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Josef Thoma (FoSP Treasurer) & Mary Yearley (FoSP Chair) Presenting the cheque to Reverend Penny Thatcher and Steven Sherwood (St Perter’s Church Warden)
Josef Thoma (FoSP Treasurer) & Mary Yearley (Fosp Chair) Presenting the cheque to Reverend Penny Thatcher and Steven Sherwood (St Perter’s Church Warden)

FoSP Presentation of a cheque for the new boiler in the Village St Peter’s Church

We are delighted to have presented Rev. Penny Thatcher and Stephen Sherwood the Church Warden with a cheque for £15,464.00 to pay for the new boiler now installed in the Church. This was the first phase of a general plan for a new heating system.

The boiler has made a huge difference, not only ensuring the congregation feel more comfortable, but also to help dry the interior fabric of the church and hopefully mitigate against any further degradation of the internal decoration.

The donation money was generated by the profits gained from the many FoSP village events and very importantly from membership annual subscriptions given by so many of the village community.

Mary Yearley – Chair of FoSP

The church needs a heating system that efficiently delivers heat to the central part of the church, where most of the congregation sits.

The existing perimeter heaters have a limited effect as they are far away from the congregation. The existing heating system takes many hours of heating before its impact can be felt, which is expensive and wasteful.
The project involves the two-stage development of a heating system for the church.

The first phase involves replacing the existing 1970s boiler, which may fail at any time and is inefficient. The second phase involves developing a ducting system across the nave and aisle areas. The ducting will carry additional finned heating pipes.

It is designed so that a congregation member should be roughly only six feet away from a heating pipe. The gas-heated boiler water will circulate through the new heating ducts and the existing perimeter heaters.

We have considered various heating sources, including renewable energies. We require a system producing nearly 100KW. Green technologies will improve and become more efficient; therefore, we have committed to proposing to achieve net carbon zero by 2030.

Steven Sherwood – 
Church Warden of St Peter’s Church Titchfield