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.
