Making Progress With The Building!

Making Progress With The Building!

It’s been a busy first month for our development manager and a willing bunch of volunteers from the church and the local community!

We’ve already had a big clear out, and what was once a storage cupboard and cluttered staircase …

An empty square room with no carpet, there is striped wallpaper on the bottom portion of the wall and diamond patterened wallpaper above
A view from the top of some stairs, a woman stands at the bottom lifting a pile of boxes off the top of a rusty cupboard, there is a bucket of stand and several metal stands on the stairs
Stairs with carpet half rolled off it
A blank wall and the bottom of a stairwell with some rolled up carpet piled on it
A view up some stairs from the bottom showing no carpet or clutter
A stairway with no carpet
A small room stacked floor to ceiling with boxes and metal cupboards

Is now a fully functioning church office !

A white painted room with empty shelves, a desk and office chair on a grey carpet
A room with an orange office chair and empty shelves on a grey carpet, there is a dark window behind them and white walls
An office with shelves, a printer, desk and office chair

It’s been hard work but we’ve had some fun along the way. We found loads of fascinating artifacts that tell the story of the past 70 years at Holy Nativity and we can’t wait to go through them as part of our anniversary celebrations. Michelle even discovered some family history among the archive of parish magazines – being a churchwarden runs in the family !

A man on a yellow ladder holding a light fitting against a white ceiling
A man in a blue hoody standing behind a yellow ladder holding a paint roller and painting a wall white, he is looking at the camera and smiling
A plastic box full of A5 folded paper magazines in various colours and designs
Plates of breakfast pastries on a black kitchen counter
Plates of sponge cake and mugs with the back of a volunteer wearing a black hoodie that says holy nativity on the back
A woman leans against an old metal filing cabinet holding a paper magazine

And don’t worry – nothing went to waste, lots of church history is now packed in boxes and waiting be sorted out as we plan for the next 70 years and anything we did throw out went to a good home!

A pile of old school chairs, an old childs bike and rusty metal cages all on a wooden floor leaning against some cupboards.
A wooden floored room with stacks of old school chairs in read and some rusty pieces of metal framing
three men standing on the street, one is leaning on a green fence, another is speaking to him wearing a red bobble hat the third is listening. They are standing in front of a white scrap van with green writing on it.

We want to say a massive thank you to all the volunteer team who gave up time over three full weekends to get us to this stage. All of this is possible thanks to the funding we have received from the UK Shared Prosperity Fund, and an extra special thank you goes to Destiny Flooring who donated our lovely new office carpet.

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2 Comments

  1. Kath

    I wish I could have come and helped, I love a good clear out. Sorting stuff makes my autistic brain happy. Shame I can’t do it for myself 🤣

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