The UK Government has opened a consultation targeting ‘people responsible for looking after ‘any place of worship that occupies a listed building’, as part of an evaluation of the Listed Places of Worship Grant Scheme.
Harlow Consulting writes:
This questionnaire is aimed at people responsible for looking after any place of worship that occupies a listed building. It is being conducted by Harlow Consulting on behalf of the Department for Culture, Media and Sport, as part of an evaluation of the Listed Places of Worship Grant Scheme. This grant scheme is funded by DCMS and enables listed places of worship to reclaim VAT paid on certain kinds of repair, maintenance and alteration works.
The questionnaire will ask you some basic information about your place of worship, its finances and its condition, then about whether your place of worship has benefited from the Listed Places of Worship Grant Scheme. It may make it easier to complete the questionnaire if you have relevant information available. For example, we will ask for an approximate idea of recent expenditure on your building and about your experience (if applicable) of the scheme.
If you have this information to hand, we would expect it to take around 15-20 minutes to complete all the questions.
Please note that, as far as possible, we will only ask you questions that we think are relevant to you. If your place of worship has benefited from the scheme, we will ask more about how and what impacts it has had. If your place of worship hasn’t benefited, we’d like to understand more about why it hasn’t. For this reason, question numbers may not follow in direct sequence. In all cases, we will ask around twenty-five questions, of which the majority are short answer, multi-choice or rating-scale questions. We have also included some free text responses, so that can tell us any additional things you think we should know about the Listed Places of Worship Grant Scheme.
You will be able to ‘save’ and return to the survey, should you need to do so. The survey will be open for completion until the end of 25 March, so please ensure you submit your response by then.
If you have any questions about this research please contact Jose Seisdedos at DCMS jose.seisdedos@dcms.gov.uk or Dr James Legard at Harlow Consulting, jlegard@harlowconsulting.co.uk.
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The Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) is the data controller for personal data collected through this survey. DCMS has appointed Harlow Consulting as a data processor to carry out this survey. DCMS will not directly receive your personal data and will only receive anonymised data in reports….
