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PALMERS SUPPORT FINANCIAL

THE LOTTERY BID UPDATE

The PCC hopes to lodge a fresh bid St Laurence’s went into 2022 with its
with the National Lottery Heritage finances in a healthier position than at
Fund later this month, with a decision any other time this millennium – a
expected in the summer. The previous huge achievement made possible by
bid was a victim of the first lockdown. 4-5 years of hard work and very

A substantial component of the funding careful financial management, especially
being sought will be to enable during the Covid-19 pandemic. While

restoration work to be carried out on the church was closed in 2020 income
the East Window and on the Ten from congregational giving, visitor
Commandments Window. donations, tower visits, church hirings,
votive candles and shop sales
If the bid is successful, the project will plummeted, unlike expenditure.
take several years to complete. The
Ludlow Palmers have pledged to make a Recovery in 2021, helped by the
grant, in the initial phase, towards the Goodbox for cash-less giving and an

cost of the restoration of a trial panel exceptional performance by the Shop
from the Ten Commandments Window. in the run-up to Christmas, has been
This exploratory work will be used impressive but much remains to be
both as a feasibility study for the full- done.
scale operation and for publicity
purposes in further fund-raising.

The next talk in our regular Thursday
series (postponed from last October)

will be given on 17 February by Dr
Dominique Shembry, National Trust
House Manager at The Vyne in
Hampshire. Appositely, Dominique’s
talk, ‘Let the light in’, will be about
engaging the public in a major

conservation project. Her model will
be the recent two-three year-long
project for the complete re-roofing of
The Vyne. As usual (and pandemic
permitting), the talk will be at 4.00 pm

at the Methodist Church in Broad
Street; entrance £5.00.

Ian Marshall (Chair)

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