An important event and opportunity for churches, chapels and graveyard organisations to seek funding for maintenance and upkeep.

An open and free event for churches, chapels and graveyard organisation will be held on Wednesday afternoon the 25^th of March at Newcastle Emlyn rugby club.

The event will start at 12.15pm with an opportunity for attendees to have a cawl lunch for a £5 and then to join the discussions about how churches, chapels and graveyard organisation can have funding support and how to reduce their running costs. There will be many important funders and support agencies attending, such as the National Churches Trust Funding, Heritage Lottery Fund, Wales Council for Voluntary Action, Architectural Heritage Fund, PLANED, Perthyn and other support agencies. The afternoon is open to any community group needing funding to run older buildings and assets, but everyone has to register in advance to ensure the total numbers are known for capacity purposes.

The event is being organised by PLANED’s Community Assets Coordinator, Cris Tomos. Cris noted. “It is important that communities with chapels, churches and graveyards know about current grant opportunities and what policies and reports are needed to have in place to ensure much needed funding to maintain these important building and assets is drawn down”

Cris continued, “The afternoon event in Newcastle Emlyn will have ample free parking at the rugby club and will have 3 sets of panellists proving information about grants, sustainable development of heritage building and examples of how to reduce running costs and generate more community income.

All those who wish to attend need to register as there is a limited number of spaces and to indicate if they wish to have a subsidised lunch at the beginning of the event. Anyone interested needs to register online with Eventbrite.co.uk and put PLANED into the search box to find information about the event or alternatively can phone the PLANED office on 01834 860965 to book attendance at this very informative conference.

09 Mar 2026