Redland church celebrates completion of new church and community halls

The exciting redevelopment of Redland Parish Church halls is almost complete. Local builders, Kitto Construction, are due to hand over the keys to the new halls this month and a number of launch events have been planned to celebrate the opening of the halls.

Designed by Redland-based architects, O’LearyGoss, the three new interconnecting halls can be opened up to form one larger hall seating up to 280. They replace the dilapidated 1950s hall that stood on the site until just a year ago. As well as the new suite of halls, there’s a new fully equipped kitchen, a comfortable welcome/lounge area and new facilities for Lantern Preschool.

Rev. Lucy Nagel, Curate of Redland Parish Church said, “We are so excited about the opening of the new halls at Redland and the fantastic facilities they provide for our church family and for our community. As well as using them for our own community activities, like Lantern Preschool, toddler groups and Redland Education Centre, the halls offer versatile, modern facilities for local people and community groups.

Just under three years ago we launched the re:new project for the redevelopment of our halls and thanks to the amazing generosity of the hundreds of local individuals, families, and businesses and grant-giving bodies who have donated to the appeal; and to the fundraising efforts of many of our congregation, we have already raised over £1.9 million.

We’d like to thank everyone who has donated, fundraised or otherwise supported the project and we would love to invite them to our launch celebrations over the coming weeks.

These include a Service of Dedication with Bishop Mike Hill, Bishop of Bristol at 10am on Sunday 30 October, a concert by Exultate Singers on Wednesday 9 November (featuring specially commissioned music) and an Opening Fair on Saturday 5 November – full details of these and of other launch events are on the church website: www.redland.org.uk

We will start using the halls for church services and activities at the beginning of October and we plan to make them available for hire for regular and one-off events in the new year. We can’t wait to start using these fantastic new halls and to welcoming members of our local community into them.”