Cathedral Square

As work gets under way on St Martins House, we’ve revamped the Cathedral Square website so we can more easily keep you up to date with all thats going on.

Check out the new site at http://www.cathedralsquare.org.uk

• Can you deliver generous hospitality?
• Are you interested in transforming relationships?
• Do you value attentiveness to God?

If you share our core values, you may be the person we want to run St Martin’s House, next door to Leicester Cathedral, offering a confident Christian presence at the heart of Britain’s most multi-faith and diverse city.

For more details and how to apply click here

The Bishop of Leicester achieved the dream of every young boy – and doubtless not a few young girls – as he took to the controls of a big digger and broke the ground to mark the beginning of work on the new St Martin’s House.  

To read more about the opening ceremony and the project as a whole visit the Diocesan website

http://www.leicester.anglican.org

Since the recent sad death of Peter Hebden, sole proprietor of Christian Resources Leicester, there has been some uncertainty regarding the future of this popular and successful business.

 As a result of conversations with Revd Cynthia Hebden, Peter’s widow, the Bishop of Leicester is now happy to be able to announce the clear intention of the diocese to relocate Christian Resources Leicester within the new Centre to be established in the former grammar school premises next to Leicester Cathedral. 

It is hoped that this new Centre will be open during autumn 2010 when, subject to due process, the full transfer of the business will take place.

 a monthly briefing and prayer guide for parish ‘champions’ and others, and for sharing

 “St Martin’s House – can we fix it?”

Tenders came back near the beginning of last month, and the good news is that they were, as hoped for, very competitive, and the best one, on analysis, stacked up as genuine.    That means we’re in the good position of having a preferred contractor, and a period of time within which we need to sort out a few things before making a definite decision to go ahead.

The things that need sorting are basically to finalise a Business Plan which demonstrates how we expect the place to run successfully, and on the back of that to persuade the relevant bodies that it’s safe to release their money to us for the purposes for which they’re offered it – in other words to satisfy what the legal people call ‘due diligence’.   So we hope, in the words of either Bob or Barack, to be able to say a resounding ‘Yes, we can!’

Prayer Pointer – pray for all the processes and people involved in the finalisation of the Business plan.

To read more and to keep up to date with this major project:

 - don’t forget to check the website, www.cathedralsquare.org.uk – in particular the ‘News Page’