{"id":140675,"date":"2025-10-21T17:14:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T21:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=140675"},"modified":"2025-10-21T19:07:51","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T23:07:51","slug":"premiere-hundreds-of-uk-churches-fear-closure-by-2030-major-survey-warns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=140675","title":{"rendered":"(Premiere) Hundreds of UK churches fear closure by 2030, major survey warns"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Hundreds of local churches across the UK could close within the next five years, according to a major new survey published by the National Churches Trust.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 2025 National Churches Survey&nbsp;gathered responses from more than 3,500 churches across all major denominations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It found rural&nbsp;churches were the least likely to have confidence that they will remain open, with&nbsp;up to 7 per cent (900 churches) saying they&nbsp;could close by 2030.&nbsp;Meanwhile, 2,000 churches said&nbsp;they will \u201cdefinitely\u201d&nbsp;or \u201cprobably\u201d&nbsp;not be used as a place of worship in five years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The report also revealed widespread issues with church buildings, with many in poor or dangerous condition due to years of underfunding and rising repair costs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/premierchristian.news\/en\/news\/article\/hundreds-of-uk-churches-fear-closure-by-2030-major-survey-warns\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&#x26ea; Almost one in three churches could be closed by end of the decade<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/5DxIFZCwFI\">https:\/\/t.co\/5DxIFZCwFI<\/a><\/p>&mdash; The Telegraph (@Telegraph) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Telegraph\/status\/1980685559052771636?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 21, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hundreds of local churches across the UK could close within the next five years, according to a major new survey published by the National Churches Trust. The 2025 National Churches Survey&nbsp;gathered responses from more than 3,500 churches across all major<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=140675\">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":[389,440,184,441],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-140675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church-of-england-coe","category-evangelism-and-church-growth","category-parish-ministry","category-stewardship"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140675","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=140675"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140675\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":140680,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140675\/revisions\/140680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=140675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=140675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=140675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}