Card sales to helpfund historic church

CANTELUPE Community Association, which is seeking to safeguard Bexhill's listed St Barnabas Church and the public garden in Brassey Road, is managing the town's only outlet for Cards for Good Causes this Christmas to help raise funds for its objectives.

The church was created by the celebrated Victorian architect Sir Arthur Blomfield, whose best known works include the Royal College of Music in London and the Fleet Street branch of the Law Courts. The church suffered a fire in 2005 but has since undergone restoration, now almost complete.

Cards for Good Causes embraces 29 national charities, which in the past five years have received £20 million, and its sales counter in St Barnabas Church is there for the second year running.

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Commission earned on card sales will go to benefit the church, located at the junction of Sea Road, Cantleupe Road and St Leonards Road. Also selling wrapping paper and small gifts, the shop’s opening hours are 11am to 4pm Tuesdays to Fridays, and 10am to 4pm on Saturdays.

This evening - Friday - to coincide with Bexhill’s Christmas lights switch-on, it will remain open until 6.30pm.

Dru Tramaseur, of Brassey Road, said the CCA had been born out of concern for that part of the town when the prospect of two new blocks of flats on the former public garden in Knole Road, now a bowling club, raised fears of over-development.

Resisting the threatened demolition of St Barnabas Church was another cause which it took to its heart, and it is being helped to run the charity greetings card shop by members of St Barnabas Church and local volunteers.

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