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<p>Advice and support for parishes and cathedrals is available via the Church of England’s
platform ‘Church Care’, this website acts as a portal for advice on management, maintenance,
development and grants available to parishes and cathedrals.</p><p> </p><p>During
the pandemic period, £30m of grants that have been awarded to Church of England churches
and cathedrals from a combination of the Government’s Culture Recovery Fund (CRF)
and the National Lottery Heritage Fund’s Emergency Fund. The Church of England is
grateful for this support and recognition by the Government of the key role these
buildings play in their local communities.</p><p> </p><p>The grants awarded by the
Culture Recovery Fund were allocated to 227 churches and cathedrals with 43% of this
money is going to the 30% most deprived parishes – over £12.9m; 20% of the money going
to the 10% most deprived parishes, totalling over £5.9m.</p><p> </p><p>The Lichfield
Diocese received of six grants totalling £342,825 from the Culture Recovery Fund and
the National Lottery Heritage Emergency Fund, this included five awards to parish
churches totalling £199,925 and a grant to Lichfield Cathedral of £142,900</p><p>
</p><p>A second Culture Recovery Fund has now launched, and churches with listed buildings
are being encouraged to apply for support.</p>
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