User Friendly

A lot of work has been carried out recently to make disabled toilet facilities in the main building and ramps have been made to both outside entrances. Having these facilities has made the Church more 'user-friendly' and we are now able to extend the use/hire of the church on a wider scale.

We have had a new P.A. system installed with a 'loop system' and also installed a new fitted kitchen which was given to us by Annitsford Church who had to have their church demolished.
Repair work continues around the building and it has been re-decorated.

We have recently added a porch to the side of the main building at the entrance to the extension, making more room to move between the two parts and the entrance hall. We have also had new outside doors fitted to the main building.

We applied for grants and were successful in obtaining £500 from Northumberland County Council Small Grants Department. We also applied to The Coalfields Regeneration Trust and received £4,350. This Trust was set up in September, 1999 to help tackle the social and economic problems faced by coalfield communities in England, Scotland and Wales. Between September 1999 and March 2002, the Trust spent £50m on 680 projects, and is planning to spend at least another £50m by March 2005. (We've been asked to include this last paragraph whenever we mention this grant).