2017 Resilience Heritage project
We’re grateful to the Heritage Lottery Fund for awarding us a grant of just under £50,000 to assess our readiness for undertaking a major redevelopment project. We commissioned six vital pieces of work to help us learn about our organisation and about our community, and to help us prepare and develop the project.
We commissioned:
An Organisational Resilience survey – to look at how our church is structured and governed, and to help us understand what changes would be needed for the future.
A Community Consultation – to listen to the views of people in our neighbourhood and to understand local needs.
A Business Plan Options report – to help us think about the long-term financial viability of the church, and how we can ensure we have a sustainable future.
A Fundraising Options report – to help us develop new strategies for generating the resources needed for a major project as well as the ongoing operations of the church.
A Heritage Impact Assessment – to understand the key heritage and conservation issues that need to be considered when planning building redevelopment works.
An Environmental Audit – to think about how we can reduce our carbon footprint, and take the opportunity of redevelopment to create a greener and more environmentally-friendly future.
We also appointed a Project Manager, a Project Intern, and an Architect to help us undertake this work.