Fundraising Campaign - St Catherine’s Church, Wickford

 

Fundraising Campaign - St Catherine’s Church, Wickford

Due to the long dry summer of 2022, the foundations of the NW corner of St Catherine’s Church subsided. This caused large cracks to appear in the walls.

 
In 2023, we completed Phase 1 of our campaign involving safety and weather protection work costing £20,000, with funds raised by donations, events and grants. In 2024 we began Phase 2 involving groundwork investigations and design of an underpinning solution. This will cost £13,560 and is essential to design a long-term solution.

Phase 3, for which we are now beginning to raise funds, will be when the church is underpinned.

If you wish to contribute, please use the QR Code below or go to https://givealittle.co/c/CXlEMNUoerIeTUtbQmvYS to donate online. Send cheques to Wickford and Runwell PCC to The Rectory, 120 Southend Road, Wickford SS11 8EB or phone 07803 562329/email jonathan.evens@btinternet.com for bank details for a bank transfer.

We are very grateful for all the support we have received to date whether through individual donations, fundraising events or grant funding awards. This project has been supported by: Benefact Trust, Friends of Essex Churches Trust, Listed Places of Worship Grant Scheme, Minor Repairs & Improvements Grants via Diocese of Chelmsford, and National Churches Trust.

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Sofia Gubaidulina - Offertorium.

Wickford & Runwell Team Ministry: Recent grant awards

The Essex Echo have just covered the recent award of a grant from the UKSPF Feasibility Fund to our Parish for a feasibility study to explore the possibility of using St Andrew's Church as a cultural and heritage centre for Wickford, in addition to the services and other activities that currently happen there. See https://www.echo-news.co.uk/news/24775666.wickford-church-hoping-transform-heritage-centre/.

 
As a Parish, we have also been successful in gaining grants for groundwork investigations at St Catherine’s Church (from Friends of Essex Churches, National Churches Trust, and Minor Repairs and Improvements Grants). Additionally, we have been awarded funds by the National Lottery Community Fund to begin work to create a Community Wellbeing Garden at St Andrew's. This work is primarily to make the garden area fully accessible.

In 2023, the Echo covered our fundraising campaign for work on St Catherine's Church due to subsidence (https://www.echo-news.co.uk/.../23223658.st-catherines.../). We completed Phase 1 of this project in 2023, having raised £20,000 (including grants from the Benefact Trust and The Listed Places of Worship Grant Scheme - see https://www.echo-news.co.uk/news/24016113.government-grant-fund-repairs-south-essex-churches/). Since then we have been fundraising for Phase 2 of the project, which involves groundwork investigations that will enable a means of underpinning the church to be designed. Fundraising will then begin for Phase 3 of the project which will involve underpinning the church building.

We are very grateful for all funds raised including individual donations and monies raised through fundraising events, many of which have been supported by music groups and choirs.

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Eva Romanakova - You'll Never Walk Alone.