HEAT THE HEART OF KEYNSHAM: BUILDING OUR COMMUNITY

NEW HEATING BEFORE WINTER; AVIVA WILL DOUBLE YOUR DONATIONS!

The largest public place in town has no heating.  With your support, we can install ground-breaking new electric radiant heat panels this autumn.  Not only will this  be more efficient,  it will help us lead the way to net zero in the fight against climate change

. LOCAL COUNCILLORS SHOW THEIR SUPPORT !                                                                               Local councillors Dave Biddlestone, Alex Beaumont, Andy Wait, Alan Hale and George Leach all visited the church to lend their support to this key community building. Pictured here with illustrator Anna, who designed our logo and publicity, and the treasurer Anne. We looked at where the new heating haloes will go in the church, and the proposed plans for redeveloping the building. They have all been to events here and experienced the unheated church so could appreciate how important this project is for our town.

We aced our first target in 4 days, so now  we can start to look at much needed improvements inside the building. We have consulted with a number of groups.     You have told us you would like accessible automatic doors, WCs, a kitchen servery, and flexible seating, as we open this building and its amazing heritage up to the wider public.                       

KEYNSHAM; YOU ARE AMAZING; THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT SO FAR, AS WE MOVE TOWARDS OUR £30K TARGET!

Despite the lack of heating, all our major town events have continued in this building: from the Remembrance service to the Christmas Tree Festival, concerts, and many school events. It's open to everyone as place of quiet at the heart of a busy, growing town. We've consulted with community groups and schools and you have told us what you would value in the building, from automatic accessible doors, a servery and loos, a more flexible space, and ways to tell people about the rich local heritage of this town. Thanks to you, we can continue with our plans!           ACCESSIBLE AUTOMATIC GLASS DOORS will keep the draughts out and enable easy access for wheel chair and buggy users.    WCs and SERVERY will give us more scope to run events and concerts in the building.  FLEXIBLE SEATING so that we can clear a bigger space for exhibition and events like the winter and Christmas tree festivals.       

COMMUNITY DISPLAYS AND EVENTS TO CELEBRATE OUR RICH LOCAL HERITAGE              These will be  key to our project.  Chances are you have already visited this building. Were you at  the Music Festival or Remembrance Day events, or the sponsored charity tower abseil?  If so, you will already know what a special place this is; the only grade 2* listed building in a fast-growing town.  It has a fascinating story to tell and we want to share it more widely with the town. Our strap line is  'St Johns 750; Local heritage, building community'.  

DONATE NOW UNTIL MAY 11TH, AND AVIVA WILL MATCH YOUR GIFT!  

This is such an amazing opportunity; we are  super excited! Aviva are supporting us because the heating  project is innovative; a new way to heat an old draughty building without using gas.  They are also aware of the potential of this building to reach the wider community in this fast growing town.

"There's never been a better time to get involved and support this project than now with this match funding from Aviva."

THIS IS WHAT IT WILL LOOK LIKE 

 We have researched all the options out there for this large building and the best solution is ground-breaking new electric radiant heat panels.  They are designed to heat the person, rather than warm up the air in this tall and draughty space! They come  mounted in halo chandeliers, in keeping with this historic building.  You would not even guess there are heating panels inside each halo! 

This system is already successfully installed in public buildings around the world.  It will be cheaper to run, more efficient, and save us over 12tonnes of Co2 each year...We want to make this building  something the whole town can be proud of..so that others come to our town to learn from our example.

PLEASE SUPPORT US NOW!

- Aviva will match your first donation, up to £250 [we can claim gift aid on top of this!].       -Sponsor now of the abseil teams; listed under 'rewards', so we can keep a record for each team!                                                                                                                                                                   - Check out the 'rewards'; there are some real bargains to be had, thanks to the support of local businesses

SPONSORED ABSEIL!                             CHOOSE YOUR TEAM                                  3 teams, all raising money for the same good cause   They will each abseil down the church tower to raise money for us, but are being sponsored as teams to maximise matchfunding as it is only doubled on the first donation!  

Please click on each 'reward page' to give as much as you are able! It will say £5, but you can then make additional donations up to £245 and have it all doubled by Aviva still. And we can update you here on their progress...Confusingly you do not get a 'reward' for this one, but the satisfaction of them knowing you support them, and some friendly rivalry between the teams!  Support these 6 wonderful young people who are committed to raising the funds for this amazing community building, sued by so many.

THEPP AND ANNA Sat 26th, 11.40 & 11.50am: the brother-sister team from Bonzos!

 SISTERS KATIE AND IZZY, Sat 26th 2.20, 2.30pm: will really give them some competition!

JACOB AND SOPHIE, SAT 26th, 2.40 and 2.50pm: last to abseil, will they beat the rest?!

'REWARD' BARGAINS NOT TO BE MISSED

EVERYONE'S A WINNER! donate to get a prize that's worth more than you paid for it, but Aviva will double this donation! Check out our rewards column; we are bowled over by how  many local businesses are supporting us with vouchers and donations; we want to give a big shout out for Mokka, Crumbs, The Entertainer, Longwell records, the Bellringers, the Old Manor House, and the Leisure Centre... We are so grateful to them

Some of our rewards are quite unique, like a chance to climb up the 100 foot church tower in May.  Offers are limited in number, so grab yourself a bargain before they all go! 

DREAM BIG

 Draft plans to upgrade the building are on display inside the church, so do pop in and take a look; it's open every weekday morning 9-12.

HELP THE DREAM COME TRUE...  KEYNSHAM HEAT YOUR HEART OUT!

Here are some photos of our many rewards, with grateful thanks to our sponsors.  We will let you know when and where you can collect them, but it should be fairly quickly; they will be in the parish office, 10-12 weekdays, down the side of St Johns church... or we may be able to deliver locally

WORK HAS ALREADY STARTED AS YOU READ THIS! Here's what we have already done to make the plans a reality!!

And here are some pics of progress so far; installing a new 3 phase supply that can provide the larger amount of electricity this project requires.  We already use Good Energy, so all our energy is green sourced!