How To Help
Join us in our determination to keep the Chapel doors open.
Make A Donation
Every contribution, big or small, helps to preserve and renew the Chapel’s future.
Your donation will be used to:
- Restore the fabric of the Chapel and make much needed repairs
- Keep the doors open for the community to continue to use the Chapel and Community Hall
- Bring in the expertise we need to help us along the way with legal advice, fundraising and planning for the future of the Chapel
If you would like your gift to support a particular part of our heritage and cultural work, we’d love to hear from you. We understand how deeply your connection to the Miners’ Chapel matters and will do all that we can to respect your way of giving.
Volunteer Your Time
Lend a helping hand with fundraising events, welcoming audiences or organising activities!
And if film, photography, communications and design are your thing and you are looking for projects to help show off your talents then please PLEASE pick us to practice on!
What ever you can give we most certainly need you!
Your Questions Answered
Your donation will be used to help bring in the expertise and skills needed to plan for the Chapel’s future repair and restoration costs. As well as the costs of the much needed resource to support our volunteers to keep the doors of the Chapel open.
Looking ahead with optimism to 2033 and the Chapels 200th anniversary…
We will be preparing for what we need to do to make sure the Chapel doors remain open and welcoming over the next 10 years. It is a big and complex task. To help us navigate this task we have a simple route map with 3 milestones. You have already made milestone one happen!
Milestone One – achieved on 8 Aug 2025
Purchase the Chapel.
Milestone Two – where we are right now
Find gifted support and earned income streams to restore and repair the buildings. An important part of this will be to understand what renewable energy options we can use to help maintain and preserve the buildings, keeping costs down.
Milestone Three
Understand what the Chapel means to our different audiences to ensure that the Chapel is useful and inspiring to a wide range of people, and transforms into a space where we all work collectively together to make things better for our community.
The Methodist Church will continue to own the graveyard, and the safeguarding of its graves, gravestones and memorials is fully protected by law.
The upkeep and maintenance of the greenery around the graveyard is our responsibility.
In a momentous victory for community spirit and heritage preservation, St Just Miners’ Chapel charity is thrilled to announce it has reached its £50,000 fundraising target and been successful in its application to the Community Ownership Fund. This significant achievement marks a pivotal moment in the Chapel’s nearly 200-year history, securing its future for generations to come. Thanks to the extraordinary generosity of countless individuals who donated their time, talent, and financial support, the Chapel has demonstrated the deep affection and importance it holds within the community. This collective effort has not only met the fundraising goal first launch in March this year, but also powerfully illustrated to grant funders the widespread support for preserving this cherished landmark.