A community space and arts centre that faced closure when the building’s owner put it up for sale have secured their future after raising an astonishing £470,000 to buy the building.
The Zion Community Space has been an important hub for people in the area since it opened more than 12 years ago in the former Zion Church building at the bottom of Bishopsworth Road in Bedminster Down.
The space is an arts hub and cafe, and has a wide range of community groups and uses, but when the building’s owner put it up for sale, they gave the team that run the space the opportunity to come up with the money and buy it before it went onto the open market.