The church has established a Project Group comprising the minister and his wife, the church Treasurer and from the fellowship, two men with building and engineering backgrounds, plus one of the Deacons with a local authority/district councillor background.

They are also being advised by Charles Curnock who led the Footprint Project at Bath Abbey. An architect, who will manage the project has been engaged together with reports from a structural engineer and quantity surveyor.

Following the visit of the surveyor the church has learnt that they are needing to achieve significant funding due to the level of work needed. However, we are trying to phase the work by dealing with the church initially at a cost of some £350,000.

The costing above relates to the required work on the Sanctuary and includes, the roof, the lath and plaster ceiling, a safety net under that and a suspended ceiling with updated lights to save energy and also work to the exterior of the building. Plus, secondary glazing to help with the energy saving aims.

There will, in addition be a need for new carpet, electrical work plus sound and
projection system update. That is included in the above figure.

We then have to look towards the refurbishment of the ancillary rooms including the kitchen and foyer/passageway and the phased costs for that amount to circa £53,000.

Finally, the refurbishment and modernisation of the toilets will be circa £30,000.

The church is also exploring the viability of erecting solar panels on the roof of one of the ancillary rooms to make itself more eco-friendly and of course to save energy costs.