What we want, what we really really want!! 

St John's Church Preservation Group Vision:

1. To restore the beautiful St John's Church to become safe and usable again, to be brought up to modern day standards and to be made into a listed building.

2. We acknowledge that this will always be ongoing work due to the size and age of the structure. Therefore we want to ensure that a strong group of supporters remain in place to ensure the continuity of the work. With reference to this succession planning we especially want to encourage children to be come involved.

 3. To include re-instatement of the stained glass windows and the restoration of the bell tower. The eight St John's Church Bells are no longer there. We want to buy new bells and hear the sound of church bells in Kates Hill once again.

 4. To replace the memorial plaques naming the gallant soldiers who died and restore the War Memorial lychgate .

5. That in due course we want to either restore or replace the church organ.

6. That we want to clean up the graves and the grounds and ensure that the grounds remain clean and tidy.

7. We want St John's Church to be usuable for worship, weddings, baptisms, confirmations and funerals and all other usual church festivals and important dates. We want St John's Church to be available for other community use including education both academic, vocational and non vocational including the historical aspects of the district. We want the church to have a cafe, gift shop, an area for meetings and groups, and to be available for providing entertainment such as concerts, shows and plays. We understand that to make the building multi -usuable the worship area size may have to be reduced. We also feel that St John's Church has a number of unique features that will make it of interest to local tourism and for school educational trips which we intend to encourage and promote.

8. We want to make sure that St John's Church is NEVER threatened with closure again, by keeping in place funding streams and fundraising efforts to ensure that runnning and maintainance costs can be met.

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