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St Peter's TYS2 Community Space

St Peter's TYS2 Community Space

St Peter's Church. Ealing By St Peter's Church. Ealing

St Peter's TYS2 project will transform our uninspiring and inaccessible grounds into a permanent and attractive space for the benefit and enjoyment of our whole community - especially older people.

Ealing Delivery stage

£2,650
pledged of £79,748

Sorry this project was unsuccessful, we did not reach our fundraising goal.

Located on a corner busy with school and commuter traffic and on a major pedestrian route, St Peter’s grounds are tired, inaccessible to the public and prone to anti-social behaviour - meaning that local people lack an attractive and well maintained community space.

In Partnership with horticultural training charity Cultivate London, we therefore intend to landscape and open up St Peter’s grounds - creating a pedestrian route away from the road and an attractive community garden for older people and the wider community. The project will:

• Improve road safety and ease pedestrian traffic - creating a safe route for children, parents and others
• Benefit older people by providing a beautiful and appropriately designed garden with seating areas - enhancing their wellbeing and health
• Develop community cohesion and skills through collaboration on an inspiring neighbourhood project
• Enhance the safety, usability and accessibility of the Church, Hall and grounds.

What we'll deliver:

  • Install energy-efficient floodlighting to highlight the historic of the front Church.
  • Provide notice boards to advertise local activities on the street and outside the Hall.
  • Remove a section of hedge on Montpelier Road and build a path through the grounds to the front of the Church.
  • Remove concrete slabs the front of the Church, installing new paving and creating large planting beds.
  • Renovate the front of the Hall and improve disabled access – enhancing its use as a community resource.
  • Build a paved area at the front of the Hall with electricity and water supply for community events.
  • Provide benches, including seating areas at the front of the Church.

Why it's a great idea:

Supporting Ealing Council's six key priorities, St Peter’s Community Space will:

• Deliver a relatively low cost community asset by rehabilitating an essentially attractive space
• Improve road safety by moving pedestrians away from a busy junction
• Reduce anti-social behaviour by encouraging through flow of pedestrians
• Bring around 50 local people together to deliver and manage a community project
• Provide a space for older people, encouraging social interactions and increasing wellbeing, particularly among those experiencing isolation and depression - supporting Ealing’s strategy for older people
• Provide an external venue to enable the development of a regular over-65s group - improving the wellbeing of older people over through social interaction
• Through our project partners Cultivate London, help to provide 50 young people with vocational skills and experience
• Benefit well over 10,000 users of the space p.a.
• Enhance biodiversity.

Steps to get it done:

  • On-going maintenance will take place by volunteers via regular communal sessions.
  • The project will be delivered by a committee of local people, with extensive community consultation.
  • Components such as removing hedging and planting beds will be carried out by volunteers.
  • Design oversight and major build elements will be undertaken by Cultivate London.
  • Plans will be developed in conjunction with the Diocese of London, our architect, and Ealing Council.

This project is a key strategic initiative of St Peter’s management committee, which aims to enhance its offering for the local community – particularly to isolated older people and to young people in need of training.

However, the church lacks resources for major projects such as this, and although we intend to raise some of the funds required from our members, we would be unable to deliver the full project without significant external support.

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Location Ealing

About the space

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How will the money be spent?Target (inc. fees)  £79,748

Create paved areas and planting beds at the front of the Church and Hall for community activities - £16,210
Re-refurbish and make safe the front of the Hall - £11,900
Create stunning planting at the west end of the Church - £6,020
Install community notice boards and other signs - £5,733
Install low-energy floodlighting to illuminate the west front of the Church - £5,400
Build a new path through grounds - £5,158
Design costs (survey, plan other fees) - £4,100
Contingency (5% of cost items) - £3,757
Install benches to create community spaces - £2,140
Cultivate London youth training - £2,000
Other - £9,750

Costs Breakdown

This shows how money raised for the project will be spent. These costs have been confirmed by the project's Delivery Manager and verified.

Create paved areas and planting beds at the front of the Church and Hall for community activities
£16,210
Re-refurbish and make safe the front of the Hall
£11,900
Create stunning planting at the west end of the Church
£6,020
Install community notice boards and other signs
£5,733
Install low-energy floodlighting to illuminate the west front of the Church
£5,400
Build a new path through grounds
£5,158
Design costs (survey, plan other fees)
£4,100
Contingency (5% of cost items)
£3,757
Install benches to create community spaces
£2,140
Cultivate London youth training
£2,000
Other Read More
£9,750
  • Waste disposal and skip hire
    £1,900
  • Build a gate and fence to the side of the Hall to enhance security at rear of the Hall
    £1,650
  • Project management
    £1,500
  • Install new security lights at the front of the Hall
    £1,300
  • Create an external water and electricity supply at the front of the Hall for events
    £1,300
  • Supply hedging to screen car park
    £600
  • Provide an external water source at the front of the Church for irrigation
    £500
  • Remove and make good a section of hedge/fence
    £500
  • Plant new beds at the front of the Church and other smaller horticultural elements
    £500

Target (inc. fees)  £79,748

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