Sadly our Schools Art Competition which was to be shown at the Stately Car Boot Sale has been postponed this year due to Covid-19. But some children have still managed to produce some lovely pictures, and we thought we would share them with you until next year when we will be holding another competition. So […]

Urgent repair work to a Breckland church prompted a swift response by the Norfolk Churches Trust. In its latest awards  of £65,235 to 16 churches across the county, the Trust was able to step in with a grant worth a total of £10,000 to ensure that on-going repair work could be completed at St Peter’s, […]

A major restoration of a medieval church tower in north Norfolk has been given a welcome boost by the National Lottery Heritage Fund. St Nicholas Church, Wells, has been awarded £39,200 in development funding for an ambitious community programme and to safeguard the 13th century medieval tower, which stands proud over the town. St Nicholas, […]

Key fund-raising events for the Norfolk Churches Trust have inevitably fallen victim to the on-going Covid-19 crisis. The Stately Car Boot Sale will be postponed to May 2021, said trustee and organiser Patrick Lines. There has been enthusiastic support for the event in late May at Sennowe Park, Guist, near Fakenham. It is hoped that […]

Four churches in west Norfolk have been targeted by lead thieves in the past two weeks. St Edmunds, Downham Market, lost an estimated £30,000 of lead from the south aisle. Thieves struck in the early hours of Wednesday, February 12. But three further churches have either lost lead or attempts have been made in the […]

Bike Riders have helped to raise almost £94,000 for churches in Norfolk. The final amount raised by supporters of the Norfolk Churches Trust’s annual fund-raising event topped 2018 by £2,190 to a total of £93,685.27. A delighted organiser Charlie Inglis said that even more fund-raisers took part in last September’s event. The number rose from […]

Applications for pitches at Norfolk’s 2020 Stately Car Boot Sale were returned within minutes. As emails were sent out for the Norfolk Churches Trust’s fund-raising event on Sunday, May 24, a dozen pitches were booked almost by return, said organiser Patrick Lines. Norfolk’s Stately Car Boot Sale, which has become immensely popular, returns to Sennowe […]

A sell-out success. All seats for April’s tour of the Stanford training area and its churches have been sold. Organiser Scilla Landale said that demand for the visit on April 17 has been tremendous and every place on the 53-seater coach has been sold. There’s a waiting list and it is quite long, she added. […]

A major restoration of a Mid-Norfolk landmark church spire will be starting later this spring. The church of St Mary the Virgin at Beeston-next-Mileham has been awarded £230,300 from the National Lottery Heritage Fund for major repairs. The grade 1-listed church with its twin-coloured octagonal Victorian spire was a welcome landmark for American aircrew returning […]

Plans to turn a round-towered church in north Norfolk into a community hub can now go-ahead, thanks to a 140,900 grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund. All Saints in Gresham dates back 1,000 years and the money will widen the use and enjoyment of the buildings and facilities to create an active community hub and […]