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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
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Nina McNeary

Listed of Places Worship Scheme only renewed for one year with reduced budget

The National Churches Trust responds to the decision made by the UK Government on the future of the Listed Places of Worship Grants Scheme. Find out more about the decision and what this will mean for churches.

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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.

Harthill All Hallows
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We're hiring: Church Support Administrator

Join our team and help support historic churches to stay open and in use. We are looking for an organised individual with an excellent phone manner and great IT and administrative skills. You will provide effective administration to our grant programmes and support services, assisting our UK-wide Support Officers as they work with places of worship across the country.

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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

Church of the Week

Newbridge, Gwent

Built in the late 1930s,Newbridge Our Lady of Peace consists of a tall basilica style church with a five storey bell tower. The London-based architect PD Hepworth designed the church. Hepworth’s works were described by architectural historian Nikolaus Pevsner in 1954 as in the Swedish style of c.1925 which became so popular in England amongst those who were not satisfied to be imitatively neo-Georgian nor modern. We were delighted to award Our Lady of Peace a significant grant, along with the Wolfson Foundation, to carry out urgent repairs and engage the local community with the building.

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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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