<div dir="ltr">Hi all,<div><br></div><div style>Apologies for the cross-posting of this email, but I wanted to capture the largest audience possible. I hope people don't mind me asking for this type of advice in these groups, but I think they should contain the type of people who may be able to help me out!</div>
<div style><br></div><div style>I'm District Secretary of the Rochester District of the KCACR, and one of the towers in my District is on a mission to raise around £50k to get some work done to their bells (new fixtures & fittings, recast of 5th, tuning etc). So far, they have received a grant of £8k from the County BRF and have about £2k in their own bell fund so still have about £40k to go.</div>
<div style><br></div><div style>The tower captain approached me recently and asked if I might know of anywhere else they may be able to obtain grants from to help towards this figure. Apparently certain lists of organisations that could help have already been provided, but have yielded no results mainly because the vast majority have stopped giving grants or don't exist anymore.</div>
<div style><br></div><div style>So my question is, does anyone know of any organisations/funds that can be applied to for grants of this nature? Obviously the ringers at the tower will be carrying out their own fundraising activities when they can, but the concern is that with the church being in a location with few local residents and where only 2 services are held a month that this could take longer than the bells will remain ringable in their current state - the 5th is already cracked, shrouding is coming off wheels etc.</div>
<div style><br></div><div style>Any help or advice on this would be gratefully received, perhaps best off-list to prevent clogging the groups with this thread as it may not be of interest to everyone.</div><div style><br>
</div><div style>Many thanks in advance.</div><div style><br></div><div style>Kind regards,</div><div style>Doug Davis.</div></div>