A Nottinghamshire church has received additional funding to help its plans of developing a community hub. Building work is set to commence at Balderton Methodist Church, near Newark, which will include the re-roofing, opening-up and upgrading of church buildings.
Additional funding has been approved for the church in the form of a £75,000 grant from FCC Communities Foundation, a not- for- profit business that awards grants for community projects through the Landfill Communities Fund. This grant will also allow the church to incorporate better disabled access into the scheme, which will allow everyone whatever their age or mobility problems to be able to move easily around inside the church buildings.
This means wheelchair users will no longer need to exit the building to move between areas. All members of the community visiting Balderton Methodist Church will soon be able to make use of all the facilities in the building.
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The funding will also be used to alter floor levels and upgrade a 1960’s building to incorporate a café area. This will allow everything to be on one level, and so access will open up between all the rooms in the buildings so that visitors can have safe and easy movement within all the Church's rooms regardless of their mobility level.
Cathy Bates the Family Worker at Balderton Methodist Church believes these alterations to the buildings will make a huge change to how all the rooms in the building can be used by different community groups. She says this project will provide a real boost to the people of Balderton.
She said: "It’s fantastic that FCC Communities Foundation has awarded us this money and we are really looking forward to our buildings changing over the next nine months." Richard Smith, FCC Communities Foundation senior grant manager, added: “We’re delighted to be supporting the improvements at Balderton Methodist Church and pleased our funding will make such a difference to so many users of this great facility.
"FCC Communities Foundation is always happy to consider grant applications for projects that benefit local communities and we’re looking forward to this one having a positive impact very soon.”
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