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In 2021, Gloucestershire Historic Churches Trust are celebrating their 40th birthday and the over £2m in grants they have given so far.

Ride+Stride 2021 Gloucestershire Historic Churches Trust has announced the annual Ride + Stride event will take place on Saturday 11th September 2021, assuming all goes to plan with the roadmap out of lockdown. Ride+Stride is a nationwide event supported by the...

Our first forty years The Gloucestershire Historic Churches Trust (GHCT) are pleased to be celebrating the first 40 years of the Trust in 2021!  Over this time, we have made grants worth over £2m for renovations and improvements to local churches.  This has been a...

Gloucestershire Historic Churches Trust (GHCT) is pleased to announce it is making renovation and improvement grants totalling £75,000 to seventeen local historic churches this December. In this difficult year for churches, GHCT is delighted to help another seventeen...

We raise funds and provide £150,000 in grants for churches every year in Gloucestershire, South Gloucestershire, and North Bristol. Our grants for the repair and improvement of churches are vital to help these buildings stay alive as active centres of community life...

Gloucestershire Historic Churches Trust (GHCT) is delighted that 2020’s Ride+Stride was a huge success raising £35,000+ for church renovation and improvement grants in the area - despite everything that coronavirus has thrown at us this year. Ride+Stride is a...

Gloucestershire Historic Churches Trust is proud to be supporting a major conservation project to preserve medieval wall paintings at St James the Great in Stoke Orchard.   The wall paintings illustrate story of St James of Compostella and are unique in England. ...

Churches are so much more than places of worship according to a new report from the National Churches Trust For the very first time, the National Churches Trust House of Good report quantifies the economic and social value of all church buildings to the UK. Not just...

Volunteers are wanted to help with our Grants Secretary and develop our photography at Gloucestershire Historic Churches Trust

Gloucestershire Historic Churches Trust (GHCT) are delighted that despite coronavirus Ride+Stride 2020 will be taking place on 12th September. More than ever, historic churches in Gloucestershire, South Gloucestershire and North Bristol need your support.

A major project supported by grants from the Gloucestershire Historic Churches Trust is looking to recruit a Graduate Conservation Assistant and a Student Conservation Intern. The Perry Lithgow Partnership have been appointed to carry out conservation treatment to the...

The current pandemic means that for the first time The Gloucestershire Historic Churches Trust is going to hold its AGM via the Zoom video conferencing application. The AGM will be held on Zoom on 8th June at 5pm.