Our programme of renewal and regeneration

In 2021 we embarked on a new and exciting journey. Led by the Reverend Nick Mottershead (“Fr Nick”), the PCC has refocused its vision. Taking the rich musical and military heritage of Holy Sepulchre as inspiration to further its contribution to the Common Good, operations are gradually up-scaling. From our Grade I listed church on Holborn Viaduct, we have been working to re-establish relationships, bringing local partners together to support and enrich the lives of people in all seasons of life, young and old, well and unwell, homed and homeless. We are now open more regularly, offering weekly services, concerts, exhibitions, visitor content, spaces for hire, and ‘warm spaces’. To sustain ourselves, we are trialling a range of social outreach and income generating activities, which meet our music and social welfare goals, and target specific audiences, including: city workers; the homeless; dementia sufferers, SEND young people and carers; early career musicians; schools and Old Bailey witnesses’ and victims’ families. We are also embarking on a substantial programme of repairs and restoration projects.

We started our Resounding Future campaign with a funding target of £1m, then as we secured and progressed our parallel programme of both “worship, educational and community renewal and regeneration” activities and “core building and monument” renewal and regeneration, this increased to £1.5m, then £2m and now in this Stage 2 of the programme (as set out below) we are looking to the long term future with a cumulative target of over £5m.

We set out below the major progress we have made so far, to celebrate these achievements by the whole team and in recognition of the many who have and are joining in with us to on this journey. There is much more to do and we hope you will want to join in with us too. If you have any questions and want to find our more do get in touch with Fr Nick or one of the team.

Our Vision

Key timeline and phases of our restoration programme in respect of our activities and respect of our building & benefice

A big thank you to our Funders

We are very grateful to our many individual, corporate and charitable funders who are supporting the restoration and renewal and our activities, building and instrument repair. These include Charitable Trust City of London Justice Rooms Charitable Trust; Culture Mile BID; Dominus; Garfield Weston; HLF Your Heritage Scheme; Hoares Bank; Landsec; M&G; National Churches Trust Small Grants Programme; National Lottery Warm Welcome Programme; The Barchester's Charitable Foundation; The Benefactor Trust; The Blyth Watson Charitable Trust; The Charles Skey Charitable Trust; The City Churches Grants Committee; The Friends of City Churches; The Julian Bream Trust; The London Museum; The Ouseley Church Music Trust; The Pemberton Barnes Trust; The Vinehill Trust; The Worshipful Company of Fuellers; The Worshipful Company of Hackney Carriage Drivers; and The Worshipful Company of Salters. Thank you every one of you and also those who have not been able to fund us, but took the time to consider our applications, we appreciate your interest too and recognise funding choices are never easy to make.