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Our church is committed to welcoming children, nurturing them in our faith and making church involvement attractive to them. To do so, we need to offer warm, comfortable accommodation suitable for fun and productive activities.

However, we have outgrown our building!

 

The Keys Appeal is raising money both to extend our church meeting room, provide a kitchen and new toilets, and also to refurnish the west end of the church.

On a Sunday morning, fifty and more children under 11 years old meet in four different groups. Although accommodation is adequate for our Sunday School, aged three to six, this is true of no other group:
 

The Junior Quiz Group (aged seven and eight years) meets in a cramped and cold lobby area, where they are constantly disturbed by those using the toilets. There is no room for tables for drawing or writing;
The Senior Quiz Group (aged nine and ten years) meets in the tiny Vicar’s Vestry where there is no room even for chairs. As with the Junior Group, noise has to be kept to a minimum to avoid disturbing those in the church;
The Crèche meets under the tower in an unfriendly area. A marble tomb restricts the space safely available; any noise generated travels directly into the church.

In addition, other church groups are limited by a lack of accommodation. In a survey, only 4% of church groups stated that current facilities fully met their needs – including the adult church groups. Here are some examples. S.P.Y.S., our youth group, has no suitable space in which to meet. The Choir, currently growing year by year and with some fifty members, thirty-six of whom are under eighteen years old, is also restricted by lack of space. The complete lack of kitchen facilities has also limited the activity of many church groups and events.

 

Other work wanted in the building:
 

At the west end of the church itself, there is inadequate notice-board space, no permanent home for the parish library, no facilities for serving after-service refreshments other than by bringing in tables; the area is also at present unattractive in comparison with the rest of the building. We want to decorate the whole of the church to keep it a worthy place of worship;
We will soon be obliged by law to provide toilet facilities for disabled people. The proposed work will help to meet these needs.
 

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