Big Lottery grant for Trinity building works
Trinity has been awarded a grant from the Big Lottery Reaching Communities Buildings Fund to improve the Centre for communities
Trinity Community Arts are pleased to announce that we have been awarded a grant of £460,000 towards building works, to help improve access to the Centre and increase the space on offer for community activities.
The grant is from the Big Lottery Reaching Communities Buildings Fund - aiming to help people and communities most in need, through giving funding to improve community buildings where a wide range of community activities take place.
The Trinity Centre is used for a wide variety of activities and events and many people within the City will have their own memories of the Centre. The grant will be used to help improve the external grounds, create a new daytime reception and install heating, a sprung wooden floor, lighting and drapes in the upstairs hall space to make it suitable for activities such as dance, fitness and performance. The grant will also be used to install a full-height partition upstairs, so that a second smaller hall space will be created, suitable for IT classes, community meetings and smaller functions.
Emma Harvey, Centre Manager for the Centre said; "Trinity is already well used and loved by the community and it has been frustrating that we have not been able to do more because of the current limitations of the space. The upstairs hall is beautiful with loads of potential and we hope that more people within the community will benefit from attending activities run from within the Centre once it has been redeveloped."
The Trinity Centre has been a community centre since 1976. The Council has recently granted a new lease of the Trinity Centre (formerly the Holy Trinity Church) to TCA for a period of 35 years on full repairing and insuring terms at a peppercorn rent, using the council’s Community Asset Transfer Policy. The Church was purchased by the Council back in the 1980s following its deconsecration and has been converted to a community facility.
Works are planned to take place from June 2013 and works will be phased across the year in order to ensure the Centre remains open. We plan to complete the works and celebrate with a launch event in January 2014. Details of the planned works can be downloaded from our website or for more information contact 0117 935 1200 or email info@3ca.org.uk.
About Trinity
Trinity Community Arts (TCA), a charity running the Trinity Centre – a unique grade II* listed converted church, community arts centre and independent live music venue based in Bristol. We help bring communities together and support regeneration within Easton, Ashley and Lawrence Hill and Old Market - rated as among the top 10% of most deprived wards, nationally. We deliver arts, education and heritage activities to encourage participation and promote cohesion within the area.
TCA has a tradition of making significant achievements in the community. With no reserves and little core funding, we generate revenue through a diverse range of income streams, including a programme of live music events - all of which we reinvest back into the Centre and community activities. We are now at a crucial stage in our development, and this year of improving the building will be a challenge for the organisation.
This period of change and growth cannot happen without your support. We've set up a JustGiving page so that people in the community who care about Trinity can organise their own fundraising activities for the Centre. If you would just like to show your support, you can donate via the Trinity Text Appeal 2013 - text TRIN13 £5 to 70070 to donate to Trinity and make a difference with JustTextGiving by Vodafone.
