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Ride+Stride at Nailsworth

Ride+Stride: How many churches could you visit in a single day?

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...

Jamie Eykyn and John Cannan with HRH after Polo match for GHCT

Celebrating our 40th Anniversary

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...

St Mary's church Yate

GHCT brings Christmas cheer to 17 historic churches!

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...

Volunteer

Volunteers Wanted!

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...

Ride+Stride at Nailsworth

Ride+Stride 2020 exceeds expectations!

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...

Stoke Orchard wall paintings conservation project

Saving unique medieval wall paintings at Stoke Orchard

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. ...

The House of Good

The House of Good

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...

Could you help the GHCT

Could you help us?

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

Family visitng a church

Your churches need you – Ride+Stride to go ahead for 2020

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.

Edge - repairs in progress

Annual General Meeting 2020

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.