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If you would like to apply for a grant or help support the Trust you will find all the information you need on our site.

Registered Charity No: 1120266

Welcome to the Gloucestershire Historic Churches Trust

GHCT is a charity which raises funds to help places of Christian worship of all denominations with repairs and improvements to the fabric of the buildings and their contents, as well as to their surrounding churchyards.

Our aim is to help keep the 500+ churches and chapels in the county alive, not only as places of worship and active centres of community life, but also as buildings which make a huge impact on the landscape of Gloucestershire and help to draw visitors to the county.

Recent grants include:

• £5,000 towards repairs to spire and tower at St Mary, Bromsberrow
• £3,000 towards heating, lighting and porch refurbishment at St Mary, Adlestrop
• £5,000 towards repairs and conservation of south porch at St John Baptist, Cirencester
• £500 towards reconstruction of scullery block at St Peter's Grange, Prinknash Abbey
• £250 towards repairing and moving font in St Peter, Newnham
• £500 towards a store and WC with access for disabled at St Margaret, Whaddon
• £5,000 towards renewing part of roof at Little Chapel, Rodborough United Reformed Church

For a full list of grants awarded in June 2009, please go to the GRANTS page

All projects are carefully examined to ensure that there is need, and that the proposed repairs or improvements will be carried out professionally and to an appropriate standard.

 

Our main fund-raising activity is the national Ride and Stride Day, which falls on the second Saturday each September. This is a wonderful county-wide event for people to take action (on bike, on foot, on horseback or wheelchair) to raise money for their own nominated place of worship and to contribute to the charity’s funds for annual distribution across the county. Please go to the Ride and Stride page to see what an enjoyable family and community event this is.