David BevanHistoric Church Buildings Support Officer

Helping your Church &

MAKING A BIG NOISE!

How can I support your church?

How can I really support your church?

Supplying information, advice and encouragement

Giving training and presentations

Helping parishes to share ideas and experiences

Linking to and signposting other help

Complementing your architect/surveyor

Working as part of the DAC team

Priority targets

General support for all churches

Ruined Segenhoe Church & repair of St Mary’s, Baldock

Web Email Telephone Face-to-Face

Sometimes its good to visit, meet and talk

www.stalbans.anglican.org/finance/fundraising-and-grants/

National grants

The wide range of grants available – highlighted by other websites Key national funders – Heritage Lottery Fund, Listed Places of Worship Grant Scheme, National Churches Trust, Church Care, the Allchurches Trust Other national trusts – Garfield Weston Foundation etc.

Local grants

Beds & Herts Historic Churches Trust

Other trusts and foundations with a local focus e.g. –- Steel Charitable Trust, Gale Family Charity Trust, John Warren Foundation, Mrs

B L Robinson’s Charitable Trust, The Luke Trust (NCT), - Simon Gibson Charitable Trust, Salisbury Pool Charity - Francis Coales Charitable Foundation,

Community foundations

Does your church/community have links with trusts or patrons?

Local fundraising

Your successful, engaging and fun ideas THANKS FOR YOURS

Advice on local fundraising

Training events and presentations – including this one

Training for Heritage Fundraisers – Institute of Fundraising

Successful churches

St Faith’s Church and Community Centre, Hexton

Organising projects

National Churches Trust – Managing building projects

http://www.nationalchurchestrust.org/building-advice/managing-building-projects

ChurchCare – All Guidance Notes

http://www.churchcare.co.uk/churches/guidance-advice/10-churches/520-guidance-notes

DAC Advice Leaflets

https://www.stalbans.anglican.org/finance/dac-advice-leaflets/

Other work …

Maintenance

Greensand Country Landscape Partnership:Church wall repairs and walking and cycling routes

Open and welcoming churches

Choosing and telling your story and making a song and dance about it …

Maulden Church on the Greensand Ridge

MAKE A BIG NOISE!

Your church deserves it

Being positive creates enthusiasm and attracts support from others

There are many reasons why your church is valuable

These can help your fundraising case

Your Church’s mission of love

The ‘House of the Lord’

The focus of faith and mission in the community

Church buildings support your mission despite their challenges

Funders have a range of reasons to give you money

Most churches are listed and the rest are important too

Parish churches have been called ‘England’s Finest Work of Art’

Three-quarters of the diocese’s churches are listed for their special architectural or historic interest

A high proportion are Grade I and II*

Unlisted churches also have heritage interest and can be good architecture too

St George’s, Norton, Letchworth by Peter Bosanquet, 1961-1964, unlisted

Every church is unique and has its own story

The what, when, where, who, why and how of your church building

St John’s, Farley Hill, Luton & St George’s, Anstey

Your church is part of national and local history

Dunstable Priory was ‘witness to the start of the English Reformation’ when Henry left Catherine

The Priory shows what was lost and survived as a result

All churches reflect changes that have swept across the country

All churches have played a part in local if not national history

Churches inspire wonder, pleasure and delight

Most have a WOW factor whether it’s a piece of stained glass or the vaulted nave

Standing in the street above the churchyard of St Mary’s, Hemel Hempstead Alec Clifton-Taylor had ‘almost the sensation of being able to clasp within his arms the central tower with its lofty, slender, lead-covered spire’

He called it ‘a delightfully intimate relationship’

St Mary’s, Hemel Hempstead

Churches are part of our landscapes and townscapes

They reflect the geology beneath our feet

They reflect permanence and change over hundreds of years

St Peter and All Saints Church, Battlesden

Churches and churchyards have fascinating relationships with their town or village

All Saints Church, Shillington

Churches make places special for everyone

They stand out and put neighbourhoods, towns and villages ‘on the map’

They help give places a recognisable character and identity

They are experienced everyday by many people

They are open and free to everyone

St Stephen’s, Bells Hill, Barnet

Churches display the fantastic skill and artistry of builders, masons, craftsmen and designers

St George’s, Anstey

Churches are all about people – who make them captivating and ‘front page news’

Whether a pub landlord or Lord of the Manor, everyone with a link to the church may have a good story to tell

And however long ago they lived we can share their thoughts and feelings

My dearest dust, could not thy hasty dayAfford thy drowsy patience leave to stayOne hour longer, so that we might eitherHave sat up or gone to bed together?

Part of Lady Katherine Dyer’s Poem

Monument erected for Sir William Dyer, St Denys Church, Colmworth

Churches matter to the wider community – past and present connections to the place and its people stimulate and engage local interest

Important occasions and social events bring people together and are valued and remembered

So there are Reasons to be Cheerful and MAKE A BIG NOISE!

David Bevan Historic Church Buildings Support Officer

HCBSupport@stalbans.anglican.orgTel 01727 818108

Thanks for listening

And please get in touch