To a limited extent, the churches sometimes receive a bit of government funding for these activities (food banks, help for the homeless, etc.). It certainly do

To a limited extent, the churches sometimes receive a bit of government funding for these activities (food banks, help for the homeless, etc.). It certainly doesn't cover costs but it can make the difference between being able to do something and not being able. However that is drying up. In my town, we used to run overnight accommodation and two meals a day for the homeless for 3-4 months in winter until COVID stopped that in March 2020. We had a grant via the local council but from central funds to cover the employment of the administrator (a very necessary cost!). We can't restart because the policy is now against it and that funding has gone. I don't want to frame this as "Tories Bad!" - in fact there are some arguments for stopping it, but on balance I think that it is still needed. Another issue is that church people tend not to be rich, and are dying off from old age with few people replacing them. We have to pick what we can still do with increasingly limited funds and people. Btw, while I am liberal/left, many of the people working at the coal face are conservatives. I think one has to distinguish between Tory MPs and Tory voters, some of whom are socially liberal (though they would be offended to be described as such).