Christian places of worship in the UK, we will always have more to add, and more information to enhance individual church listings. Visitors are interested in churches for a wide variety of reasons and we are keen to meet their needs. We would love to include all churches, chapels and meeting houses that are open for visitors (even if this is only during specific hours) and believe that each and every one has a story to tell.
We are trying to increase the number of visitors to churches (and the income from visitors for churches) and evidence shows that having information in one place benefits both visitors and churches. We would love to work with you and your organisation to encourage the churches you work with to be a part of our work.
Our themed lists are a unique way of promoting churches. They reach out to visitors based on what they are passionate about. That might be sculpture, cream teas, family history, art, walking, history, wildlife or climbing to name a few.
Our trails include walks, cycle rides and scenic drives. They could be long or short in duration. They could be nationally recognised or created locally. Churches could be the main focus or simply visit them as part of the trail.
If you have an idea or know of a trail we should include, please email us at explorechurches@nationalchurchestrust.org
Experiences are exciting and immersive activities that make a great day out. They include exploring fascinating places and hands on activities that make for really memorable visits. We are inviting churches and tourism businesses across the UK to create their own Experiences which we will market to visitors, group travel and the tourism industry.
To find out more, please visit our experiences page