Ormside, St. James is in the process of providing a mini-kitchen and accessible toilet facilities at the church. For this, a water supply and drainage have been installed in the church and the former hearse house. Woodwork, plumbing and lime plastering are being done in the hearse house ready for the toilet, basin etc to be fixed. There will also be a baby change unit. The kitchen, enclosed within an oak cabinet, should be in place before the end of this year. There must also be a resin bound path round to the hearse house, matching the new one up to the church door. We have received a large grant is towards all this work. We are extremely grateful to the National Churches Trust for awarding it to us on behalf of the Headley Trust
Ormside, St. James is in the process of providing a mini-kitchen and accessible toilet facilities at the church. For this, a water supply and drainage have been installed in the church and the former hearse house. Woodwork, plumbing and lime plastering are being done in the hearse house ready for the toilet, basin etc to be fixed. There will also be a baby change unit. The kitchen, enclosed within an oak cabinet, should be in place before the end of this year. There must also be a resin bound path round to the hearse house, matching the new one up to the church door. We have received a large grant is towards all this work. We are extremely grateful to the National Churches Trust for awarding it to us on behalf of the Headley Trust
If you have visited our church, you will have noticed that it is very old, in fact it is one of the oldest in Cumbria.Restoration work planned for the C13th. tower was completed in November. The stonework on the north side that was bulging has been made safe. A new, more effective, guttering system has been put in, with new drainage to make the walls and site of the tower drier. We await the bill, but will be helped to meet it by generous grants received from The Prince of Wales’s Charitable Foundation The Jill Franklin Trust (two donations) The Benefact Trust and one from the Wolfson Trust, offered via The National Churches Trust, which we will be able to claim when the bill is paid. For all of these we are most grateful. We have two more projects in mind at the moment.1. As well as the necessary repair of the tower, we are going to install a small kitchen, sufficient for making hot drinks, and a toilet on the north side of the church, having in mind the shortage of public toilets in the village.2. We are also going to put in an amplification system, with speakers and a discreetly installed induction loop. It may include the option of outside speakers for occasions when the congregation overflows the church, but that will depend upon cost.In recent times it has been found that visitors seldom carry much cash, and so we took the step of installing a ConnecTin, which makes giving relatively painless!If you didn’t notice the device and are kind enough to want to donate now from a distance, you could use the BACS system. Our bank details are as follows:Account name: Parochial Church Council of Ormside Sort Code: 30-98-97 Account Number: 77895362
