Grants Update

Spring 2024: We are delighted to announce that we have recently been awarded a grant of £3,900 from The Benefact Trust (received) and £8,000 from The Yorkshire Historic Churches Trust (to be paid on completion of the essential repairs project). We are immensely grateful to the support received from these two bodies. This brings the total of grants awarded so far since we launched our campaign to £19,400, including earlier awards of:

£250 from the Withernwick Wind Farm Community Chest for an asbestos survey

£2,250 from the National Churches Trust Foundation Grant Scheme towards the cost of measured surveys

£5,000 from the Withernwick Wind Farm Community Fund towards the repairs project

We await the outcome of further applications to the National Churches Trust Large Grants Scheme and the Congregational & General Trust.

Your ongoing support is also vital to our project and we thank you for being with us on this journey.

Report of Public Meeting held in St Swithin's Church on Wednesday 8 November 2023 at 7pm

Thank you to all who came and supported our Public Meeting about the Restoration Appeal on 8 November. We are grateful for your continuing support and for the fundraising suggestions put forward. We will try to keep you informed of our progress with the plans as put forward at our meeting. We would still love to hear from anyone with further fundraising ideas and if you are able to get involved please contact any one of the Restoration Fund Committee members listed below on this page. As reported at the meeting, our priorities are now the porch and other structural repairs around the building, and replacement of the tower roof covering and repair of the pinnacles. We propose to apply to the National Churches Trust under their Large Grants Scheme early next year to help with this. We have already secured a small grant from the Withernwick Wind Farm Community Fund but there will still be a shortfall in our funding so your help is still needed. Our aim continues to be to keep the church open, safe and accessible and then to improve the facilities so that we can make the building a real community space, whilst retaining its primary purpose as a place of worship. Please continue to support us. Thank you.