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Helping your Church & MAKING A BIG NOISE! David Bevan Historic Church Buildings Support Officer

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

Sometimes its good to visit, meet and talk Web Email Telephone Face-to-Face

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’ St Mary’s, Hemel Hempstead He called it ‘a delightfully intimate relationship’

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 St Stephen’s, Bells Hill, Barnet They are open and free to everyone

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 day Afford thy drowsy patience leave to stay One hour longer, so that we might either Have 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!

Thanks for listening And please get in touch David Bevan Historic Church Buildings Support Officer HCBSupport@stalbans.anglican.org Tel 01727 818108