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An event at Gloucester Cathedral in celebration of the Gloucestershire Historic Churches Trust’s 40th Anniversary.

For the 40th anniversary, GHCT published a booklet ‘Simon Jenkins Favourite Churches in Gloucestershire and Bristol’. 

Rev’d Canon John Swanton, Team Rector for the South Cotswold Ministry, has started his Ride+Stride 2021 campaign already.

Reaching our target will give the Trust a total of £40,000 on top of our fundraising efforts, enabling us to support more projects.

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...