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£100k milestone reached!
Thanks to some sacrificial giving and great generosity our Straw Bale fund has now reached over £120,000. That means we’re nearly a third of the way towards our initial fundraising target of £380,000.The figure includes a grant of £15,000 from the Church & Community Fund, but the rest has been mostly given be members of…
Funding Success
We are tremendously excited to announce that the Walcot Foundation has decided to award us £40,000 over two years in recognition that our project will help get young people into work by training them in both “soft” and “hard” skills. Walcot don’t only give money – they also give on-going support. Their application process was…
STRAW BALE COMMUNITY BUILDING IN TULSE HILL
It’s just beginning! Although we’ve been working and praying towards this for nearly 40 years one way or another, we now feel that we’re on the brink of a wonderful venture. Of course we’ve felt like this before, but now we seem to have something that’s both attainable and “right”. On October 21st 2013, the…
Gearing up to Giving Sunday
Inspired by passing the £100k mark, the project team are now working out how to get to £200k! We hope we’ll get a good boost towards this from our Gift Day Sunday on 15 June. In the weeks before this service we will be handing out pledge forms and asking people to prayerfully reflect on…
Pioneering Work
When we set out on this road to build Europe’s First Straw-Bale Church building – and possibly the largest straw-bale community building – it never really occurred to me what it meant to be a pioneer. I just thought, this is it, and we’re getting on with it. Now I know the truth! Hannah Jones…