Our grade A listed, irregular octagon church with a faceted spire was built in 1806-8 and closed in Easter 2020. Church of Scotland who own the church and halls agreed to LCDT purchasing it we are working towards raising funds to purchase and renovate it for the benefit of the community.
WE ARE PLEASED TO ANNOUNCE – the Scottish Land Fund have awarded funds to enable us to purchase the property. See announcement here.
The challenge
We will need to raise a substantial sum likely to be in excess of £3.5 million to cover:
1) Immediate and essential repairs (including work to the roof and heating system to stave off potential problems over the coming winter),
2) Immediate costs for items such as insurance, heating and lighting as we start our first phase of work – to complete the designs and documentation needed to get planning and building authorisation
3) Building work for repairing, renovating, conserving and refurbishing all parts of the church and halls.
We are waiting for answers on a number of applications that we have submitted but these can take between 3 and 6 months to be decided – fingers crossed for positive responses. If anyone has ideas on fund raising activities or has some surplus cash they would like to donate to help get things started (it always looks good in our applications if we show we are raising funds locally), please let us know through our website https://lochwinnochtrust.org.uk/contact/ or by email to lochwinnochtrust@gmail.com.
Get involved
We have a small steering group that have been working on this project for the last year but if you would like to offer your time / services in supporting us when we are ready to take the next step forward, please let us know by either of the links above.
We look forward to hearing from you.
