Our Board of Trustees met for the second time this year on December 4th and awarded grants to Oakham All Saints Church, St Peter & St Paul in Market Overton and the Oakham Friends Meeting House. Added to the six grants awarded at the June meeting, the total number of grants awarded in 2024 is nine, at a total cost of £67,000. The grants are:
- All Saints, Oakham: £20,000 towards the new lighting project
- St Peter & St Paul, Market Overton: £15,000 towards roof repairs
- St Mary's, Greetham: £12,000 towards the cost of replacing the bell frame
- Empingham Methodist Church: £6,000 towards the costs of replacing the vestry floor and associated work necessitated by damp
- St John the Evangelist, Caldecott: £5,000 towards costs of guano removal and netting repairs of apertures in the spire, bell chamber and clock chamber
- Langham Baptist Church: £3,000 for urgent roof repairs
- St Mary’s, Manton: £3,000 towards the costs of stripping and repointing the internal west wall of the church
- St Andrews, Glaston: £2,000 towards the costs of rebuilding the northern boundary of the churchyard dry stone wall
- Oakham Friends Meeting House: £1,000 towards the cost of repairing external walls