Our new calculator will help you put a figure to the amount of social value generated by activities at your church, chapel or meeting house. This is useful for funding applications, to motivate volunteers and to increase support for your place of worship.
The National Churches Survey: Northern Ireland is the largest recent survey on church buildings and provides a detailed analysis of the state of these buildings in Northern Ireland today, as well as the challenges they face and the role they are playing in society.
Read the summary evaluation report of the Treasure Ireland project, including more about the grants awarded, successes of the project, the challenges moving forward and key learnings.
The National Churches Survey shows what’s at stake with the future of church buildings and the scale of threat that they face. It outlines where and how churches are most in need of support and offers a message of hope for the future.
Our annual analysis of Historic England’s Heritage at Risk register reveals the church heritage ‘danger zones’ across England. The research also shows that a majority of MPs in England have at-risk churches in their constituency and you can explore the data with our interactive map.
Churches up and down the UK play a major role in facilitating music and community groups in different guises. This research shows just how important they are but measuring the wellbeing effect for the people that take part.
The House of Good: Health examines the value that churches have in supporting the nation’s health and reducing pressure on the NHS. The groundbreaking research puts the value of this support at £8.4 Billion per year, the equivalent of employing 230,000 nurses.
We commissioned Whitestone Insight to interview 2,667 UK adult Christians online between 12 and 20 June 2024, asking about how they would respond to the closure of their local church. The results show the significant impact that church closures have on worshipping communities.
Our Savanta opinion poll on attitudes to church buildings surveyed 2,092 UK adults online between the 8 and 10 December 2023. The poll's key findings demonstrate widespread public support for church buildings.
Despite a decline in the number of Christians in the UK, the public overwhelmingly support the nation’s 39,000 churches, chapels and meeting houses, according to the findings of an opinion poll commissioned by the National Churches Trust.
An overwhelming majority of people think that churches are still needed, despite the growth of digital worship during the COVID-19 pandemic. That's one of the main findings of our consultation about the future of the UK’s church buildings.
When HM Treasury updated guidance in The Green Book, we recalculated the figures from The House of Good. The new method showed that churches actually provide £55 Billion social benefit to the UK – every year.
The House of Good is our groundbreaking research, which measures the value of all of these services to the country. Our first The House of Good report published in 2020, using HM Treasury Green Book methodology, showed that the economic and social value of churches was £12.4 billion per year.
During the COVID19 pandemic, churches were forced to close, putting much of the social good that they provide on hold. In May 2020, we carried out two online surveys, to understand the effect of closing churches and what people value about them.
The Supporting Places of Worship in Wales survey 2017 was organised by the National Churches Trust on behalf of the Welsh Places of Worship Forum. Many churches and chapels are vital for community life. However, the job of looking after religious buildings is becoming harder as congregations decline. This survey examined some of the key issues facing those who look after places of worship in Wales.
Almost 6,000 of the UK’s approximately 32,000 polling places – the physical locations of polling stations - are in church buildings, representing 19% of the total. These findings show that church buildings play an important role in the administration of the democratic process. Church buildings are well-located and widely recognisable local landmarks. If these buildings did not exist it would leave a big gap in the arrangements local authorities have to put in place to enable people to vote at elections across the country.
