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Join us in our determination to keep the Chapel doors open. With your support, we can keep it for the community.

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Every contribution, big or small, helps to preserve and renew the Chapel’s future.

Your donation will be used to:

  • Buy the buildings
  • 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
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Your Questions Answered

Your donation will be used towards meeting the cost of buying the Chapel, along with helping to 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. 

Because the Chapel is a recognised ‘Asset of Community Value’ the charity has 6 months to try and purchase the Chapel  before anyone else can proceed with an offer.

Like buying a house we are at the phase of waiting for our offer to be accepted. If it is accepted we will then go through the legal process purchasing a building involves. We will have a better idea of timelines in Spring 2025.

If we buy the Chapel then our plans for the future are outlined below.  

If we are unsuccessful at purchasing the buildings the charity will need to decide if it can continue with our charitable purpose. 

Donors to our current appeal will be contacted using the information they gave when they made their online donation or cheque donation and asked if they would like their donation returned, or if the charity intends to continue, asked if they would like their donation to support the charity moving forward.

If the charity does not continue to operate our Charitable Constitution ensures that our charity funds (e.g. donations from this appeals fundraiser events, collections and donation buckets) will be transferred to a local charity with similar objectives to the Chapel. 

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 that we need to reach. 

Milestone One –  where we are right now

Trying to purchase the buildings and get us prepared for what follows…

Milestone Two

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 graveyard is a priority in our discussions with the owners. 

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.

Chair of St Just Miners' Chapel Charity
“Our hope and our prayer is that the Miners Chapel Charity can ensure that the great legacy of local Methodism will not be consigned to history and that our emphasis on social justice for all and practical service in the community, will be the basis going forward for the magnificent local asset that our Chapel building has always been, and we believe should continue to be.”
John Andersonlocal congregation member
“I have attended numerous performances in the chapel and sung there many times in drama productions, community celebrations and commemorations. It is a wonderful building holding almost two centuries of memories for the people of St Just. The Chapel is altogether a great resource for the town and a valuable asset for us all.”
Chris Hillnearby resident
“The Chapel is not only of considerable local significance but is also a national treasure”
Eric BerryCornwall Heritage Expert
“I rate this chapel in the highest rank of all Cornish Methodist buildings. I rank it so highly precisely because it is in scale and architectural ambition one of the ‘cathedrals’ of Cornish dissent, so important to the county’s cultural history. For the ‘Tin Coast’ it is simply the lodestone, irreplaceable, evocative, deeply moving. Every effort to secure a viable future will be worthwhile.”
Peter Beachamformer Heritage Protection Director for Historic England
“The Chapel is now beginning a new chapter of its life, imagining a better future, where the lessons from history contribute to a fair, just and prosperous Cornwall. Where once again the Chapel stays relevant (and standing) for the community it has served past, present and future.”
David James