The full Text of the Press Release announcing this is “East Harptree Church awarded major National Lottery Heritage Fund grant St Laurence East Harptree has been awarded a £294,900 grant by The National Lottery Heritage Fund to restore its 15C Tower, to conserve its wall paintings, stained glass and bells and to undertake a wide…
We submitted our Round 2 Heritage Grant/Lottery application on 26th May 2021. We are due to hear the results of that in September 2021
We completed our tender for the Main Works in April 2021 and our Preferred Contractor is Ellis and Co subject to us securing all our funding. Our programme assumes our works will start in late March 2022
We started our public appeal in the last week of February and appeal leaflets have been delivered to all households in East Harptree, West Harptree and Hinton Blewitt. The closing date is 30th April.
We launched our formal tender for the proposed works on 26th February. Responses are due in early April
Bath and North East Somerset Council have now confirmed that the conditions attaching to the Planning Approval granted in April 2020 have now been discharged
On 15th October 2020 we received our faculties for both the main works and the proposed interpretation. A major milestone. Now the hard work of applying to many grant giving organisations can begin with a public appeal being launched early in January
A Connection between East Harptree and the Novelist Jane Austen by Jo Brown July 10, 1791 MY DEAR MRS. FIELDING, After having wrote to you so lately you will be no doubt surprized at hearing again so soon, and not less so to find that the Cause is to inform you that we have…
We were granted planning permission for all the external and external facing works on 9th April and on the same date Advertisement consent for the proposed new noticeboard was granted
Recent grants: National Lottery Heritage Fund award £294,900, Garfield Weston £30,000 and East Harptree Parish Council £4000. Also Foulerton Trust, Bath and Wells Diocesan Association of Change Ringers, Burges Salmon, The Hobson Charity, Somerset Churches Trust, Allchurches Trust, St. Andrew’s Conservation Trust, Church Care, The Beatrice Laing Trust. If the government extend the LPOW VAT Grant Scheme again in March 2022 that is worth c£80k to the project. Zero VAT rating of the Inclusive Access Works would realise another £10k
