Heart of the City Project
At St Thomas' Church, Lancaster, we are looking to repair the current church building and replace our existing church centre with a modern, highly efficient and highly flexible number of spaces for use by the church family but also by the local community.
Watch our short film about the Heart of the City Project:
A huge thank you to Jim Cooke who produced this for us.
The latest plans and visuals
Thanks so much for your interest in our building plans, and we are grateful for your support and prayers. Here are the architect's 2019 visuals and plans of our new building.
Visuals:
Plans:
Fundraising:
Our fundraising activities are continuing, and here you can find out about monies raised, as well information about forthcoming events.
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Fundraiser of the month:
Well done to Toby, our Fundraiser of the month! He raised over £200 from his Lent Vegetarian Challenge.
Also, a massive thank you to STY:LE! Rock Solid who raised £175, at their epic Gaming Night, for the Heart of the City Project...
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... and well done to the Onesie Walkers who raised over £600 on their sponsored walk. You can see more photos of the walk here. |
Canamble Sponsored Walk
St. Thomas (Lancaster) to St. Thomas (Garstang) sponsored walk along the Lancaster Canal.
Well done to all the 100 or so walkers who put their best foot forward on our Canamble from St. Thomas Lancaster to Ellel St. Johns (5 milers) or to St. Thomas Garstang (13 milers). What a beautiful and enjoyable walk and extremely well organised, so thanks to the walking group who put the event on. Thanks as well to Booths for donating the bottles of water and to all the cake bakers who kept us well fed along the way.
We have already raised over £3,500 and it's not too late to make donations. Click
here if you would like to do that.
Our service on Sunday at the 11 a.m. service focused on our church family. This photo, on the steps outside church, says it all - what a wonderful church family we have at St. Thomas!
Forthcoming fundraising events being organised by our congregation
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Home-made Raspberry Jam for sale
Hannah is selling Homemade Raspberry Jam as her fundraising - these are £2.50 per jar, and collection/delivery can be arranged. If you would like to order a jar, please let Hannah know by e-mailing hotc@st.tees.org.uk
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Staff Team's Yorkshire Three Peaks Challenge
Good luck to Helen, Craig, Emma, Katharine, and Nic on the staff team, plus Matt (a student on placement), who will be walking the Yorkshire Three Peaks Challenge on 26th June. If you would like to sponsor them, you can give via https://www.give.net/Northern_3_Peaks_HOTC
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Mary-Jayne's afternoon tea fundraiser
Thanks and good luck to Mary-Jayne who is organising this fundraiser for friends and family. We may be asking for donations of cake nearer the time...
Donations for those attending can be made online at https://www.give.net/StTsHeartoftheCity/fundraising - please mark your gift "MJ's afternoon tea".
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Interested in starting your own fundraising initiative?
You can download several templates for your fun fundraising event including:
Use these templates to advertise your event and to help raise funds.
Want to let your donors give money online?
We have set up a Heart of the City account on www.give.net. You can set up a personal giving page on www.give.net by following the instructions in this link: Instructions for setting up a giving page. Why not have a look at the Scamman family's give.net page, to see how your own page might look?
Stuck for Ideas?
Here are some of the creative ideas discussed at our Fundraising evening. With so many ideas to choose from we have decided to focus on a few key events to begin with, such as a themed cinema afternoon and a vintage tea party... but there is nothing to stop you from getting going straight away and organising your own small (or large) event in the community.
Please do share your ideas with us, and let us know if you are running an event and would like help advertising that. Have you checked out our Facebook page yet? This is where we will be sharing photos and write-ups of any fundraising events that have already taken place and we will also advertise future events here. You can also message us directly via the Facebook page if you have any questions about fund-raising.
Please continue to pray for this project and give thanks for those who are giving their time and effort to fundraising in the community.
Progress updates for the Heart of the City Project
Read our latest update on progress with the Heart of the City Project here: June Newsletter.
Heart of The City giving Pledges
Pledges are welcomed at any time throughout this project.
►To download a copy of the pledge form, click on the links below:
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Pledge form