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Petition update, 02 August 2010

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This grants scheme enables listed places of worship to claim back the VAT (17.5%) on all costs incurred for repairs and maintenance to the building, professional fees and repair works to fixtures such as bells and organs. In real terms this has meant over £100 million since April 2001.

Such financial support has not only helped safeguard our national heritage (churches receive no other government funding or grants), but has also ensured that cathedrals and churches across the country can continue to be vital community resources, meeting people’s spiritual, social and educational needs.

If the Listed Places of Worship Grants Scheme is allowed to expire, many communities will struggle to keep their churches open and in good repair, thus jeopardizing the valuable service those buildings provide as well as our national heritage.

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• Mary Durlacher
• Geoffrey Williams
• stuart ainslie
• Stephen Smith
• Carol Bennett
• Kathleen Petch
• Nicola Waddington
• Jill Ritchie
• Carol Muhr
• Mark Cowell
• Stuart Armitage
• Debra Bennett
• Mary stannard
• Sandra Heyworth
• Carol Zerpa Falcon
• Martin Scovell
• diana kennedy
• Graham Tyler
• Ruaraidh Sutherland
• James Hall
• W.M. Everett
• Ian Rowe
• Mrs Juliet Davies
• Jane Thomas
• Martyn Hardy-King
• David Thomas
• Margaret Bender
• Rev'd Michael Aston
• Elisabeth Anne Frewin
• Diane Morris
• Douglas Kent
• Barry G Monk
• Jim Bates
• Janice Hamilton
• Margaret Cowell
• philip graeme baillie
• Grenville Gilbert
• wendy leoni baillie
• Doreen Mills
• Clare Arnison-Newgass
• Graham Smith
• tessa thomson
• Revd David Kellen
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• Marion Gilbert
• Susan Ann Allison
• David Barclay
• thomas mccarthy
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• Margaret Carter
• Maureen Smith
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• Janetta Lawrance
• Jackie Sams
• Rev Christopher Harrison
• Peter Coates
• Hilary George Burt
• Geof Osborne
• Jeannette Davies
• Janet James
• Patricia Iris Bagster
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• Richard Fraser
• Michael Ashton
• Kay Roberts
• Ronald Ellis
• Mark A Hurd
• Peter Chamberlain
• Madeleine Cerrone
• Tim Ratcliffe
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• margaret cook
• David Blythe
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• Christopher Bason
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• Irene & Ronnie Leet
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• Olivia Warburton
• Julia Kilfoyle
• Alan Gardner
• Rebecca Williams
• Margaret Wiseman
• J M Gibson
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• Jennifer Bell
• shirley george
• Simon Beresford
• Dr G LLoyd
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• Gary Hunt
• Tim Attride
• Joan Herring
• Dennis Brook
• Marion Ellis
• Jonathan Whing
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• Julian Henderson
• Fiona Robertson
• Rebecca Drewicz
• william john church
• P G LEE
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• Ross Perrin
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• Jenny Seddon
• Pam Cook
• Nigel Bacon
• Douglas Hitchman
• Billie Hylton
• Roger Balister
• Sir Humphrey Maud
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• Gordon Neilson
• Keith Wrate
• Stuart Egginton
• Nick Cox
• Alex Adkins
• Charlotte Spencer
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• Edward Holland
• christine dixon
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• Alexander Micklem
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• Colin Leggate
• Pauline Leggate
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• Canon Martin Wood
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• Chris Porteous CBE
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• Mary Weygang
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• Robin Stevens
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• Ruth Shaw
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• M.Ruth Clothier
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• Caroline Cliffe
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• norma arnold
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• Sally Forrest
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• Katharine Hughes
• Revd Dr Catherine Ball
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• Jeffery Wilson
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• Steve Bailey
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• madeleine osullivan
• Tony Waring
• Mary Williams
• Linda Hood
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• John Leonard Lynch
• Stephen Morgan
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• Ruth Guy
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• Shirley Taylor
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• Annemarie Whistler
• William Mundy
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• Yvonne Sommer
• Graham Clifton
• Margaret E Poston
• Richard Wilson
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• Anne Futers
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• Rita Hortin
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• Christopher Milestone
• Amanda rymel
• Ian Burns
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• Alison Souster
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• robert payton-greene
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• Brian Porter
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• Tony Doherty
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• George Allenby
• Jennifer Clements
• Raymond Fawcett
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• Jane Hatcher
• Timothy Hora
• W J L James
• yvonne bradley
• Jonathan Shattock
• peter bradley
• Jane Millyard
• Paul Blackham
• Lynda James
• Sir John Sykes
• Philip Barralet
• Christine Dadd
• Lady Susan Sykes
• Lorna Thurston
• Peter Williams
• Geoffrey Shilvock
• Gary Williamson
• Ray.H. Hart
• Christopher Berry
• Kenneth Charlton
• Joan Blandford
• mark barnard
• Andrew R Gray
• Jill Collins
• Kath Bristow
• Rosemary Pullen
• Dudley Light
• Brian Milne
• Hugh Richards
• A M Kullich
• Lesley Richards
• Barbara and Michael Stokes
• L Cunningham
• The Revd Paula Griffiths
• Gwyneth M Wright
• Felicity Lyons
• James Alfred Turner
• Phil Edwards
• Nicky Gottlieb
• John Barker
• David James
• Susan Barker
• Howard Upton
• Mike Simnpson
• Franklyn Bovey
• Marlene Broomhead
• Peter Clarke
• ann small
• Jacky Newman
• Mary Bovey
• Linda walton
• Barry Richard Joyce
• Jill Fereday
• Gill McMillan
• Ian Ronald Phelps
• LORNA CRICHTON
• Suzanna Woodhouse
• Christine Page
• Gareth Davies
• Jane Foster
• Linda Dowson
• John Fawcett Ogilvie Evans
• Judith Hinksman
• Richard Curtis
• Margaret Kirk
• judith margolis
• Llyn Parker
• Robert Gay
• Kim Gottlieb
• Melanie Woodcock
• Edward Thomas Idle
• Mike Billson
• Christopher Claxton Stevens
• Charles Walker
• Arthur patrick Stanley
• Shirley Lacey
• Michael Hodder
• Christopher J Dennison
• Mary J Dennison
• Elizabeth Jane Gogarty
• raymond john weightman
• Andrew Partridge
• Wiliam E Charlton
• Lee Churchett
• Paul Barker
• Linda Vickers
• Mr. & Mrs. K. Derry
• Hilary Taylor
• Catharine Bull
• Sarah Gough
• Marcus Chantrey
• Ivor Seyler
• Ali Heaps
• Philip Rodgers
• Thomas Plant
• Jane Rich
• Rosie Cunliffe
• amy walker
• pauline read
• Katy Teare
• Peter G.L.Cole
• Mandy Strawson
• Eileen Fuller
• Gloria Austin
• Matt Ward
• Hugh Poole-Warren
• Russ Green
• Nicola Stevenson
• George Brian Lingard
• Emma Lytton

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