Director of Development: Jo Addie

• PowerPoint presentation, 18 March 2007, by John Bailey, Cathedral Architect (opens new browser window)
  
  
• PowerPoint presentation, 21 July 2006 (opens new browser window)
  Feaures "before" and "after" pictures, details of development plans
  
  

Article from Awake magazine, February 2007
Planning for major developments at something like a cathedral is a bit like an elephant giving birth: Nothing appears to be happening for a long time and then things start to speed up fast!

What do we want to do? We want a cathedral that is clean, well lit and accessible. We want to improve our capacity to welcome and accommodate a wider range of worshippers and visitors. By cleaning the interior walls, relighting, having flexible seating, reducing the many different floor levels people have to climb up and down,  and  building a better nave dais/sanctuary, we intend to achieve those goals. We also want to develop the wasted space between the Treacy Hall and the North side of the cathedral itself by constructing a glass atrium. This will  give us another gathering, meeting, social space within the cathedral’s existing “footprint”. Better kitchen and lavatory facilities will also help our ministry of welcome!

I’m very glad to tell you that with the Heritage Lottery Fund, Wakefield Council and Bishop Stephen all making generous contributions to the costs of appointing a Development Director, we are about to enter into the next phase of making the development of your cathedral a reality.

An important preliminary to making decisions about what needs to happen to the physical building has been a careful working out of the theology of our development. What does the building say about what we believe? How does the present building stop us doing that? 

Whilst we are  looking at how the “stones” of the cathedral can help us in these tasks, we are also reviewing our activities and how we relate to the many different categories of people who come into the building. To help us to do this we have been very glad to receive grants to employ an Education Officer whose task will be to draw together the various groups of volunteers who work so hard to offer welcome and hospitality to make sure we are working coherently and imaginatively.

By all means let us know what you think and how the cathedral could better relate to and serve the diocese.