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St Richards Church, Ham
Project news: January 2026
We are thrilled to announce that The National Lottery Heritage Fund have awarded us a grant of £248,000 to develop our heritage project, and invited us to apply for a further grant of £2,828,000 to deliver the project.
This is extremely encouraging and a vote of confidence that we have a building worth saving, a story to celebrate and a future to anticipate.
We are very grateful to National Lottery players and to everyone who has contributed to the Restoration Fund in any way. It is their generosity that has enabled us to partner with the Heritage Fund in this exciting venture.
This grant, matched by £59,000 from St Richard’s, means that we have already appointed:
· a Project Manager to oversee the development of our project;
· a Heritage Consultant to prepare a programme of events and activities;
· a Fundraising Manager to help raise the additional funds needed.
It will also enable us to:
· Prepare a comprehensive plan to bring the building up to today’s standards of welcome and comfort;
· Carry out further surveys of the roof and complete the plans for the restored building.
St Richard's has been the parish church at the heart of Ham Riverside since the 1960s. Our vision is to worship God, welcome everyone and build community. On other pages you can read about our iconic building and how to support our restoration project, our leadership team, our mission, the different groups that meet and the various events that take place here.
The church is open!
Despite the scaffolding and wooden hoarding around the church, St Richard's is open for all our usual activities: the school comes in for their Collective Worship, Seedlings toddler group meets on Wednesday mornings, and services take place every Sunday and Tuesday as usual. 10am weekly, and at 4pm on the first Sunday of the month for our informal service. The church is also available to hire, and our regular users such as the choir and Pilates have returned. We will continue to post updates on our Facebook page.
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Project news update - April 2026
We are hugely grateful to Historic England for a grant of £428,384 towards the cost of installing internal structural support and an external scaffolding canopy to safeguard the roof until the main programme of repair and restoration can be carried out. They will stay there until the repair works due in 2027-28. You can read the BBC's report about the grant here, and enjoy some wonderful pictures of the church taken by Historic England here.
This has added significantly to the amount that we have to find in matched funding, which has risen by £100,000. If you'd like to contribute to saving our iconic building, any donation, however small, will help! Go to the giving page, where you can give either to general funds or specifically to the project.
Our services are on Sunday and Tuesday mornings at 10am, alternating between holy communion and morning worship. Once a month, usually on the first Sunday, there's a contemporary service at 4pm. We'd love you to join us!
We also value our strong relationship with St Richard's CofE Primary School next door.
Find us:
Ashburnham Rd, Richmond, TW10 7NL
Contact us:
By phone:
02085461438
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