South Oxford church gets close to revamp dream

South Oxford church gets close to revamp dream

11:20am Sunday 17th June 2012 in News By Andrew Ffrench

COMMUNITY groups who use a South Oxford church are celebrating after a major grant brought them closer to a 500,000 revamp.

Following a 75,000 grant this week from environmental body Wren, a total of 430,000 has now been raised towards the total needed to renovate St Lukes Church, in Canning Crescent.

Vicar the Rev Jane Sherwood said the project would now definitely go ahead, and she expected construction work to begin early next year.

She said: This is fantastic news and we are now only about 70,000 away from our target.

The tenders for the contract will come back in early July for the extension and the renewal of the existing building.

We will be taking everything out apart from the timber frame and the foundations.

The building functions as a community centre as well as a church and is used almost every day of the week by childrens groups and mums and toddler groups, as well as for arts events.

This is a very well-used public space and we think the renovation is vital for the local area.

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