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Heart of Headcorn community centre booming after villagers took on former Methodist Church
One year on since villagers saved their church and turned it into a community hub and the centre is booming.
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Youth club back in Headcorn after nine-year absence
“As a result of the Heart of Headcorn, many projects are emerging – not just where groups hire the facilities, but also where needs are addressed and issues grasped.”
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Heart of Headcorn opens at old Methodist Church
More than 150 people turned out to celebrate the official opening of a community space after a 32-month battle to make it happen.
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A look inside the Heart of Headcorn at the old Methodist church before its grand re-opening
The opening will represent the conclusion of a 32-month battle to secure the continued use of the church building for the community after it closed for worship in January 2021.
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Opera star Yuri Sabatini opens first event at village’s new Heart Of Headcorn centre
Italian opera singer Yuri Sabatini serenaded a packed audience of around 100 people in the pews of what had once been Headcorn’s Methodist Church.
The building had been saved from the threat of conversion to housing by the determination of villagers who raised funds to buy it from the church authorities for use as a community centre.
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That was utterly spectacular. And it happened in Headcorn Village.
Thank you Yuri Sabatini. Really hope you’ll return very soon.
And to Bella Mansfield and her small army of helpers. You rock.
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Success as villagers buy Headcorn Methodist Church
There’s exhilaration in Headcorn this week with news the community has successfully exchanged contracts to buy the 150-year-old redundant Methodist Church in the village.
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Methodist church building news
The Heart of Headcorn team have announced that they have finally exchanged contracts on the purchase of the former Methodist Church for the people of Headcorn.
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Headcorn villagers vote yes to public works loan to buy old Methodist Church
Heart of Headcorn is a community group set up specifically to buy the church, which it hopes to use for a number of purposes – as a village museum, as a centre for further learning, and as a mindfulness refuge.
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Headcorn residents to vote securing loan to buy disused Methodist church for community centre as Indian church group emerge as late bidder
A meeting in the Village Hall on Wednesday will see Headcorn Parish Council seek approval to apply to the Public Works Loan Board (PWLB) for money to buy the old church in the High Street.
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Church withdrawn from auction as Headcorn villagers make an offer
Villagers in the Heart of Headcorn group want to see the disused Methodist Church in the centre of the village turned into a community centre for clubs and societies; including a badly needed youth club and an innovative sustainability hub, in memory of the late Penny Kemp.
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Headcorn waits with bated breath to see if Methodist church can be saved for the community before its sale at auction
A campaign group called The Heart of Headcorn was formed in February and is seeking to save the building for community use and has developed detailed proposals to use the building as a museum, an education hub, a mindfulness space, food bank and a youth club.
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Headcorn villagers hope to buy Methodist Church for community use
A group of villagers in Headcorn have come together to launch a campaign to purchase the disused Methodist Church for the community.
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Methodists set to leave church building in Headcorn
Methodists in Headcorn are set to leave their base of more than 200 years, as maintaining the building has become an “impossibility”.
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