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Fantastic Funding Update!
National Lottery Funding Helping Us Grow as a 7-Day-a-Week Community Hub We’re delighted to share that we’ve been awarded funding from The National Lottery Community Fund to help us continue and expand our work here in the heart of the community. This grant allows us to expand the role of our Caretaker Lee to recognise the amazing work he does with our growing community of volunteers as well as all he does to ensure that we can keep our doors…
Building Together – Reflecting on Year One of the project to develop Holy Nativity
Reflecting on our project at the end of its first Year. Jo recently spoke to North Halifax Partnership about the impact a year of funding for new roles and working with new partners has had on all we do here at Holy Nativity. We can’t wait to see what happens next; both with the building and with this amazing community.
Help us design a community church for the future
On the 5th of April we will be launching the next stage of our plan to develop Holy Nativity Church Building for the next 70 years of Life with God here in Mixenden. We want as many people as possible to have their say about how they’d like their church to look as well as what they’d like their church to be and so we are inviting children in school years 0 – 6 to join in and design us…
More Building updates!
Following on from the big March clear out and the creation of the new church office we’ve been doing even more to improve the back stage facilities here at Holy Nativity. For such a busy and active church, we really struggle for storage, and thanks to the UKSPF grant and some help from community partners it’s been great to see progress on making everything more organised and easy to use. Starting with the vestry – where all the items for…
Meet Our New Caretaker!
Thanks to funding from the United Kingdom Shared Prosperity Fund (UKSPF)* Holy Nativity is embarking on a three year project to develop our church building and expand the activities and community services that we provide. Holy Nativity turns 70 this year and the building has been at the heart of the community for all of that time, being originally funded by public subscription and arriving as a ‘flat pack’ church back in 1954. The funding enables us to have two…
Making Progress With The Building!
It’s been a busy first month for our development manager and a willing bunch of volunteers from the church and the local community! We’ve already had a big clear out, and what was once a storage cupboard and cluttered staircase … Is now a fully functioning church office ! It’s been hard work but we’ve had some fun along the way. We found loads of fascinating artifacts that tell the story of the past 70 years at Holy Nativity and…
A New Role For a Familiar Face
Thanks to funding from the United Kingdom Shared Prosperity Fund (UKSPF)* Holy Nativity is about to embark on a three year project to develop our church building and expand the activities and community services that we provide. Holy Nativity turns 70 this year and the building has been at the heart of the community for all of that time, being originally funded by public subscription and arriving as a ‘flat pack’ church back in 1954. The funding will enable us…