All Saints' Church, Winterton - Funding Our Building

Funding Our Building

All Saints' Church is an ancient Grade I Listed Building. It requires significant investment in order to keep it weatherproof and fit for use to meet the needs of our 21^st Century community.

In 2020 we received £22,095 from the Historic England Grant for Covid-19 Emergency Heritage at Risk Response Fund.

We are thus able to repair four leaded windows on the south side of the church. The work will be carried out in 2021.

From 1998 to 2009 we spent a total of £88,292 [an average of over £7,000 per year] on capital costs for significant repairs and improvements as listed below:

Repairs to roof and rainwater goods £34,552

Creation of Parish Room at west end of South Aisle £25,317

Grilles to protect windows £10,310

Repairs to vandalised windows £5,772

Internal decoration £5,392

Professional fees £2,306

Bell repairs £1,652

Stone wall repair £1,000

Repairs to vandalised floodlights £982

Repairs to vandalised tombstone £564

Organ repairs £246

Timber treatment £200

We gratefully acknowledge the financial help we have received towards the above costs in the period 1998-2009. Grants received from:

Entrust Landfill Communities Fund £7,814 [roof repairs and decoration]

Marshall's Charity £5,000 [roof repairs]

Lincolnshire Churches Trust £3,000 [roof repairs]

Listed Places of Worship Grant Scheme £4,124 [roof and wall repairs]

This has meant that our church has provided the balance of £68,353 [total of above costs less grants listed] from its own resources, including insurance claims.

This money has been found in addition to the annual £33,000 needed for Funding Our Ministry.

All this finance has come from our own community by fund-raising, regular giving, gift aid, legacies and investments.

For further information about how you can help us financially please see Funding Our Ministry.

Chancel Repair Liability:

In 2013 the PCC faced a decision about this liability. To find out what the PCC did see Chancel Repair Liability

Legacies:

We are extremely grateful to Edith Annie Tune for her legacy which was invested in 1997 to create the Winterton Church [Edith Annie Tune] Trust Fund which contributes about £1,000 every year to our Repairs Fund.

Following this we set up Winterton All Saints Legacies Fund to allow for future legacies to be invested and contribute to our building and general funding needs. At present this contributes about £2,000 each year. The Fund has been blessed with gifts from the estates of:

Elizabeth Audrey Butler; Gertie Fowler; Thomas Hardy; Harry Harrison; Kathleen Mary Hunter; Isabella Lo Russo Lees; Derek Millar; Stella Potter; Althea Robins; Rose Sanderson; Geoff Tunnicliffe; Dorothy Yeadon

and gifts made in memory of:

Mrs H Freeman; Mr & Mrs D R Shawyer; Prof & Mrs A C Walshaw.

If you would like to consider leaving a legacy to our church, there is further information in our leaflet Your Legacy Will Help

Repairs to stone wall