{"id":136422,"date":"2025-04-14T17:26:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-14T21:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=136422"},"modified":"2025-04-14T18:30:32","modified_gmt":"2025-04-14T22:30:32","slug":"church-times-39","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=136422","title":{"rendered":"(Church Times) Treasury warned of \u2018devastating\u2019 consequences for churches if LPWG\u00a0[Listed Places of Worship Grant] scheme ends"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Churches are much more than&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.churchtimes.co.uk\/topics\/church-buildings\">buildings<\/a>, and the Listed Places of Worship Grant (LPWG) Scheme is \u201cbeyond vital\u201d to ensure that they can continue to be at the heart of communities, the Christian Funders\u2019 Forum (CFF) has warned the Government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These buildings are also often of significant architectural value, the CFF, a group of 50 grant-making charities say. They award grants totalling \u00a370 million a year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Churches such as St Michael-le-Belfrey, York, and St Mary Magdalene\u2019s, Newark (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.churchtimes.co.uk\/articles\/2025\/14-march\/news\/uk\/church-in-newark-faces-600k-shortfall-once-cap-on-reclaiming-vat-imposed\">News, 14 March<\/a>, 4 April), where significant repair and restoration projects were already well advanced when the \u00a325,000 cap on VAT exemption for repairs was announced in January, have been dismayed by the shortfalls in funding with which they are now confronted (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.churchtimes.co.uk\/articles\/2025\/28-march\/news\/uk\/government-assessed-impact-on-listed-churches-before-grant-scheme-change-mp-is-told\">News, 28 March<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.churchtimes.co.uk\/articles\/2025\/4-april\/news\/uk\/the-transformation-of-church-in-wigan\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p><\/p><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Treasury warned of \u2018devastating\u2019 consequences for churches if LPWG scheme ends <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/qGfxfgsYkJ\">https:\/\/t.co\/qGfxfgsYkJ<\/a><\/p>&mdash; John Inge (@BishopJohnInge) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BishopJohnInge\/status\/1911689793399894389?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 14, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Churches are much more than&nbsp;buildings, and the Listed Places of Worship Grant (LPWG) Scheme is \u201cbeyond vital\u201d to ensure that they can continue to be at the heart of communities, the Christian Funders\u2019 Forum (CFF) has warned the Government. These<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=136422\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[324,199,168,600,151,108,441,587],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-136422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church-of-england","category-england-uk","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-housingreal-estate-market","category-politics-in-general","category-religion-culture","category-stewardship","category-taxes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=136422"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136422\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":136426,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136422\/revisions\/136426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=136422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=136422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=136422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}