CASE STUDIES
All Saints Woodford Wells – Community Café
A successful local café development between the original church building and its halls, which provides a good income for the church community and helps secure its future.
Ealing Green Church – Re-ordered Worship Area
The reordering of the main church sanctuary, arrival spaces and back of house has allowed this church to be used seven days a week and has doubled church attendance on Sundays.
Jimmy’s Cambridge – Innovative new homes for the homeless
22 new homes built to provide supported living for people who have experienced homelessness in Cambridge. They first opened in June 2022 with Allia and the New Meaning Foundation on land provided by a local church.
London City Mission in Bermondsey – Apartments and Community Centre
18 one- and two-bedroom key worker apartments built over four floors above a new, state of the art community centre, replacing a previous two-storey community centre.
Oxford Night Shelter – Doctors’ Surgery and Shelter
An overnight shelter for the homeless, with an adjacent doctors’ surgery, developed over four floors on the site of a previous two-storey night shelter which was demolished.
St Johns URC and Shaftesbury House
A care home developed as part of a larger project conceived by the church to replace and fund its dilapidated building with new facilities. Both new church and care home are built alongside sheltered housing and other communal facilities.