The Marshal Beresford Fund and Church Fabric Fund are held towards the building or repair of churches or chapels. The grants from the Marshal Beresford Fund and Church Fabric Fund are allocated half-yearly in April and November.
Completed application forms must be returned to the Representative Church Body by either 1st March or 1st October for the relevant half-year. If a parish is awarded a grant, it will be allocated from either the Marshal Beresford Fund or the Church Fabric Fund and not from both funds.
Grants are usually not allocated towards a project until the half-year after the proposed completion date for the works relevant to the grant application.
Application Forms are available from: Mr Ian Walshe, Property Department, Representative Church Body, Church of Ireland House, Church Avenue, Rathmines, Dublin 6, D06 CF67. (Tel. 00353-1-4125619, Email. ian.walshe@rcbdub.org)
The next deadline for receipt of applications is 1st March 2016.