Dear All,
I hope you are all well and enjoying the mini heatwave – let’s
get the churches open as much as possible to offer people a nice cool refuge!
As always, firstly welcome to new volunteers this month.
Britanny Bishop and Charlotte Pain join us at St John’s. Britanny will be
helping with some of the team leader responsibilities and Charlotte will be
joining the Tuesday team, with a particular remit to try to engage visitors
with drawing the church!
Gerardo Ferreyro Salvador, an architect from Spain in Bristol on
a volunteer exchange programme as part of Bristol Green Capital will be working
with us until the end of July to help us draw up a proposal for regenerating
the fountain head of St John’s conduit on Quay street. Welcome to you all!
Have your say / find out more about the St John’s project.
On the 30th July the Conservation Church (aka the
Gateway) project team will hold a drop in session from 4 – 7pm, with a
presentation and group gathering for those who can attend at 6pm, for CCT
volunteers to find out more about the project and give feedback.
We should have some of the final designs from the architects to
share by this point and other important bits of paperwork.
Nibbles and refreshments will be available and we’ll try to find
a way to share this info and for you to have your say if you can’t attend the
meeting too. Please indicate your attendance by replying to this email.
St John’s Research Team
Please find attached the minutes from the last meeting of the
research group as compiled by Keith Stenner. Keith chairs the research group
and will be able to answer any questions you might have about the minutes: keithstenner@blueyonder.co.uk
Archive footage of St John’s
Check out this amazing early film of St John’s, which Emma has
found. I wish I could drive my car straight through the archway like that!
Social and cultural
significance of St John’s
You will all be contacted
shortly by Nick Ellis who is voluntarily helping us with some documentation
assessing the social and community significance of St John’s church, which will
form an important part of our funding bids. Message from him below:
As well as volunteering for
the St John's Research Group, I am currently a student with Heriot-Watt
Univeristy in Edinburgh working on a dissertation to complete an MSc in
Building Conservation. My thesis is exploring heritage values, management and
community participation in charity-owned historic buildings and places. I would
very much like to include CCT Volunteers perspective on volunteering
for a heritage organisation in the charity sector and would be grateful if
they would complete a survey. The CCT has kindly donated a prize
for those responding to the survey; submitting a completed survey
will automatically be entered in a prize draw to win a bottle of wine and
chocolates. Questionnaires to be received by 24th July and prize draw w/c 27th
July.
Volunteer team outings
On Monday we had our first volunteer team summer outing to St
Mary’s Church Fairford. You can read more about our visit on the blog I’ve set
up for St John’s here.
If any of you would like to contribute to the blog you can find
instructions attached. It’s linked to the same google account as you should use
for logging in to the online rota for the church. The next outing is on the 29th
July (note change of date) to Clevedon Court. Do let me know if you’d like to
come.
Bristol Open doors day.
Last year we had 1823 visitors and raised nearly £400 between St
John’s and St Thomas’ on DODs, our busiest day of the year. We are signed up
again and to open our doors on Saturday the 12th September, which
will be with us before we know we know it! We’ll need as many of you as
possible to be available to help on the day so please reply to let me know your
availability for the day (we’ll probably break up into two shifts, morning or
afternoon) and preference for being in the upper church or the crypt. If any of
you could help Bob with St Thomas’ too that would be massively appreciated!
Other Upcoming events (all at
St John’s unless otherwise stated)
Bristol hippodrome choir
perform Cole Porter songs in upper church. 09/07/15
15:00-21:00
Bell-ringing
Training morning
11/07/15 10:00-12:30
St John’s project meeting
(@St Thomas’ Church)
13/07/15 11:00 – 15:00
St John’s Research
meeting
15/07/15
11:00-13:00
Bell-ringing
Peal attempt 18/07/15 15:00-18:00
Concert in
crypt Phurpa. Tibetan monk
chanting 21/08/15
times TBC
Hands on Conservation
Day
22/07/15
11:00–12:00
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Ed McGregor
Volunteering Officer, West
DL: 01179 309 652
Mobile: 07872 502 118
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