Welcome Project

Three Meeting Spaces – One Welcome

 

The Welcome Project involves re-developing our physical resources together with a renewed understanding of how to live our faith through practical action to support and serve our community. To enable us to do this in the most effective and accessible way possible, we need to fund significant updates to the church and church hall as well as continue to grow the activities taking place in the church yard.

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​1.  Church Refurbishment

This includes:

Development of a hospitality and welcome area

Organ refurbishment

Enhancement of the bell provision

Development of lavatory provision

Re-plastering and redecoration of the walls of the nave

Restoration of the 19th century decoration scheme in the chancel​​

Replacing of aging and inefficient heating system

 

We need to refurbish the church for current and future generations.

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2.   Church Hall

We already have architect’s plans for a new hall, which will provide a modern and flexible space for hirers, with additional rooms and space for us to offer events and activities to support those at the margins of society. In honour of the prominent Chartists buried in our churchyard, John and Mary Frost, the hall will be renamed the Frost Community Centre to reflect our commitment to social justice.

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3.   Church yard

We want to continue to develop and maintain the churchyard as a place of natural beauty, peace and ecological interest.

 

4.   Funding of our vision

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There are three main ways of raising the funds:

 

The Welcome Project Steering Group and Grants Team are preparing a bid for funding from Heritage Lottery for the church, and we are investigating other sources of funding for hall and churchyard. We need your help to match fund any sources of funding for which we apply.

Selling of our assets in the form of our church house

Fund raising as a community.

You can help by contributing via our Just Giving page, or via our Welcome Project bank account: Sort Code: 306232 Account number: 64788960.

 

If you would like to talk about helping with the project, we would love to hear from you. Please get in touch via hpc.sec@horfieldparishchurch.org.uk

Thank you.