Video and Film Resources

Reimagining Churches as Community Assets for the Common Good (REACH Ely)

A series of video interviews on church and community engagement (2022).

Church Guidebooks for Visitors

The Festival Church Model

Churches as a Space for the Community

Village Welcome Booklet

Safe Opening of Churches

  • With Nicola Satterford, Consultant, Church Insurance Consultant, Ecclesiastical and Teresa Taylor, Churchwarden, St Mary, Comberton

Church Friends Groups

Other video and film resources

Documentary ‘Old Church: Before and After’ (2015)

Community engagement in design: The story of St Luke’s Church, Oxford. (2019)

  • St Luke’s completed a project to develop their church in 2014 creating a space that effectively serves worshiping needs alongside offering a variety of activities and services for the wider local community.
  • The film tells the story of this building project highlighting the open and creative approach that was taken to engage the community throughout the process, and the value that this engagement brought.
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYIE0QHN1Yw&feature=emb_logo&ab_channel=EmpoweringDesignPractices

Community engagement in design: The story of Graylingwell Chapel, Chichester (2019)

  • Graylingell Chapel is a building with a rich history, currently under the custodianship of Chichester Community Development Trust.
  • The film tells the story of how the development of the Chapel started, and how the community engagement process was organised to ensure that the plans take into consideration the needs and aspirations of the local community.
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFwujtGz1pE&feature=emb_logo

Engaging communities in design decision-making (2019)

Churches Conservation Trust’s Regeneration consultancy projects (2018)

Churches Conservation Trust’s All Souls Bolton case study (2015)

  • This full-length documentary from the Community Channel & The Media Trust explores the story of our £4.9m regeneration project of All Souls’ Church, Bolton through the eyes of those who have been involved in it, including Chair of All Souls Bolton Inayat Omarji, Chief Executive of The Churches Conservation Trust Crispin Truman, historic building specialist Alan Gardner, and project architect Nick Berry.
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=daLDoIgpCKg&feature=emb_logo

Architecture Students Help Redesign Paulsgrove Church (2015)

  • Thirty Brazilian architecture students have descended on a Paulsgrove church to give it a bit of a re-design.
  • The students have to come up with ideas that will make the church work better in the community.
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUDmez4aihg

Major Parish Churches (2015)

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