St Andrew's building project

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	St Andrew’s Starbeck The foundation stone for our present building was laid in 1909, and the building was completed in 1910. Today, in 2014 we celebrate having completed our building project and having opened the new Welcome centre in September 2013.
St Andrew’s church has a vision to be a resource centre for the community of Starbeck through welcoming people with open arms leading them towards a Christian faith, while at the same time resourcing stronger Christians and affirming their faith. Visit our activities page to see some images from the many events that take place in St Andrews and of the people involved. In 2006 the leadership of St Andrew’s began looking at ways the building could be improved for the benefit of both the regular worshipping community and the wider community in Starbeck. A major consideration was for the building to be easily accessible to all people regardless of any disability, to provide for the comfort and needs of all visitors, to create a warm, hospitable and welcoming meeting space, including a large and flexible worship area.
New entrance and Welcome Centre A quick pictorial summary from project beginning to end		This web page now celebrates the completion of the project with largely historic information and the photographs you see here. We still need to raise more funds to complete the outstanding payments: links to the latest fund details are given below
		Building fund value. Use this button to find out the up to date value of the building fund
		If you want to send us some feedback, write us a comment, or ask a question, use this button to bring up our feedback form
		See the crane video! Click the button to the right to see the high speed video of the crane unfolding and delivering the steelwork to Starbeck Welcome centre
		Donations Welcome! You will see from the building fund value that there is a significant cost commitment in undertaking this project. You can donate and help support this on-going cost using the donations button here

The story of the building project

Annual Parochial Church Meetings

· March 2006: the PCC concluded we should improve the building

· Questionnaire to church members to obtain their views

· Church and Halls User Group questionnaire for all involved in using our buildings

· Letter sent to 10 Architects to ask for them to tender for working with us. Byrom Clark Roberts selected as our architects.

· Meeting held in order to get feedback from Starbeck community

· Statement of need sent to Diocesan Advisory Board identifying plans & seeking approval

· Plans for updating St Andrews church approved by PCC

· April 2009: plans presented to Church family at APCM

· September (evening) and November (morning) 2009: Open discussion meetings with Church family about the building plans

· December 2009: topological survey completed,

· January 2010: PCC decision to proceed with planning permission drawings

· March 2010: Gift Day - money gifts and pledges were brought to our services, over £67,000 (including gift aid) was raised

· September 2010: Submission of drawings to Harrogate Borough Council (for planning permission) and Diocesan Advisory Committee (for Church of England approval)

· March 2011: Submission of updated drawings to Diocesan Advisory Committee

· May 2011: Certificate of Recommendation issued by DAC (Diocesan Advisory Council)

· June 2011: Submission of updated drawings to Harrogate Borough Council

· August 2011: Planning permission granted by Harrogate Borough Council

· September 2011: Francis & Elaine Wainaina cycle from Land’s End to John O’Groats to raise funds for the building project

· December 2011: Building Regulations permission granted

· February 2012: Prayer evening and Sunday afternoon Question and Answer session for the church family

· March 2012: Gift day - money gifts and pledges were brought to our services, over £36,000 (including gift aid) was raised

· April 2012: PCC decision to proceed to detailed drawings and tender for new entrance and welcome area only (see PCC letter)

· July 2012: Detailed technical drawings going out to tender

· August 2012: tenders received from contractors and being reviewed

· September 2012: contractor chosen

· October 2012: PCC decision to proceed with construction (see PCC note)

· November 4^th 2012: worship & prayer on the waste ground to commit the site and the new construction to God

· November 2012: earth-works & foundations started

· February 2013: Concrete foundations laid and steelwork erected

· February 2013: awarded a £50,000 grant from WREN Landfill Communities Fund

· May 1^st – May 19^th 2013: Francis & Elaine Wainaina cycle from Zurich to Starbeck on a tandems to raise funds for the building project

· June 6^th 2013: the builders, NRB Construction hand over the new extension to St Andrews

· September 14^th 2013: we had a wonderful opening ceremony with Christine Stewart from Starbeck in Bloom unveiling the plaque, and Bishop James bringing us some words of encouragement.

APCM 2009

At the annual parochial church meeting on 27^th April 2009 a number of presentations were made to all those who attended from the parish. These included one from the appointed architects who presented options and plans for the parish to review. The PowerPoint presentations are available for down-load here:

Leadership vision presentation

Architect’s presentation

APCM 2010

April 2010 APCM report

Audio recordings

On our audio recording website you can listen to a number of building project talks:

· Architect’s 2009 APCM presentation

· Francis’ sermon “Sowing Generously”

· Francis & Elaine’s interview by BBC Radio York (21^st August 2011)

· Presentation to the church given on Sunday morning 25^th September 2011

· Rev Paul Hooper’s sermon on the building project, sharing his wisdom & experience

· Mike Langford’s presentation to the APCM 29^th April 2012

Click here to go to our audio recording website.

Timescale & cost

A project of this nature is always a long process. The information on this page tells the story so far from 2006 to 2013. The Buildings Working Group meets each month to review the plans, the finance and the time scale.

You can see the current project timescale by using this link to the project timeline

Funding is an on-going process and there has been significant giving from within the church; we are also seeking external funding. The building fund summary sheet shows the status of the building fund. This summary is regularly updated.

Some documents you may like to read

There are links to the right which enable you to look at the documents we have been publishing through the period 2009 to 2013. These are PDF files which you can either download or read in your internet browser.

We issue newsletters to update the church and community on progress with the project, and we have written community leaflets too, all of which can be read using the links to the right.

The architects’ plans

As stated above, the architects’ plans have been approved by Harrogate Borough Council as well as the Diocesan Advisory Committee. They are available here as PDF files for download should you wish to view them.

External design with new entrance, May 2011

Internal plan, May 2012