Find out about our church improvement grants and fundraising in our latest Annual Review
Our Grants Committee awarded £125,500 in grants to 39 places of Christian worship of all Denominations in 2024.
You can read several grant case studies in the full Annual Review.
Fundraising continued despite the virus, including Ride+Stride, which raised over £44,000. Other income rose to over £70,000, partly thanks to generous legacies. Donations come from our loyal supporters, churches, and other charitable trusts.
GHCT has no employees and is entirely volunteer-managed and we are grateful to our Trustees, Council Members, and volunteers for their commitment.
Delia Beake, Holy Trinity, Stapleton PCC
“We shall be forever grateful to the Gloucestershire Historic Churches Trust who were significant donors and encouraged and supported us in our five year fundraising project to fix the roof.”
Dr Rosemary Jones, Treasurer, St John’s Pitchcombe
“I truly believe that the support we received from the GHCT was vital to the project. Above all I appreciated the personal and friendly approach of the Trust to what, after all, is a very small church in the county.”
Heather Cocker, Church Secretary, Longhope Baptist Church
“The Trust’s advice was invaluable….Members of the Trust have stayed in touch - their interest in our project has been very encouraging, especially as we are not a typically beautiful and ancient village church, and only date back to 1827!"
Our Annual Review for 2025 has now been printed and sent to those on our mailing list, and a digital copy has gone to those for whom we have email contacts.
Do please take a look at what we have been doing. You will find descriptions and pictures of four very different projects which we have supported in 2025, together with a full list of the grants we have offered.
Our cover picture this year is a dramatic bird’s eye view of St Andrew’s URC, Cheltenham. We have been pleased to support the major repair work to the spire. You will find the story in the Annual Review, together with some of the other churches we have been able to help.
We are always grateful for photographs relating to our work, and we would like to thank those whose pictures appear in the 2025 Annual Review:
- p4 The photo of Patricia Broadfoot in Charfield church was taken by Marcus Green.
- p5 The views of the event at Woodchester Park House were taken by Naomi Buckler.
- p7 The photo of Bishops Cleeve church in the snow was taken by Terry Richer.
- p10 The view of the existing servery at Stapleton Holy Trinity was supplied by the parish.
- p19 The Ride+Stride photos were supplied by the parishes concerned.
Other photos are by Jonathan MacKechnie Jarvis