Author: Ian

  • £2000 awarded by East Midlands Airport

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    It has been a quiet summer, but we’ve been busy beavering away at grant applications. We received notification on Monday that we have been offered a grant of £2000 from the East Midlands Airport Community Fund towards the costs of our kitchen refit. This wonderful encouragement brings us closer still to our target. We are…

  • Nottinghamshire Historic Churches Trust Grant

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    More good news – the Nottinghamshire Historic Churches Trust have made a grant offer to us of £3,500 towards our church refurbishment. We are very grateful for their generosity. This brings down the amount remaining to be raised to £62,500. We are making progress. We have a couple of other grant applications in the works.

  • Grant Awarded by Congregational And General Trust

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    Wonderful news! We have just been awarded a very generous grant of £15,000 by the Congregational and General Charitable Trust for our refurbishment project, for which we are very grateful indeed. This is a great start to our fund-raising. With the money already raised by the church, this leaves £66,000 still to raise.

  • The Art of Grant Applications

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    We have just heard that our grant application to the Garfield Weston Anniversary Fund was not successful. So it is time to start working hard on finding other sources of funding. We are putting together a list of bodies that provide grants of various sizes for this kind of work. Making grant applications seems to…

  • Living the New Life

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    At our new year’s day service, Judith challenged us to read Colossians 3:1-4, 12-17 every month for a year. Following our leaders’ vision day last week, where we felt God was calling us to “go deeper”, this scripture seems to take on a renewed significance for us.

  • “Going Deeper”

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    Last Saturday (21 July) the leaders spent an away day at the Holy Cross Convent in Bunny to think about our church vision. We’ve been there before for leaders’ away days and it’s a lovely venue. But we weren’t there just to enjoy the peace and quiet (even if that was one benefit of being…

  • Refurbishment Progress

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    Sorry for the lack of updates on our refurbishment project. Quite a lot has been happening over the last six months.

  • Certificate of Authorisation Received!

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    Today we received our Certificate of Authorisation! Praise God! It has been a long and bumpy road to this point, so it is a matter of great relief that we now have our plans approved and can get on with the next stage, which is put the work out to tender and get some quotations.

  • Pressing On Towards Refurbishment

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    We have been thinking hard about how to respond to the objections to our refurbishment scheme and what we can do to move forwards. We have reluctantly come to the conclusion that if we do not agree to retain the rearmost three rows of pews then the refurbishment simply will not happen.

  • A Setback

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    Very disappointing news regarding our listed building application, I am afraid. We heard a couple of days ago that the Listed Buildings Advisory Committee have decided not to approve our application as it stands.