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<p><em>Dioceses, parochial church councils and cathedrals:</em></p><p>The Church Commissioners
do not hold figures broken down by Church of England diocese, parochial church council
or cathedral, for National Lottery Heritage Fund or Government grants.</p><p>Grants
from the National Lottery Heritage Fund to Church of England churches and cathedrals
over the past five years are as follows. Brackets indicate the number of grants awarded:</p><p>
</p><p>2016 £ 49,292,200 (166)</p><p> </p><p>2017 £ 25,264,900 (184)</p><p> </p><p>2018
£12,458,450 (144)</p><p> </p><p>2019 £11,652,300 (57)</p><p> </p><p>2020 £3,376,200
(67)</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Government (DCMS) figures for grants equal to the value
of VAT for works to listed Church of England places of worship over the past five
years are:</p><p> </p><p>2016 £20,689,034</p><p> </p><p>2017 £23,839,469</p><p> </p><p>2018
£24,773,038</p><p> </p><p>2019 £24,522,362</p><p> </p><p>2020 £24,665,225</p><p> </p><p>This
website, maintained by DCMS, contains details of the Listed Places of Worship Scheme
and recent total disbursement: <a href="http://www.lpwscheme.org.uk/" target="_blank">http://www.lpwscheme.org.uk/</a></p><p>
</p><p>Grants to Church of England listed places of worship under the Government’s
Culture Recovery Fund in 2020-21 totalled £54,387,240, broken down as follows:</p><p>
</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Building type</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Number
of grants</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Total amount of funding</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Cathedral</p></td><td><p>107</p></td><td><p>£29,424,529</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Major
Parish Church</p></td><td><p>154</p></td><td><p>£14,903,597</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Parish
Church</p></td><td><p>484</p></td><td><p>£9,889,114</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>
</p><p><em> Church Commissioners:</em></p><p> </p><p>The Church Commissioners do not
receive funding from the National Lottery Heritage Fund or Government grants.</p><p>
</p><p><em>Churches Conservation Trust:</em></p><p> </p><p>The Churches Conservation
Trust is an independent charity reporting to both Parliament and the General Synod.
It receives income from donations from individuals, trusts and foundations, and core
funding from Government (DCMS) and the General Synod of the Church of England via
the Church Commissioners. Funding for the last five years is as follows:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>
</p></td><td><p>2016/17</p></td><td><p>2017/18</p></td><td><p>2018/19</p></td><td><p>2019/20</p></td><td><p>2020/21</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Lottery
Grants</p></td><td><p>£1,325,882</p></td><td><p>£683,053</p></td><td><p>£537,795</p></td><td><p>£1,394,687</p></td><td><p>£2,193,611</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Government
Grant Funding</p></td><td><p>£2,749,000</p></td><td><p>£2,738,001</p></td><td><p>£2,604,000</p></td><td><p>£2,608,000</p></td><td><p>£4,533,451
of which £2,788,000 grant in aid</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Church Grant Funding</p></td><td><p>£1,355,000</p></td><td><p>£1,355,000</p></td><td><p>£1,655,000</p></td><td><p>£1,430,000</p></td><td><p>£1,430,000</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>
</p><p>The Annual Report and Accounts of the Trust are laid before Parliament and
are available at <a href="https://www.visitchurches.org.uk/what-we-do/about-us/annual-report-accounts.html"
target="_blank">https://www.visitchurches.org.uk/what-we-do/about-us/annual-report-accounts.html</a></p><p>
</p><p>The National Churches Trust October 2020 report ‘The House of Good’, found
that the total economic and social value that church buildings generate in the UK
amounted to at least £12.4 billion per year, an average of around £300,000 per church.
The report can be viewed here: <a href="https://www.houseofgood.nationalchurchestrust.org/"
target="_blank">https://www.houseofgood.nationalchurchestrust.org/</a></p>
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