This page has links to all of the past DAC updates for Churchwardens.
March 2026
In this Issue: Focus on Churchyards
- Information and updates
- Energy Footprint Tool
- Welcome: Sally Ackroyd
- DAC annual report
- VAT and Climate Change Levy overpayments
- A new home sought for Crucifix and Stations of the Cross
- Candle sticks available
- The Church of England: now on WhatsApp
- Hertfordshire Fire Service set up a Christian network
- Training and Resources
- Top Tips for a successful application to the National Heritage Lottery Fund
- Faculties, List B and how to apply for them
- Clergy training in person – Caring for your church and churchyard, or church garden
- Accessibility – supporting those in ministry and leadership in our churches
- Save The Date – webinar “Decarbonising Churches – Voices of Experience”
- Environment
- Community Payback – help with maintaining your churchyard
- Living Churchyards
- NEWS: Clifton Churchyard is a County Wildlife Site and is listed as a Flowery Burial Ground
- News from the Diocesan Environment Officer
- External Oil Tanks
- Maintaining your building
- Recommended monthly tasks
- Grants and Funding
- National Church Net Zero Carbon Grants
- Upcoming Events
- Year of the Birds events at Clothall
- Information and updates
- URGENT UPDATE: Listed Places of Worship Grant Scheme and future government funding
- New Additional Matters Orders
- Making applications for DAC advice – Faculties and Minor Matters
- Defibrillators
- Hertfordshire Archive and Local Studies (HALS) – new opening times
- Martyn’s Law Briefing Note
- Telecom infrastructure on church buildings
- Churches looking for servers’ albs
- Training resources
- Accessibility Icons for websites
- Be Prepared & Stay Calm!
- Applying for a National Heritage Lottery Fund grant
- Environment
- Please act now! Energy Footprint Tool – Footprints for Creation
- Carbon Literacy for Congregations
- Church heating – Your questions answered
- Swift boxes in churches
- Maintaining your building
- Recommended monthly tasks
- Grants and Funding
- Receive funding – for free!
- Small Grants for Village Halls – apply now if you fit the criteria!
- Potential Grants for NZC, Biodiversity and Community Projects
- Good news stories
- St Mary’s Watford switches to green gas – The Diocese of St Albans
- Upcoming Events
- Beds & Herts Historic Churches Trust – A Life in Ruins
- Information
- New Additional Matters Orders
- Electric Heating Systems AMO
- Third-party hiring of churches and halls within faculty jurisdiction AMO and Guidance on Hiring
- Scaffolding in churchyards AMO
- St Albans Churchyard Regulations
- Volunteers – stories/photos wanted
- Survey: internet connectivity in churches
- New Faculty Application Fee
- Training resources
- Carbon Literacy Training – One Day Workshop
- Be Prepared!
- Churchwardens training – Church Buildings and Churchyards
- Environment
- Broken Heating?
- New Historic England advice on flooding and historic buildings
- Maintaining your building
- Recommended monthly tasks
- Damp in churches
- Ecclesiastical Insurance Forensic Marking
- Grants and Funding
- Quick Wins
- Accessibility Grants
- House of good – local
- Good news stories
- Meppershall celebrates
- Congratulations to St John, Royston
- Upcoming Events
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- Christmas Tree Festivals
- In this Issue: The theme of this Bulletin is Maintenance and Training.1. Information
- Richard’s Income Generation Tip of the Month
- Volunteer Opportunities with BHHCT
- Explore churches using an App
- Disability Awareness Sunday
- Timing of faculty applications
- Churchyard Management Training – 23rd October
- Churchwardens Training – Church Buildings and Churchyards Management (online)
- National Maintenance Week – November 2025
- Carbon Literacy Course – 15th December
- Learning Lunchtimes from the Flourishing Churches Team
- Choosing a new heating system
- Deanery Eco Champions – more still needed!
- The Living Churchyards Project – can you help?
- Eco Church Events
- The GREAT SWITCH for creation
- Parish Buying Energy Basket
- Recommended monthly tasks
- Minor Repairs & Improvements Grant to re-open for new applications
- Net Zero Carbon Quick Wins Grants
- All Saints, Willian
- The Scaffolding Is Finally Down
- Ready, steady, go! Thundridge Old Church Tower
- Cycling for access at Woburn Church
- Fundraising concert – Beds & Herts Historic Churches Trust
- Churches Visitor and Tourism Association
- Visitation services
- Filming in Churches and Churchyards
- Heritage skills for the future
- For sale
- Training: Churchyard Management
- Season of Creation
- Can you help?
- Energy Footprint Tool
- Net Zero Carbon Quick Wins Grants
- Heating Systems Guidance
- Recommended monthly tasks
- Listed Places of Worship Grant Scheme – Update
- Minor Repairs & Improvements Grant – Update
- The Benefact Trust – Important Update
- National Heritage Lottery Fund
- Fundraising idea for your pets?
- Keysoe – flower festival
- Newnham’s annual garden party fundraiser
- Bike and Hike
- Heritage Open Days
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- Volunteer Week
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- DAC Chair
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- Introduction of Seamus McGibbon, Pastoral and Closed Churches Officer
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- Churchyard Regulations
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- The National Churches Survey
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- Martyn’s Law
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- Beware of scammers
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- Free training from the DAC Team: Opening and Using Your Church
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- Churchyard Management workshop – Save the Date
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- Hearing Disability – New DAC Advisory Leaflet 9a
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- Please act now! Upload Energy Footprint Tool data for 2024
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- Eco Champions wanted!
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- Love your Burial Ground Week / Churches Count on Nature
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- Recommended monthly tasks
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- Money Matters Spring 2025
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- Minor Repairs and Improvements Fund
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- Christ Church, Radlett installs solar panels at Vision Hall
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- Carbon Literacy Project at Royston
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- Thanks from Waterford
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- More good news from Waterford: Restoration of the reredos
- BHHCT – Bike & Hike
- Free training from the National Churches Trust
- Spring clean your website!
- Are you open to visitors?
- Emergency Planning
- Workshops with St Albans DAC
- Deanery Eco Champions
- Net Zero Carbon
- Churchyard Regulation survey responses
- Items Available
- Recommended monthly tasks
- Apply for a Conservation Grant
- Living alongside bats in churches grant
- Stevenage, St Andrew and St George: Meeting needs with tea and toast
- Great St Mary’s in Sawbridgeworth: Conservation of monument to Viscount George Hewyt d.1689,
- Flamstead hawk!
- Volunteer Week
- Heritage open days
- Churchwardens’ Training – The Diocesan Website
- Developing a fundraising strategy for your project
- Opening your church to visitors
- Energy Audits
- Broken Heating?
- Churchyard management poster
- Repair it, don’t throw it
- Protecting Built Heritage
- Sale of treasures
- Site visits
- Parish Returns – just for information
- Recommended monthly tasks
- Ecclesiastical Insurance’s monthly risk calendar
- Listed Places of Worship Grant Scheme (VAT)
- Net Zero Carbon Quick Wins Grant
- Minor Repairs & Improvements Grant
- North Mymms double news
- Great news from St Paul’s Bedford
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- AccessAble – Letting disabled visitors know about access in and around your church building
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- Churchwarden training resource page: Taking care of your building contents
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- Supporting hedgehogs and other small animals
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- Heating your church this winter
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- Emergency works – process we follow
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- Applying for List B permission (Archdeacon’s Letter)
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- UK Digital upgrade
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- Church War Memorials
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- Maintenance week
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- Recommended monthly tasks
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- Funding newsletter – is this a link to the last newsletter?
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- Living Alongside Bats in Churches
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- Listed Places of Worship Grant Scheme
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- National Lottery Awards For All England
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- Benefact Trust – Movement For Good
- Planning for an emergency
- Events and Resources
- Information
- How to make your church inclusive
- What’s special about your church building – Statements of Significance
- Environment
- Do you have pew heaters that aren’t as effective as you think they should be?
- Churches Eligible for Reduced VAT on Energy
- Maintaining your building
- Grants and Funding
- Minor Repairs & improvements Grants and Net Zero Quick Wins
- Listed Places of Worship (LPW) Scheme
- Events and Resources
- Environment
- Energy Footprint tool
- Managing your Churchyard for Wildlife
- Information
- Quinquennial Inspection Reminder: Why is it so important to my church?
- New list of free resources
- External paints on timber, plaster and metal
- Maintaining your building
- Grants and Funding
- Good news stories
- Events and Resources
- Teatime Tuesdays (5-6pm)
- Church Maintenance workshop
- Fundraising training
- Featured DAC advice leaflet
- Free Canva Pro Account
- Environment
- Energy Footprint tool
- Churchyards
- Maintaining your building
- Grants and Funding
- Events
- Teatime Tuesdays (5-6pm)
- Church Maintenance workshop
- Fundraising training
- Environment
- Energy Footprint tool
- Grants and Funding
- Update – National Lottery Heritage Grants
- ChurchCare Conservation Grants
- Village Halls Small Grants Fund
- Minor Repairs & Improvements (MR&I) Grants
- Blog post – Opening your church
- Baroness Brinton on disability and inclusion in the Church and Society
- DAC advice leaflets
- Volunteers week
- Environment
- Church of England position on Hydrogen
- Energy Footprint tool
- Carbon Literacy training
- Church maintenance
- Quinquennial Inspections
- Ecclesiastical monthly risk calendar
- Tasks for winter and early spring
- VAT repairs – a success story
- Hearing Loops
- Grants and funding
- Heating
- The National Lottery Community Fund
- Caring for your church building
- Church Maintenance – Winter tasks
- Grants for heating projects
- Volunteers doing building work
- Environmental matters – Eco Diocese
- Information
- How the DAC can help with large scale projects
- Sharing church buildings
- Information
- Managing churchyards
- RAAC
- Local Authorities can support parish churches
- Quinquennial Inspections
- Scaffolding
- Health and safety
- Church maintenance – Autumn tasks
- DAC meetings
- Heating systems
- Churchyard management resources
- Lightning protection
- Heritage crime