The Next 900 Campaign Appeal

What have we achieved so far?

Over the past ten years the church community – a vibrant gathering of around 250 people – has helped to carry out many improvements at St Michael’s.

Together we have already installed new central heating, created new office space in the upper vestry, added a disabled toilet and a new servery in the west end of the church and, most recently, restored the chancel windows.

We could not have done this without the sterling work of our congregation, supporters and Friends, who also help to fund the day to day ministry and maintenance. This alone costs over £100,000 a year. (click here to join our Friends group)

English Heritage, the Historic Preservation Trust, Northumbria Historic Preservation Trust and a number of charitable trusts have all helped with repairs in the past by, for which we are very grateful.

Now we are starting to fundraise all over again, so we can afford to do all the new repairs and add more facilities to make the building and its stories accessible to everyone. That’s what the Next Nine Hundred Years campaign is all about.

How much money have we raised already?

We’ve been promised £300,000 by the Heritage Lottery Fund, City of Sunderland, Biffa and English Heritage, amongst many others – but we’ve still got a long way to go to reach the million pounds we need.

We’ve already done a lot of preparation work with experts to draw up detailed plans, so you can be sure we’ll be investing all the money we raise wisely in the building and its new facilities. (next)

How to help / donate
Campaign home page
Campaign Events
Issues
Building history and significance
The architectural proposals
The access proposals
The heritage proposals
Success so far
St Michael’s home page
How much have we raised so far?