OUR STORY
Windmill Community Church Finchfield
St Thomas Church, Finchfield was closed over 20 years ago and had been vacant ever since. It had fallen into complete disrepair and substantial structural work was needed to save it and bring it back into use.
Despite this, we accepted this challenge and Windmill Community Church members willingly provided the means to acquire the building and thanks to very generous supporters we were able to raise enough funds to rebuild and restore St. Thomas Church which after construction and purchase has become Windmill Community Church
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Progress of the Extension - June 2020
The building extension is now complete and we are very grateful for the gifts we have received from individuals and grant providers. This has enabled us to increase our community activities and hold several meetings at the same time. In addition to our many activities we are also planning to further our work with young people and elderly residents. It is important to us that the community are involved in all we do.
Windmill Community Church
Compton
​​There was overwhelming support expressed for the new Community Hub at Henwood Road, Compton in a survey carried out by Windmill Community Church.
People wanted a convenient space to meet, a safe haven for activities to improve health, combat loneliness, and bring all ages together, somewhere decent for young people to meet – especially after the Covid pandemic kept communities apart.
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Following 18 months of feasibility work and help from the Church Growth Trust we obtained planning consent for extensive improvements and have entered into a 100 year lease for the former “Boys Club".
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Transformation finally reaches completion at Henwood Road Compton, where the
newly refurbished building was opened on Saturday 8th July 2023.
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Our thanks to everyone who has contributed , by responding to our survey, providing comments and visiting us as well as well as providing the financial contributions which are making this work possible.
Many thanks to:
Biffa Award
FCC Communities Foundation
Garfield Weston Foundation
Bernard Sunley Charitable Trust
Beatrice Laing Charitable Trust
Edgar E Lawley Foundation
Eveson Trust
The Dorothy Stone Trust
The Rowlands Trust
The Roger and Douglas Turner Charitable Trust
The James Beattie Charitable Trust
The Grimmitt Trust
The Owen Family Trust
W.E.Dunn Charitable Trust
Enovert Community Trust
Benefact Trust
