As you may know by now, St James Church, Moss Side is planning a building development for the benefit of church and community in Moss Side to be called ‘St James Life Centre’. It will be of huge benefit to the local community offering new spaces and facilities including a café, creative spaces, heritage space and IT facilities.
We have invited our current building users, local businesses, faith leaders and local charities and organisations to be part of four focus groups set up to discuss our plans in the context of the community of Moss Side and with respect to the organisation they represent. We obviously want our building to meet genuine local needs and we these groups will help us to be very clear about what those are. The Focus Groups will also play a vital part in the next stage of the development process, when we approach funding organisations, as we will be able to feedback our community discussions as part of the application.
