# Allchurches Trust grants totalled biggest ever £15.6 million in 2017

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2018/02/05/allchurches-trust-grants-totalled-biggest-ever-2017/
- Published: 2018-02-05T09:38:16+00:00
- Author: Melanie May

**Allchurches Trust has announced that it gave grants totalling £15.6 million over
the course of 2017: its largest sum ever, to 1,324 churches, charities and communities
across the UK and Ireland.**

This was up from £13.2m in 2016, and included £2 million of grants to Methodist 
churches and causes from [Allchurches Trust](https://www.allchurches.co.uk/)’s newly
established Methodist Fund.

Grants included £750,000 for the Foundation for Educational Leadership, which is
training 300 head teachers to run schools focused on children’s all-round wellbeing,
£13,500 towards the conservation of nationally significant medieval wall paintings
at St Mary’s Church, Lydiard Tregoze near Swindon, £16,000 to conserve six early
Christian crosses in the Victoria and Albert Museum’s Cast Courts (see main image),
and £2,000 towards an all-year-round night shelter for 20 rough sleepers at Grace
Church, Wolverhampton.

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Sir Philip Mawer, Allchurches Trust Chairman, said:

> “Many of our grants help to repair historic churches and open them to wider community
> use, precisely the priorities identified by the Taylor Review. We look forward,
> therefore, to working with Government, the Church of England and other partners
> to help build a sustainable future for England’s unique legacy of historic churches.
> As well as helping historic churches, our grants help people suffering social 
> and spiritual loneliness and isolation, poverty, homelessness, trauma or lack 
> of opportunity.”

#### How to apply

There is no deadline for grant applications, with applications reviewed by the Trust’s
trustees as they come in and a decision communicated within three to six months.
Information on criteria for entries and [how to apply](https://www.allchurches.co.uk/application-for-funding/how-to-apply/index.aspx)
is available on the Allchurches Trust site.

 

Main image: Cast of green sandstone cross carved with scenes from the Old and New
Testaments, signs of the zodiac and other subjects from Monasterboice churchyard,
Louth, Ireland.

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