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Bewcastle Church raised £11,271.86 from 92 supporters
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Closed 31/03/2022
Weʼve raised £11,271 to help keep Bewcastle Church open
- Funded on Thursday, 31st March 2022
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,,If I were a shepherd I would bring a lamb; If I were a wise man I would do my part. (From In the Bleak Midwinter, a famous Christmas carol)
Bewcastle church – you will have been here at some time no doubt - maybe willingly or perhaps even reluctantly, maybe as a visitor or because you are local, maybe to marvel at the 1200 year old cross in the churchyard or to find spiritual support, - whichever, it is here for everyone. But we are going to need help. Recent adverse weather has taken its toll, so the roof and guttering are in urgent need of repair. The hard reality is that we need to find some £30,000 to put things right this year.
Here for 1,200 years faith and community have overlapped and entwined, as the Bewcastle Cross and tiny museum remind us. Within its walls generations have met to mark great occasions of family, community or national life - a wedding, a birth, a funeral, or special festivals like Christmas, Easter, Harvest and Remembrance, a Coronation, the outbreak or cessation of war. Loved ones have been laid to rest in the churchyard. Sunday by Sunday worship has taken place within it. It’s a heritage which has been entrusted to us, which we in our turn not only treasure but want to pass on to those coming after us.
All around the Bewcastle fells and fields are tens of thousands of lambs. We’ve asked every farm that sells lambs from now till Christmas to consider donating just the price of one lamb.
We’re asking the shepherds, may we ask you too?
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2 years ago
Bewcastle Church
2 years agoNearly half way to achieving our target! Thank you! If you'd like to add gift aid to your donation just email info@bewcastle.com with your name, address and postcode - it allows us to claim another 25% on top of your original donation from HMRC.
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2 years ago
Bewcastle Church
2 years agoA huge Thank you for such generous support! Interestingly we have received an additional £3,000 + from supporters who didn't use this JustGiving system! Gift aiding on this page is not possible, but if you'd like to gift aid your donation it can be done simply - if you email info@bewcastle your willingness for us to claim gift aid together with the first line of your address and your postcode.
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92
Susan Hampton
Jan 13, 2022
In memory of Desmond
£50.00
Ellen Frisch
Jan 12, 2022
£20.00
Mark Roberts
Jan 9, 2022
Good luck with the repairs. Very best wishes.
£50.00
S, M & M 🐾🐾
Dec 25, 2021
Such a beautiful church, surrounded with beautiful people x
£100.00
Jane Ramsey
Dec 22, 2021
£37.50
Ruth Robson
Dec 19, 2021
We visited yesterday especially to see the Bewcastle Cross. We had a look inside the Church and the exhibition in the Churchyard. Thank you to those that help keep it open.
£30.00
Alan Leigh Armstrong
Nov 20, 2021
If every Armstrong gave $30 or 30GPB, the total will quickly exceed $40K
£30.00
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Bewcastle Church
Here for 1,200 years there has been a church in Bewcastle. Within its walls generations have met to mark great occasions of family and community. Worship has taken place; peace and hope are found. But it needs urgent repairs to keep it open.