Churches Tourism Association

Resources for churches including:

• Open Churches Advice Leaflet
• Mission: Visitors - a guide for churches wanting to raise their profile for tourism
• Ministry of Welcome
• Encouraging Visitors on a Spiritual Journey - simple. practical suggestions

Download these from here

Visitor Toolkit and other resources from St David's Diocese

You are welcome is very useful visitor toolkit to help churches look at their welcome procedures. Excellent checklists.

Divine Inspiration

This site about unlocking churches in Coventry and Warwickshire offers useful guidance that could be used by churches in Worcestershire and Dudley. Downloadable resources can be found here

North Yorkshire Churches Tourism Initiative

An example of what can be done in partnership with churches. Treasures Revealed is their latest project.

The Churches Conservation Trust

Lots of information about churches to visit.

Friends of Friendless Churches

Go West Teme Valley Project

Go West is an association of volunteers concerned about the well being of the countryside. Linked to the Worcester Agricultural and Rural Life Chaplaincy.

A Church Near You

Find Anglican churches in England. Also has a parish finder service which uses parish boundaries supplied by the Church Commissioners.

Inspired!

Details of the English Heritage Inspired! campaign.

Dudley Tourism

Dudley Borough Council's tourism and travel pages

Worcestershire Tourism

The Visit Worcestershire website

Black Country Tourism

The official Black Country Tourism website

Insights

Insights is the tourism marketing intelligence publication produced by VisitBritain. Designed for tourism professionals, many of the reports have to be paid for but they do include some church and cathedral related documents