NOMINATE A HERITAGE CHARITY FOR £1,000 AWARD

[APPLICATIONS ARE BEING INVITED for the 2023 round of Benefact Group’s Movement for Good Awards – grants that range from several rounds of £1,000 for nominated charities to a smaller number of grants of £5,000 or £10,000 to be announced later in the year.

Now in their fifth year, the Movement for Good Awards will once again see more than £1m gifted to charities up and down the UK and Ireland.

As the country’s major provider of insurance for heritage and church buildings, Benefact Group company Ecclesiastical is inviting people to nominate their favourite heritage charity to receive one of the £1,000 awards.

Previous heritage charity winners include The Princess of Wales’s Royal Regiment and Queen’s Regiment Museum Maintenance Fund, The Friends of Coldharbour Mill Museum, and Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway Trust.

Since the awards began, people have submitted an incredible 1.75m nominations and more than 2,000 charities have benefited from valuable donations. The Movement for Good Awards has gifted over £4m since the initiative started.

Winners are drawn at random and the more times a charity is nominated the more chance it has of being selected. The first 150 winning charities will be announced from 1 June, with a further 150 revealed in September and a third tranche in December. The larger grants will be announced throughout the year.

Anyone wishing to nominate a charity for an award should visit www.movementforgood.com. q of worship and buildings of beauty, churches sit at the heart of the community. In many ways they stand between the past and present. We are thrilled to continue our partnership with the National Churches Trust to support the preservation of these significant, much-loved historic buildings across the UK.” q