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DUE TO THE ONGOING COVID-19 PANDEMIC, THE CHURCH BUILDING IS CLOSED FOR WORSHIP AT PRESENT. OPENING TIMINGS WILL BE UPDATED SOON.
Wesley gets grant from Allchurches Trust
Wesley gets grant from Allchurches Trust
Wesley Methodist Church has received a grant of £20,000 from Allchurches Trust for our exciting 84QR Charity and Community hub project. This will enable phase 1, delayed by the pandemic to get started.
84 QR - A charity and community hub for Reading
84 QR - A charity and community hub for Reading
Next to Wesley church stands a building, 84 Queen’s Road (84QR). It was built in the 1890s and was the minister’s manse until the 1960s. After that it was used as offices, then was unoccupied for a time. The first floor was brought back into use in 2011 for church offices, and later a couple of local charities moved in, but the building is still underused.
We have a vision to create a charity and community hub based in this building.
This builds upon what is happening there already. The charities who use the office space now want to develop their activities, and there are other small local charities interested in having space.
So we have created some more offices on the top floor of 84QR, which are now fully occupied.
On the ground floor, we have bigger ambitions:
• A new kitchen.
• The creation of a large, informal meeting room from two rooms. It will have comfortable seating for 50 to 60, soft furnishings, and AV equipment for seminars.
• Overhaul of the third reception room as a smaller meeting place furnished with café-style tables and chairs for refreshments and easy conversation.
• Full access, with a ramped approach to the front door and new toilets for the disabled.
This development will provide space in which our charity partners can have formal and informal meetings. For some, there will be opportunity to provide work experience in running the place.
And there will be community hub programmes, dovetailing into the activities of the charities, such as:
1. A community lunch club with focus on the lonely.
2. Craft activity and ‘knit and natter’ groups.
3. Meeting and social opportunities for our local community.
It is our vision that this 84QR hub will be interlinked with the worship, mission and other activities of the whole church.
It is going to cost money – about £130,000. We have been fund-raising hard and making good progress. Coronavirus has set us back a bit, but we will get there.
For more information about the project, and to support it, contact us at info@wesleychurchreading.org.
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