The ‘Building for the Future’ Group has worked over the last year to bring Forward two possible schemes for the reordering of St John’s church. These were presented to the Church community at a meeting in St John’s on Monday 11th July 2023.

Your chance to comment is below:

The video of the presentation on our Facebook page is here

Some background is here

Scheme 4B

The details are here
Estimated costs for both 4B and 7C are here

Scheme 7C

This is the more extensive scheme with seating above the meeting room and kitchenette
The details are here

Below are the results of the 96 returned survey forms

The figures in chart form are available here

The Buildings for the Future Steering group (BTF), will use the consensus revealed below to steer its conversation with the Church Architect over the summer.

Thank you everyone for your responses, and for your offers to be involved

Information from the meetings

These options appraisal plans were prepared by the Architect as blue-sky thinking. They are simply to stimulate ideas. Available here

This is the report to the St John’s District Church Council meeting in January. The presentations expand on this. Available here

Compiled post-it notes from the two meetings are, available here.

Ideas from the first prayer breakfast on 9th April, available here.

Ideas from the second prayer breakfast on 11th June, available here.

Ideas from the evening meeting on 5th July, available here