Community impact
One parish, six small wards, a quiet web of long acquaintance.
Great Barr Church Lands works in one place. The Ecclesiastical Parish of Great Barr sits across the boundary between Sandwell and Birmingham, and we have neighbours in Newton, Hamstead, Pheasey, Aldridge, Streetly, Walsall and beyond. This page maps the small impact we make and the partners who make it with us.
Above · The south churchyard in early spring, 2026.
Impact, 2024
Numbers in proportion to a small, faithful trust.
Worshippers
62
Average Sunday attendance at St Margaret's, 2024 electoral roll.
Burial enquiries
183
Family-history requests answered through the Burial Records project.
Volunteer hours
1,420
Logged hours across mowing, ringing, transcription and stewarding.
Funerals supported
14
From the parish, with grave-marking and headstone permission help.
Where the work happens
Six wards, one church.
The Ecclesiastical Parish of Great Barr is small in modern map terms: it stretches from the lower slopes of Barr Beacon across to Hamstead in the south and Newton in the east. The trust's beneficiary geography is exactly this area, as set down in the 1891 Scheme.
Great Barr
St Margaret's, the church itself
The seat of the parish; site of every Sunday service.
Hamstead
South of the church
Home to several of our volunteer mowers and our oldest electoral roll member.
Newton
East of the church
Long association with the trust through the Wittall family bequest of 1953.
Pheasey
North-east of the church
Where the parish clerk lives; where most Friday pew sheets are printed.
Aldridge
North of the church
Home of two of our most regular bell-ringers and of the stonemason on the Fabric Fund roll.
Streetly
West-north-west
A small village whose families have come to St Margaret's for evensong since the 1960s.
Partners on the record
A short list of named organisations we work with.
The Parochial Church Council of St Margaret's
Charity 5005930 — the sole beneficiary of grants made by this trust.
The Lichfield Diocesan Board of Finance
Custodian trustee under the 1966 Variation Scheme; provides annual property advice.
Churches Conservation Trust
Partnered on the 2008 east window programme; consulted on the 2026 leadwork brief.
Historic England
Listed-building consent partner for all consequential fabric work at St Margaret's (Grade II*).
Allchurches Trust
Two small fabric grants since 2018; an occasional partner on furnishings work.
Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council
Local authority partner on the Burial Records project and the autumn leaf-clearance scheme.
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