Funding Our Building
All Saints’ Church is an ancient Grade I listed building, requiring significant ongoing investment to keep it weatherproof and fit for our 21st-century community.
In 2020 we received £22,095 from the Historic England Grant for the Covid-19 Emergency Heritage at Risk Response Fund, enabling us to repair four leaded windows on the south side of the church; the work was carried out in 2021.
Capital Costs, 1998–2009
From 1998 to 2009 we spent a total of £88,292 (an average of over £7,000 a year) on capital costs for significant repairs and improvements:
- 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 grants received towards these costs between 1998 and 2009:
- 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 meant our church provided the remaining £68,353 from its own resources, including insurance claims — money found in addition to the annual £33,000 needed for Funding Our Ministry. All this finance came from our own community through fund-raising, regular giving, Gift Aid, legacies and investments.
Chancel Repair Liability
In 2013 the PCC faced a decision about this liability. To find out what the PCC did, see the document below.
Legacies
We are extremely grateful to Edith Annie Tune for her legacy, 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 the Winterton All Saints Legacies Fund to allow 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 and Dorothy Yeadon, and with gifts made in memory of Mrs H Freeman, Mr & Mrs D R Shawyer, and Prof & Mrs A C Walshaw.
If you would like to consider leaving a legacy to our church, there is further information in our leaflet below.