‘We’ve judged our year to be successful and learned a lot. Several events have sold out.’

Restoration works: Richard Hewitt & Chrissie McGinn

by Richard Hewitt & Chrissie McGinn 11th October 2019

Friends returned to the Blue Idol, our seventeenth-century Meeting house, in the summer of 2015, following two years of major restoration work. The Blue Idol was established by William Penn in West Sussex. The work was expensive and we had much discussion about whether the money should be put to better use. We decided to go ahead but agreed that we should use the building for more than our small Meeting for Worship. We want to share our story to help other Meetings explore ways to engage their local communities.