Our first bid for funding has been successful. The Church of England’s Church and Community Fund has awarded us £15,000. We bid on the basis that the process of self-building will increase community cohesion and enhance the church’s mission. We need to spend the allocation within two years. Thank you CCF – we’re making a good start!
Find out more about the Church & Community Fund here.
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We’ve just heard that we’ve been shortlisted to receive £12,000 from the M&S Community Energy Fund – and it could be more if our project is chosen to be one of their flagships. We are still to receive details on the next stage of the project, but in brief, we will be invited to set…
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…
At the end of January we laid out barrier fencing to show on site where the Hub will go. We were thrilled that our drawings on paper actually fitted where we thought they would on the ground! Over the following weeks the storms blew everything down, which was amazing. I thought the holes in barrier…
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…
Watch our inspiring new film made by our volunteer builder, Javier Rodriguez Sanchez. If you’d like to get involved, contact us