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288 Barden Lane

Burnley

Lancashire

BB10 1JA

I write on behalf of St Andrew's Church Community hall, Duke bar, Colne, Road Burnley, Lancashire.

 We are a lively parish with a reasonably supported church, we have taken serving our community and encouraging its cohesion very seriously. The Church community Hall is adjacent to the Church and is used not just by our own sponsored organisations but also by a wide variety of community and family groups.

St Andrew's Church is listed as a grade two listed building which is located by two roads, we are situated on a round about.  Which at times  is used by heavy traffic, some times when you are in the Church/Hall you can feel slight vibrations. 

The Church Hall was built in 1866. and the Church was built in 1867 At present we are having problems with the Church and Church Hall 

The hall is used by the following Which are Beavers, Brownies, and Rainbows, plus we have two sessions of Play & Stay for the toddlers with parents/carers on a Monday & Fridays-between 9am to 11.30am which is very well attended.

After Thursday's 9.30 service to10am, we have tea & toast and a chat with good company.                    After the Sunday service which is from 10am to 11am we then meet up in the church hall for tea/coffee and biscuits. 

The first Wednesday of each month we have a stroke group from 1pm

On a Thursday evening there is a group pf people that use the hall to play music on there bagpipes.

But at the moment we are having major problems as follows.

Repairs to the church Tower on June 2023 we had part repairs carried out to the Church tower at a cost of £6280  although £1080 vat is apparently reclaimable. which took 3 day. After completion I was handed a report of more work required which would take 5 working day's to complete This work would be required by June/July? the cost would be around £12.000.  This work has been arranged for completion in April/June 2024.

On the 20th December we had a storm Pia which flooded the main entrance so the above work has to be carried out as soon as possible. 

The Church boiler has just been replaced in the Hall so now we are back to two boilers that are working the new boiler was fitted in place in the hall.   December at a cost of £3430.

We have a stained glass window on the west side of the Church dated 1896? This is on the west side of the church.   This window is in need of urgent repair I believe that the traffic could have caused this problem (that is my opinion) the cost to repair this window would be around £8.000. the window was a memorial for a Mr Robinson who was the first vicar of St Andrew's for 22 years The window was placed on the west side of the Church in about 1899.

There is also a leak on the church around the vent west part of the nave.  around one of the roof vents the cost to repair would be around £1.300 that’s means that scaffold would cost £800 and the work would cost 250/£300.

Our heating also needs repair not sure of the cost yet but we think it would be around £800 We have just had one repair carried out to the system. We had a large leak, in the Lady Chapel  at a cost of nearly £572.

It just all adds up.  The total cost would be around £23.500. That’s just for the church

After the break-in we have had to carry out repairs around the hall at a cost of about £1.l300. we also had cash stolen plus other items, we have been able to claim on our insurance but we had an excess of £1000.

With donations received  £1.375 from crowd funding, this helped us a great deal to replace items that were stolen plus cash and the repairs

Thank you all very much for all the donations to crowd funding.                                                                Vic Moore Churchwarden 

GOD BLESS

Can you Please Please Please HELP save St Andrew's Church in any way with Donations 

As I have said we are a very poor church but we do our best to help people around Duke bar

We have just got a new vicar, only half time Fr Tim Kaye.

St Andrew’s Church Colne road Burnley Lancashire

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There are 11 parishes in this diocese suffering extreme poverty and we just happen to be one of them.  We've fought to remain open since 1866 and with your help, we can continue to bring the Good News of the Gospel to those who need it the most.

Thank You

Vic Moore churchwarden