Current and Future Initiatives

West Green Baptist Church

Current and Future Initiatives

The Old Memorial Hall

Building for the future

Our memorial hall, built in 1886 at a cost of £3673.00 has been closed since December 2006 because the structure has become unsafe for public use.

The old hall was finally demolished in July 2009 and will be replaced with a new purpose built hall which will enable us to extend and expand our range of services to the community.

We here at West Green Baptist Church believe that the examples set by our predecessor (their faith ,their vision and dedication) applies to us today, in order to prepare the way for the generations to come.

If you are interested in helping, we invite you to join with us in this project.

The Project

The Memorial Hall Building Project was officially launched in July 2000. We have undertaken all the preliminary works and are now seeking funding from members ,friends, Charities and other financial institutions.

The new building will provide improved: disabled access, disabled toilets, children's toilet, kitchen facilities,play areas and meeting rooms.
The cost of the new Community Hall is £500,000.00

We provide services for young and old in our weekly schedule.

Further details about the project can be obtained by contacting the Project Co-ordinator - Eddie East

The Fund Raising Committee

We have a dedicated fund raising team- members are listed below:

Cludie Dada
Jean East
John Harvey
Abel Munonyara
Tokoni Davids

Building Projects Co-ordinating committtee members:

Eddie East
Ruth Harper
Babson Omole

The Project has an established Architect engaged in helping us to supervise the Project:

Mr Derek Kemp of CPL - Chartered Architects, Property Consultants & Designers- a company based in Eastbourne, Sussex.

Mr Kemp has been with us since the start of the Project in July 2000.

Below are some of the Fund raising committee members

Eddie East: Church Projects Co-ordinator

Jean East- Fund raising Team

Cludie Dada - Fund Raising Team

Abel Munonyara : Fund raising team

John Harvey: Fund raising team

We will keep you informed of our progress in this section:

The first phase of the building project started on 22.6.09 with the demolition of the old hall. This has now been completed and the site cleared for the foundation to be laid. See picture

The builders will be starting the foundation shortly.

Re-launch event 3.10.09

There was a a building project relaunch event on Saturday 3rd October 09.
Guest Speaker was the President of the BU - Rev Kingsley Appiagyei, who attended with his wife and gave a wonderful message of hope and faith in realising God's plans for our community project.

The event was also supported by our local MP David Lammy.

The event proved to be a wonderful afternoon of thanksgiving and we were able to raise over £3000.00, with pledges to support the project, given by individuals.

Also joining in the Thanksgiving Event were our special guests from Manipur, India,
Rev Asong Leivon and his wife.

MP David Lammy gave his support to the project and the prospects of providing better facilities to the community of Tottenham.

START OF THE FOUNDATION

Following further meetings with the Building contractors and CPL work on the laying of the foundation commenced on 12th July 2010. A morning of praying took place at 10am on 12th July 2010 before the building work commenced. This meeting was well attended by members and friends of West Green Baptist Church.

This phase of the project will take 9 weeks to complete. We are still appealing for funds to continue the further phases of the build.

Please continue to pray for the successful completion of this project.

A sponsored walk took place on 17th July 2010 in the Lee Valley Country Park. We were able to raise over £500.

There will be a fund raising Gospel Concert on Friday 10th September starting at 7.30pm and featuring the CTT Choir ( Churches Together in Tottenham), West Green Singers, West Green men, West Green Senior Choir, SGK Youth Choir, Young Musicians and more.