Brief history of St Barnabas and its Community Project

Timeline: the Church 2018 We installed a new meeting room in the Hall 2017 We installed new toilets in the Church 2017 We installed a new Church kitchen 2016 We installed a new heating system in the Church 2015 We installed a new heating system in the hall 2013 We started renovating the Church building and hall 2010 We started our first youth club 1961 The hall burnt down, and a new one completed three years later 1932 St Barnabas became a Parish Church; and a new hall was built 1911 The first Barnabas Church was completed 1870 St Barnabas Mission Church started as classes for the poor, in Back Marsh Street (near today’s Lees Road)	In the beginning The first activity to kick-start our programme of community engagement was our Youth Club, which started in November 2010.
A new project We formally started the Barnabas Community Project in mid-2011. Its aims were to: ● Enhance wellbeing and wholeness ● Promote better chances in life and build a stronger community.	Timeline: Community Project 2019 We started the third pilot of our food pantry, and will enhance it following building work in the late spring. 2018 We installed toilets in the Church, enabling more projects to occur in that end of the community centre. 2017 Significant plans were made for creating a Food Pantry 2016 We installed a new kitchen in the Community Centre 2016 We started our Youth Breakfast 2016 We appointed our second Community Worker, Duane Kenneally 2015 We appointed the Project Administrator 2015 We relocated the food bank to the Church 2015 We started our Job Club 2015 We started our Community Café 2014 We started our first food bank, from the Vicarage 2013 We appointed our first Community Worker, Sam Ecclestone 2012 We started our children’s holiday club 2011 We formally started the Community Project 2010 We started our youth club
Related links Early history of the Church The very first wedding in the Church

Page posted 21 February 2019