New church wing built to serve a wider community

First published in News by Matt Oliver, Reporter covering North Oxford, Jericho and Summertown. Call me on 01865 425498

FINISHING touches are being made to a twostorey church extension that will create a busy community hub for parishioners.

Congregation members at St Andrews Church, in Linton Road, Oxford, raised more than 2m for the scheme, called the Jubilee Project.

It has been designed by Grove Street architecture firm MEB Design and will add a new hall, meeting spaces, youth rooms, creche, kitchen, caf area and offices.

The church gained planning permission in May 2012 and construction began in January 2014.

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Committee members hope it will be ready for use by the end of this month.

Committee treasurer Andrew Downs said: The new building will enable us to do lots of things better than we previously could.

In particular, we want to open up to the wider community and encourage outside groups to use the facilities more. We are also excited about being able to do more for young people.

There is often an image of churches as stuffy places with ageing populations, but here we are trying to involve young people and include them in the leadership.

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