Current opportunities

If you would like to apply for a job or a volunteer position at the Trust, please complete the appropriate application form and submit this electronically to us. Alternatively, you may download the application form and post it to: HR, The Churches Conservation Trust, 1 West Smithfield, London, EC1A 9EE. Please mark your envelope 'private & confidential'.

 

 

 

 

In partnership with the Friends of Christ Church has an opportunity for a:

Freelance project support worker

for our church at Waterloo, Liverpool

Old Christ Church - a Maritime Landmark

Phase 1, March 2012 – September 2012

Fee: Circa £8,000

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We are looking for a dynamic, experienced project worker who has experience of successful development and subsequent delivery of community based projects within the Cultural heritage sector. Candidates should be able to demonstrate their experience of interpretative learning and participation based activities and how their successful partnerships have been secured and sustained.

Christ Church, Old Church, Waterloo was built in 1891-1899 to the designs of Paley, Austin & Paley of Lancaster. Grade II* listed, Old Christ Church is a landmark building in this once prosperous seaside resort. Known locally as Waterloo Cathedral and the Mariners Church, on a clear day its majestic Old Red Sandstone tower can be seen as far away as Anglesey. Today the area has fallen on harder times with most of the houses having been turned into flats. The church was disused for many years and World War II bombing and later vandalism took its toll. However it was deemed worthy of saving for the nation so in 1998 was vested into the care of the Churches Conservation Trust (CCT). It is a huge and impressive building with wonderful stained glass and a strong sense of Victorian confidence and civic pride. The church sits within a large churchyard (without burials) which is laid to grass but originally had paths.

In recent years a Friends Group was formed to care for and develop the church locally as a community venue on behalf of the CCT through a local management agreement. The Friends of Old Christ Church have been enormously successful in this endeavour and they continue to enable more than 25,000 visitors a year to come to Old Christ Church and enjoy its historic environment whilst supporting an ever growing programme of local events. 

Whilst the Friends Group’s income contributes to the running of the site as a community amenity, urgent and major repairs have meant a pooling of resources and an exciting new project - to secure the building’s long term future and upgrade the community facilities it can offer.

The CCT in partnership with the Friends of Old Christ Church are now in the process of applying for major funding through the Heritage Lottery Fund and other funding streams in order to:

• Conserve the historic fabric of the building to protect it for the future.
• Engage younger people in a creative learning programme and take an active involvement in heritage including an intergenerational oral history project
• Increase activities and help audiences understand the rich heritage of Old Christ Church through new community led interpretation.
• Create a sustainable community facility by further improving facilities in the church.

If you would like to tender for this phase 1 freelance opportunity, you will find more information about the process and details on how to apply here.

Submissions should reach us no later than 5pm,  1 April 2012