Carols concert bid to help one of Sheffield's most historic churches, the New Testament Church of God, on Nursery Street
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00:00It's one of Sheffield's most historic churches and parishioners hope to give it a Christmas boost to help protect it for future generations.
00:08New Testament Church of God, a landmark on Nursery Street, dates back to 1848 but needs work doing to keep the ageing building maintained.
00:17And this year there are plans for a carol concert to raise money for the building and a medical charity.
00:23Yeah, this is a very old building, built in 1848. It's Grade II listed.
00:33Our organisation, I think we purchased this around the early 1970s, which at the time was a derelict building.
00:43But we've done quite a bit of work over the years in order to be what it is today and to bring it to its former glory.
00:52So yeah, we've been here as an organisation, or part of an organisation, and used this as a local church since around 1974.
01:03And what plans have you got for the building over Christmas?
01:08So we'll be holding a carol service on Sunday the 22nd of December at 6pm, all invited.
01:19And we're going to be using, on this occasion, the service as a part fundraiser.
01:27We've had to have the roof replaced just a few months ago and there'll be some further repairs going on on the outside of the building next year.
01:36It'll need reappointing because we want it to be nice, safe and watertight.
01:42It's a community building so we often hold a lot of local funerals, large funerals.
01:48It's a big building so we have lots of different events here, baby dedications, weddings.
01:54And this carol service will be a way of raising some money towards some of the upkeep that we'll be doing and some of the work that we'll be doing next year.
02:05So we want as many people from the community to attend because it is a community building.
02:12So in the last year we've had all the fencing installed.
02:19There was something similar in 1848 but during the war all the fences got removed for steel for the war.
02:28And so we've just replaced that and we're trying to restore aspects of the building to its former glory.
02:33But what it will need now is a big job of the whole building being repointed so we can make it more watertight.
02:42And with anything like an old building like this it just needs some constant love and tender care.
02:49Each year at our carol services we like to include some charities, either local or national charities.
02:59In the last year we did have the Anthony Nolan Trust charity come and there was a person in particular, Andrea, who came along to the carol service and has since passed away.
03:13So this year in her honour we still wanted to include that charity and some of the funds that we raise will be going towards that which is a national blood cancer charity.
03:24And I think they do some stem cell research and we wanted to be able to support that.