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July 2025: An exciting moment for St. Mildred’s when we received a grant of £137,000 from The Benefact Trust. Two weeks later we received our Faculty from Southwark Diocese.
June 2025: The first phase of the south aisle work was completed.
February 2025: we were awarded a £12,508 grant from the Lewisham Council NCIL grant to install two, dual socket 22KWh EV chargers.
June 2025: The first phase of the south aisle work was completed.
February 2025: we were awarded a £12,508 grant from the Lewisham Council NCIL grant to install two, dual socket 22KWh EV chargers.
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Between 3 November and 15 December 2024: donations up to £10,000 were given during this six-week period were matched by the Church of England’s “Give to Go Green” project. This was for the purpose of insulating and re-covering the south aisle roof in preparation for installation of solar panels.
August 2024: The Marshall’s Charity kindly awarded a grant of £25,000 towards the re-covering of the south aisle roof in preparation for the installation of solar panels. We are very grateful to this charity for their support.
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January 2024: Community audit, involving local consultation concerning how the new building will be used.
November 2023: A church leadership day, facilitated by Action Planning, enabled us to consider the project and fundraising for it, leading to the launch of a community audit.
Spring 2022: we were awarded a £5,000 grant from the Greater London Authority’s “London Community Energy Fund” to pay for an energy options study, with the objective of making the building more environmentally friendly.
April 2019: we submitted our original planning application.
December 2017: a public exhibition and consultation exercise sought views from local people on the design of the new building
January 2024: Community audit, involving local consultation concerning how the new building will be used.
November 2023: A church leadership day, facilitated by Action Planning, enabled us to consider the project and fundraising for it, leading to the launch of a community audit.
Spring 2022: we were awarded a £5,000 grant from the Greater London Authority’s “London Community Energy Fund” to pay for an energy options study, with the objective of making the building more environmentally friendly.
April 2019: we submitted our original planning application.
December 2017: a public exhibition and consultation exercise sought views from local people on the design of the new building
Progress
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We appointed architects in 2013 and other professional consultants in subsequent years.
After a lot of work on the design of the new building, including public consultation, we achieved full planning consent in 2021. Since then, with the support of the Lewisham Council planning department, we have refined the plans to make the building more cost-effective to build and more environmentally efficient to run. We were delighted to receive a Faculty (formal Church of England permission) in July 2025 and so we finally now find ourselves poised to start building! |
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