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Ride and Stride Our grants The September 12 2009 Ride and The full list of grants and loans made in Stride raised £26,169, with an 2008/09 appeared in the annual Report, but additional £4,200 recoverable in the ‘pie-charts’ below show how much we have Gift Aid. The Trust and the depended on the WREN block grant to help churches chosen by the churches. participants will receive half each. This total was slightly lower than in 2008 and more worryingly, the Number of grants and loans CAMBRIDGESHIRE HISTORIC CHURCHES TRUST 2010

lowest since 1998. But many thanks • The work at the top of the to all who participated and tower of St Mary’s Great From the Chairman From the Secretary particularly to CHCT Trustee Eversden was helped with a WREN grant of £7,000 Following the untimely death of our Canon Chris Barber who raised The Trust offers grants and loans to places of worship from money we long-serving Membership Secretary £890, and the Revd John Graham raise ourselves and from funding derived from the Landfill Communities Peter Hewitt, I am doing my best for Fund by Waste Recycling Environmental Ltd (WREN). Last year’s (better known as Araucaria, Wren Grant the time being to fulfil his former Newsletter warned that the latter was likely to diminish as the nation compiler of Guardian crosswords), duties. CHCT Loan increased its efforts to recycle rubbish. However, the Trust was taken Peter maintained his records punctiliously who raised the extraordinary sum aback to learn in November that WREN would no longer be awarding us of £1,542. CHCT Grant but in written form; with Andrew a block grant to distribute to Cambridgeshire churches on their behalf. Westwood-Bate’s expert assistance, I have With the loss of the WREN grant, we WREN Grant Aid Grant WREN’s decision follows concern about its ability to met the landfill tax now compiled a computerised database. I am very grateful to those of you who have are especially keen to increase our regulations when grants are offered by a third party like CHCT. Trust money has been concentrated on making already confirmed your details. income from the day and want to make In effect, our available funding for loans to 17 places of worship, often in addition However, I cannot guarantee that I have the 2010 Ride and Stride as successful grants has more than halved. In each of transferred all the information with total to grants. We believe a loan is an incentive to get the last four years, we have given an as we possibly can. We will be helped accuracy, it would therefore be very the works underway; wallets can open when a average of £56300 in grants, equally by the National Churches Trust who • CHCT offered a loan of helpful if you would check the address scaffold goes up as donors can see the project split between WREN and CHCT. In will be promoting the event nationally £12,000 and a WREN grant of label on the envelope in which this has actually started. £5,000 towards a new toilet at addition, WREN has given us awards Newsletter has arrived and alert me to any (see www.rideandstrideuk.org) but we St Leonard, Little Downham. from their Gift-aid fund totalling nearly errors. If you have e-mail and are willing to need your help too! In just two hours, £34000 since 2006. We are told ‘WREN receive appropriate communications from you could walk around ten churches would still like to be able to support the Trust by this means, could you send me and college chapels in or How we offer our funds Churches and we are looking for ways an email to this effect? I emphasise that we cycle to the same number in the of being able to provide funding under a would only use this method to send simple communications and would not send bulky countryside. And you know it does you new program (sic)...but it is unlikely there will be any firm news before June • Holy Trinity, Orton Longueville. The Trust or complex attachments which may take an good! offered a loan of £20,000 and a grant of £5,000 2010’. Trustees expect to have awarded excessive time to download or consume towards an extension for new facilities being large quantities of ink if printed. We need a new County Organiser and the entire WREN monies by June, so we added to the north of this Grade 1 church. some new deanery organisers too. The have decided to use all last year’s I must also make it clear that the Trust will income for CHCT grants in 2010/11 only use your contact details for the latter distribute the information around We have also looked hard at our own (rather than increase the money for expenses in running CHCT and purpose of the Trust’s business within its their area and answer any queries (or loans). Most of our annual income concluded that we are no longer charitable objectives and for informing you of matters relevant to those objectives. pass them on to the County Organiser), Wren Grant comes from the annual Ride and Stride covering basic running costs – the Your details will not be divulged to any so are at their busiest in May and CHCT Grant • St James the Great, Waresley. A event in September and so we will be Annual Report, this newsletter, Ride third party without your express consent. around the day of the Ride. You don’t CHCT Loan grant of £1,000 enabled the bell putting extra effort into it this year and Stride, website – from our installation project to be David Stazicker need to ride yourself, see the time you WREN Grant Aid Grant completed after costs rose. (see page 4). continued on page 2 give as your contribution! Of the 28 projects helped, 25 were Church The trust is an independent Charity with a primary task to support the repair and restoration of places of Christian worship in A new County Organiser will be the of churches, one each United Cambridgeshire. Its funds accrue from the annual sponsored cycle ride and are used to make grants and interest-free loans to churches. key to our success this year and could Reformed and Methodist churches and one It also gives grants from Landfill Tax Credits made available through Waste Recycling Environmental Ltd (WREN). also contribute as a member of the a Friends Meeting House. Support to the Trust is also given through Membership. Members receive advance notices of the Annual Conference and the summer Executive Committee, so if anyone afternoon Church Tours. Annual subscription is £10. wants to make this valuable Secretary: David Stazicker, The Willows, Low Bank, Mepal, Ely, Cambs. CB6 2AU. Tel: 01353 778129 contribution to the Trust (and so to the Email: [email protected] churches of Cambridgeshire), please • RIGHT: A WREN grant of £6,000 was spent on new stonework Membership Secretary: contact the Chairman at 01353 645131. and a lead roof at St Peter, Horningsea. 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From the Chairman contd. Peter Hewitt – subscriptions. This is not so surprising, Protecting ‘Enduring monuments’ Church Tour as we believe it is at least twenty years An immense since the present £10 minimum annual metal roofs The Cambridgeshire Historic Churches Trust Dates 2010 subscription was set! After comparing contribution 2009 has brought some respite Conference 2010 CHCT with other county church trusts, The sudden death of Peter Hewitt, our from the spate of thefts from Wolfson College, Cambridge, Trustees now wish to raise the annual metal roofs, though there member subscription to £20. We have tireless membership secretary, greatly May 1st 2010, 9.30 for 10.00 – 16.30 saddened us all. Trustees who attended appears to be a rising trend now decided not to introduce a ‘couples’ his memorial service in his beloved St (possibly due to the longer rate with its increased bureaucracy, but Wendreda’s Church in March were will continue to offer a reduced fee for winter nights). astounded to discover just how many the annual conference to each member Insurance companies, especially other activities Peter was involved with – and a guest. These new rates will be however did he find the time for CHCT? EIG (see www.ecclesiastical.com) presented to the AGM for introduction His contribution was immense and we encourage preventative measures from January 2011. were very touched that he remembered and there is a great deal of Unlike some other trusts, our us in his will; his legacy will be practical advice available from programme of church tours will remain commemorated by a grant in his name. them and from free, as we wish to encourage as many www.nationalchurchwatch.com people to come as possible (but we will and www.beatmetaltheft.org Sunday 9th May: try to recruit new members.) The Moving on and WALSOKEN, All Saints congregational subscription will also CHCT will offer 50% of the cost SOUTHEA (PARSON DROVE), be raised to £50 and we will expect moving in of applying Smartwater to a Emmanuel grant and loan recipients to take out a maximum grant of £1000. Using ST MARY, St Mary congregational subscription for up to We wish Rt Revd Anthony Russell and it should at least double the his wife Sheila a long and happy four years, so contributing to our funds amount of your cover in the event Sunday 13th June: for the benefit of others. retirement in Oxfordshire. Their strong This year’s conference will address the history and care of church monuments COCKAYNE HATLEY, of a theft to £5000 (which is support for CHCT during his ten years as and memorials and changing attitudes to death and commemoration. St John the Baptist This increase in subscriptions entails a Bishop of Ely is very much appreciated. actually close to the average claim EVERTON, St Mary major overhaul of our membership list Professor Richard Marks ‘The rood and remembrance’ (medieval rood value). CHCT is extending its screens and funerary rites) , St Mary the and we are taking the brave step to Trustees welcomed Rt Revd Dr David offer to the cost of installing an Thomson, Bishop of , as a Virgin computerise it! We will also introduce a alarm or CCTV system that meets Professor Marks curated the major exhibition Gothic at the V & A in standard 1st January renewal date from new CHCT Trustee in January. His 2003-4. Sunday 11th July: diocesan knowledge will be invaluable in the approval of your insurers. January 2011 and forms for payment at These are not as expensive as you Dr Jean Wilson ‘Post reformation memorials’ (and what they intended to HISTON, St Andrew the new rate will be distributed with the guiding our work, but Bishop David is might think, especially if they can communicate) LONGSTANTON, All Saints papers for the Annual General Meeting also a scholar of mediaeval art and OAKINGTON, St Andrew Jean Wilson lives in Harlton and is a council member of the Church Monuments to be held in October 2010. Members architecture and so we look forward to be mounted in the tower Society. who are due to pay an annual benefiting from his academic overlooking hidden roofs; Sunday 8th August: subscription between 1st July and 31st contributions too. monitoring and links do need Dr Julian Litten ‘Funerary monuments and attitudes to death in the , St Peter & St Paul eighteenth and nineteenth centuries’ WITCHFORD, St Andrew December this year will be credited Congratulations to our founding Trustee careful thought though. Ask your MEPAL, St Mary with half the new annual subscription. Julian Limentani for being made a lay insurer or architect for advice on England’s foremost funerary historian; his book ‘The English Way of Death’is in what is available and appropriate its 4th reprinting. These changes should make the Trust canon of Cathedral (where Each tour begins at the first for you – and don’t rely on a easier and cheaper to run and once set he is the Chapter’s architect) and the Panel discussion with representatives of the Church Buildings Council and church at 2.30 and ends with tea up, enable your hard working Executive award of a Papal Medal for his salesman’s patter! English Heritage and a leading conservator. Advice will be given on the care and evensong at the last church to concentrate on our real business, architectural services to the Diocese of and repair of monuments, where to get professional help and sources of East Anglia, both in 2009. funding. raising and distributing funds for the The diocese of Coventry and The National Churches Trust will repair and enhancement of the historic Today’s Cambridgeshire includes the English Heritage have joined For more details and to download the shortly be sending a questionnaire places of worship in Cambridgeshire. former , now a forces to promote wider access to booking form please visit the website to all places of worship to establish Thank you to all our members for your unitary authority. The southern part is in churches in Warwickshire with the www.cambshistoricchurchestrust.co.uk/ up to date facts with which to support over the last year and and our the Church of England , project Divine Inspiration. The conference.htm persuade Government and others, special thanks to Archdeacon Hugh the northern in the diocese of events and activities listed might or contact 01223 892430 that more financial support is McCurdy, who has donated £1,000 Peterborough. We therefore look forward give this county’s congregations Conference fees; needed if these buildings are to survive. Please help them if you raised from his sponsored cycle ride last to welcoming Ven. Donald Allister when ideas of what can be done. CHCT Members and 1 guest £15.00 can, as their national voice is year to all the churches in his he is installed as the new Bishop of See www.divine-inspiration.org.uk Non-members £20.00 archdeaconry. Thank you, Hugh. Peterborough after Easter. Buffet lunch £12.00 louder than ours! www.cambshistoricchurchestrust.co.uk www.cambshistoricchurchestrust.co.uk

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