Large Grants for Churches

They support a variety of churches, chapels and meeting houses across the United Kingdom with their grants programmes.

Their grants are available to any Christian place of worship in the UK that is open for regular worship.  They help keep church buildings in good repair, open for worship and community activities,  and allow them to continue to serve people, communities and visitors in all sorts of ways.

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.

This programme offers our largest grants of up to £50,000* towards the cost of major urgent structural repair projects costed at more than £80,000 including VAT.

*grants of £40,000 to £50,000 are extremely limited and reserved for cases which demonstrate a very high case for investment.

They will also consider projects that introduce kitchens and accessible toilets to enable increased community use, costed at more than £30,000 including VAT. Grants will never exceed 50% of the project cost.

They will consider applications from listed and unlisted Christian places of worship, of any denomination, across the UK.

The application process begins with an eligibility quiz. If you cannot answer yes to each question your application will not be successful.

The questions include:

• Is yours a Christian place of worship within the UK, and open for at least six services of public worship each year?
• Do you own the building or have the right to carry out the work? If the church is not part of a major denomination then is the denomination registered with Churches Together in Britain and Ireland, or has it got charitable status?
• Was your place of worship built as a place of worship originally and is it more than 30 years old? And are the works that this phase will inform, be either directly to the building or attached to it?
• Is the building open to the public for a minimum of 100 days a year beyond worship use?
• Have you already raised at least 50% of this phase of the total project cost?
• Is the project yet to start (we don’t accept applications for projects that have already started)?
• Are two quotes in place for each element of the work in this application?
• If the application is for repair work – is the project being led by a qualified professional, with conservation accreditation from a recognised institution if it is a listed building? (please review the guidance note for more detail)