{"id":2607,"date":"2014-03-04T08:49:45","date_gmt":"2014-03-04T08:49:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cardiffian.jomec.co.uk\/?p=2607"},"modified":"2014-03-04T08:49:45","modified_gmt":"2014-03-04T08:49:45","slug":"splott-church-to-step-in-after-community-centre-closure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/2014\/03\/04\/splott-church-to-step-in-after-community-centre-closure\/","title":{"rendered":"Splott church to step in after community centre closure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_2619\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2619\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/cardiffian.jomec.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/stsaviour.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2619\" alt=\"St Saviour's Church in Splott, Cardiff\" src=\"http:\/\/cardiffian.jomec.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/stsaviour.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2619\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2619\" alt=\"St Saviour's Church in Splott, Cardiff\" src=\"http:\/\/cardiffian.jomec.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/stsaviour.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/noscript><\/a> St Saviour&#8217;s Church in Splott, Cardiff<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nA Cardiff church is offering to come to the rescue of local people who are about to lose their popular community centre.<br \/>\nSaint Saviour\u2019s church in Splott is planning to offer its parish hall for services like a mother and toddlers\u2019 group, community meetings and other social events.<br \/>\nSplott is about to lose its popular STAR centre, to be replaced by a state of the art \u00a39m community hub in Tremorfa.\u00a0 But many locals in Splott feel the community centre should be in Splott in the heart of the community.<br \/>\nThe centre is much used and the library in particular is very popular with young and old.\u00a0 On Thursday mornings, a pre-nursery singing group for very young children is well attended and secondary school children use the computers after school.<br \/>\nThe closure of the STAR centre has been a controversial issue in the Splott area for a long time, but the community hub at Splott pool in Tremorfa finally got the go ahead last year.<br \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2617\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2617\" style=\"width: 522px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/cardiffian.jomec.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Glyn-Perryman-cropped.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-2617 \" alt=\"&quot;We want to be at the heart of the community,&quot;  said Glyn Perryman, church warden at Saint Saviour's Church, Splott\" src=\"http:\/\/cardiffian.jomec.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Glyn-Perryman-cropped-870x1024.jpg\" width=\"522\" height=\"614\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2617\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-2617 \" alt=\"&quot;We want to be at the heart of the community,&quot;  said Glyn Perryman, church warden at Saint Saviour's Church, Splott\" src=\"http:\/\/cardiffian.jomec.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Glyn-Perryman-cropped-870x1024.jpg\" width=\"522\" height=\"614\" \/><\/noscript><\/a> &#8220;We want to be at the heart of the community,&#8221; said Glyn Perryman, church warden at Saint Saviour&#8217;s Church, Splott<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nNow St Saviour\u2019s church is hoping to step in and help the local people of Splott.\u00a0 \u201cWe want the church to be at the heart of the community,\u201d said Glyn Perryman, church warden at St Saviour\u2019s.<br \/>\n\u201cWe are in the centre of Splott, we have a lovely hall and good facilities and it would be lovely to welcome all kinds of people in,\u201d he said.<br \/>\nAt the moment the hall is used for activities including a food co-op every Tuesday morning when over 60 people come in to buy fresh fruit and vegetables at \u00a33 a bag.<br \/>\n\u201cWe love when people come to the church,\u201d said Mr Perryman.<br \/>\n\u201cThat is how it should be and we are just across the road from the STAR centre so it is not far to walk,\u201d he said.<br \/>\nMany local people, particularly older people, feel the new hub in Tremorfa will be too far to walk.<br \/>\nOne 86-year-old man, who uses the library every morning to read the newspapers, said he would not be able to walk that far.<br \/>\nThe parochial church council is discussing the option of offering these services at the moment.<br \/>\n\u201cIt is still at a very early stage, but we are very keen to do it and the vicar Father Dean Atkins is very much about opening our doors to the public,\u201d said Mr Perryman.<br \/>\nIf the move goes ahead the church will look at ways to improve their facilities by refurbishing the hall and adding a new kitchen.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Cardiff church is offering to come to the rescue of local people who are about to lose their popular community centre. Saint Saviour\u2019s church in Splott is planning to offer its parish hall for services like a mother and toddlers\u2019 group, community meetings and other social events. Splott is about to lose its popular STAR centre, to be replaced by a state of the art \u00a39m community hub in Tremorfa.\u00a0 But many locals in Splott feel the community centre [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":248,"featured_media":2619,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1291,450,2014],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-2607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-cardiff-2","tag-splott","tag-st-saviours-church"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Splott church to step in after community centre closure - The Cardiffian<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/2014\/03\/04\/splott-church-to-step-in-after-community-centre-closure\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Splott church to step in after community centre closure - The Cardiffian\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A Cardiff church is offering to come to the rescue of local people who are about to lose their popular community centre. 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