The Expression of Interest submission the National Lottery Heritage Fund for support to repair the ailing  North Aisle roof, recreate the space underneath and add a new tea station, has been accepted by NLHF, which now enables us to make a formal bid to proceed to the Development Stage. John Bostock (Church Historian) is leading the team, who are all very busy gathering the documentation required for a November 2024 submission. If successful that in turn will begin a process of detailed structural planning for all the work involved, including tendering. This is inevitably a somewhat lengthy process as with all heritage work and will continue through to the Delivery Stage, when the actual work will be finally accomplished.  The National Lottery Heritage Fund also expect the submission to contain plans for new community activities in the flexible space created as part of the Project, hopefully leading to greater use and sustainability of the church building going forward.