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Work has started on the Community Centre at Newlyn Trinity Methodist
Church, after more than seven years of fund raising. The three-quarters-of-a-million
pound project will convert the former Newlyn Trinity Sunday School
into a multi-purpose community centre.
The minister, the Rev Julyan Drew, said this week that he was very
pleased that all the funding was finally in place.
"This is the result of sustained hard work and commitment
from many people. Over the next months we will be able to watch
all that hard work come to fruition in the shape of a new centre
for the use of the whole community.
"Trinity Church is grateful to all our funders large and small,
local and further afield, for their marvellous generosity and to
the Newlyn Fish Industry Forum for its support. Fundraising continues
as we seek to make this a facility for all Newlyn to be proud of.
"We are working with a number of partner organisations to
ensure that when it opens the new centre will make a real and positive
difference to the lives of Newlyn residents of all ages."
The project, part of the Newlyn regeneration scheme, will create
a main multi-use community hall, meeting rooms, kitchen and music
room, all arranged so that several different organisations can use
the building at the same time.
Funding has come from many sources, including the Big Lottery,
Penwith Council, Jobcentre Plus Employment Projects Fund, Neighbourhood
Renewal, the Methodist Church and more than £200,000 - the
largest amount - through local fundraising.
The project is due to be completed in the autumn next year.
Architects for the project are Poynton Bradbury Wynter Cole of
St Ives and the contractor is John Nicholls Builders.
Anyone wishing to know more about the plans for the centre and
the facilities it will contain can contact Mr Drew on 01736 364707.
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