Listed Places of Worship Roof Repair Fund: some legal issues

Last week we reported that in his Autumn Statement the Chancellor of the Exchequer had announced a new Listed Places of Worship: Roof Repair Fund, under which grants between £10,000 and £100,000 would be available to listed places of worship of all faiths and denominations across the whole of the UK, “to support the maintenance of church roofs in 2015. This government-sponsored Fund is administered by the National Heritage Memorial Fund (NHMF), on behalf of the Department for Culture, Media and Sport, and was set up “to help make the UK’s listed places of worship weathertight, safe and open for use.” Continue reading