St John’s Church update April 7th

After a review and taking considered advice the St Johns PCC  Penzance made the sad but necessary decision to close the main area of St John’s Church just before Christmas to those wishing to worship, use for meetings or use the play equipment. This was not an easy decision but with all the changes to various fire and safety regulations we felt it was the correct thing to do as custodians of the building.

Since then, we have engaged a number of external experts and specialists to review, consider and come up with  solutions and options and levels of investment to allow us to open the building in a way that minimises health, safety and fire risks. It has not unfortunately been a quick process given the number of people involved and the need to meet the relevant regulations that are in place. 

We have now completed that work and we can re-open St Johns to our congregation and for those that wish to worship.  

We also have now a complete understanding of  the amount we would need to invest and the remedial work needed to bring the church environment to a point where it could be open for use as a soft play space for families 

This is far more than we have. We intend to look to fund raising  grants. 

Our intention is to hopefully raise the money needed to get the venue up to the standard needed to reopen the play area

We will do this via our webpages and our Facebook page : Penlee Cluster of Churches 

We will continue to keep you all informed and let you all know when the fundraising page goes live 

We do understand that it is an important place for those that live and work in and around Penzance and West Penwith and we are still working through the best next steps. However we are committed to enabling St John’s church to re-open once the remedial work is in place and be thriving space for families to play safely.