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Guidelines - Church Restoration Grants
- The church must be an Anglican church within the Church of
England.
- Applications for Church Restoration Grants must be completed
by the PCC.
- The Church must be licensed for worship and not being
considered for closure.
- The grants are for restoration and repair. Eligible repairs
include:
- roof repairs
- tower repairs
- stonework
- church floors
- new heating and lighting*
- new toilets
- adaptations for disabled access
- reordering including kitchen facilities, as long as they
are within the footprint of the church building
- sound systems
- rewiring
- mullions (not glazing)
* The Trustees would like to encourage churches to consider
installing heating systems based on renewable
technologies (for example, air source heat pumps) or
micro generation of electricity. An application for such a
system is likely to be considered for the maximum possible
grant.
- Works that are not eligible include:
- solely professional fees
- works outside the footprint of the church, including:
- church halls
- external meeting rooms and facilities
- church grounds
- boundary walls and fences
- redecoration including re-gilding
- bells
- organs
- clocks
- monuments
- brasses
- stained glass
- Grants must be claimed within 2 years.
- There must be at least one communion service a month held in
the church.
- A church can only apply once in any three-year period.
- Applications must give information on the project
(description, cost, timings) and the importance of the
proposed works, how they will benefit the mission and ministry
of the church and how the project fits with the diocese's
strategic aims. Applications must be for between £3,000 and
£25,000.
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