Church of the Week
Southoe, Cambridgeshire
At Southoe St Leonard in Cambridgeshire, our Church of the Week, celebrations recently took place to mark the launch of phase one of their project to create a community hub at the church. The aim is to create a welcoming, warm and flexible space for a variety of meetings and events, and the team there are already getting started, hosting coffee mornings, talks, quizzes, plant sales and more. In 2025, the National Churches Trust awarded a grant of £3000 towards roof and masonry repairs and window refurbishment, helping to transform the building into a space suitable for the needs of the local community. Our trustee Dr Nigel Walter attended the celebrations. “It was such a joy to attend the opening of the Southoe Community Hub, to see close to 100 people thronging the building, and even a bouncy castle!” he said. “The scheme, including the installation of WCs and the clearing away of pews, both shows off the medieval architecture and enables the broader community to enjoy and use the building. In the long term, it is only the used buildings that will survive, so the return of this 13th century Grade I listed building to the centre of its community gives it a bright future.”
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