COMMUNITY NEWS
AUGUST 2021
Bright future for former United Reformed Church
Sudbury Hive, a charity which supports other charities and good causes, has agreed with the URC Eastern Region Synod to buy the Grade II Listed former Christ Church in School Street, Sudbury, which closed in 2018. The building will become The Hive Community Hub, offering medium- to largesized rooms and halls which can be used to serve the needs of voluntary and community organisations and other groups in and around the town. In recent months fundraising efforts redoubled to raise the purchase price and other costs and Hive is extremely grateful to everyone who has donated, or promised, funding so that the project can go ahead. A major grant has been agreed by Suffolk Community Foundation through the Joy Abbott Fund, and in acknowledgement of this significant support the Church (which will be converted for performances and large meetings) will be known as “The Joy Abbott Hall”. Many other personal donations have been received from people in the local community, as well as from the Lord Phillips Trust, former County Councillors Jack Owen and Colin Spence (from their Locality Budgets), the Lord Belstead Trust, The Tudwick Foundation, The Hillier Trust, the Bernard Sunley Foundation and Siemens Healthineers. Other funding has been pledged by Sudbury Town Council, Sudbury Freemen’s Trust, the Garfield Weston Foundation, Colchester Catalyst Charity, Suffolk Community
Foundation through the Maurken Fund, and County Cllr Peter Beer from his Locality Budget. The charity plans that organisations will be able to hire Friars Hall, the Anthony Wheeler Room and the Joy Abbott Hall from autumn this year, when all preparatory work has been completed. Once the building is back in use, there will be more work to be done, with repairs and refurbishment taking place over time, as funding permits. Chairman of Hive Trustees, Shirley Moore said “We really are indebted to all of the local people, organisations and grant-making trusts that have made this purchase possible. There is a lot of hard work still to be done and money to be raised but our intention is that this building will become an essential venue for the Sudbury community”. Hive Trustee and Treasurer, Gareth Cole, will be pleased to hear from any organisations wishing to hire halls in the Hive Community Hub. Tel: 07771 893702 or email: enquiries@sudburyhive.org
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