Our regeneration consultancy service

Helping communities breathe new life into churches

Historic places of worship need to find new and extended uses if they are to survive. Developing a new use project in a historic place of worship is complex. These sites exert a strong emotional pull on local communities. This, coupled with planning policy and legislation, can make project management challenging. 

We operate a regeneration consultancy service and can support you to develop your extended and new use ideas for your historic place of worship. Our Team has significant experience in project management and delivering creative re-use schemes that are viable, sustainable and deliver demonstrable social benefits for local communities. We can help in a number of ways.

We can provide the following tailored packages of support to help your project.

• Profile your local community 
• Assess a number of new use options 
• Plan and deliver a community consultation event

• Identify a viable and sustainable extended or new use for your historic place of worship 
• Develop an outline business case of investment 

• Develop a Round One or Round Two bid to the Heritage Lottery Fund (or other funder) 
• Manage team appointments, including consultants and staff 
• Develop a sustainable community business model 
• Prepare funding applications 
• Develop an innovative and exciting activity, learning and interpretation plan 

• Co-ordinate the appointment of your design team and build contractor 
• Oversee the construction programme

• Develop a governance and management plan for your project 
• Review your community business model 

• Bespoke training to suit your needs on a range of areas including consultation and fundraising, activity and business planning, management and governance, repair and adaptation planning