About this Funding:
Grants of up to £50,000 are available through the National Churches Trust Large Grants programme for churches, chapels, meeting houses and cathedrals. The National Churches Trust is a UK charity that supports church buildings and helps keep them open and in use.
The programme supports major urgent structural repairs costing over £80,000, and projects to install or upgrade kitchens and/or accessible toilets costing over £30,000. The average grant is currently around £21,000.
Applicants must be Christian places of worship in the UK, Isle of Man or Channel Islands, originally built for worship more than 30 years ago. Buildings must hold at least six public services a year and be open to the public beyond worship for at least 100 days a year, or commit to this after completion.
Key points include:
- applicants must have raised at least 50% of project costs;
- works must not have started;
- projects must be deliverable within two years;
- permissions and safeguarding policies must be in place.
Applications follow a two-stage process. The next stage one deadline is 3 November 2026. Applicants will be informed of the stage 2 deadline if they are successful at stage 1.
Funding Criteria:
Applicants must be Christian places of worship in the UK, Isle of Man or Channel Islands, originally built for worship more than 30 years ago. Buildings must hold at least six public services a year and be open to the public beyond worship for at least 100 days a year, or commit to this after completion.
