St Peter's Sandwich Volunteer Team and Curious Curators
St Peter’s Sandwich Volunteer Team
Since the church re-opened in April 2021, this dedicated volunteer team have come together each with their own skills and specialisms, but all with a love for their town and the church. The church currently operates as a community ‘hub’, creating a welcoming space for locals and visitors alike, as well as those interested in the history and architecture of the church. The volunteers work together to cover a bookshop, donations, tower tours and welcoming visitors and are also supported by a wonderful gardening team. The church hosts a number of charitable activities, run by the volunteers, and without their support and enthusiasm it wouldn’t be able to operate as a community hub at the heart of the town’s activities. Since April, the volunteers have raised over £30,000 for the CCT and the church, a tremendous achievement in what has been a very difficult year.
Curious Curators – 17Nineteen Project at Holy Trinity, Sunderland
This team have been involved with the church since September 2020, researching stories from Holy Trinity and Sunderland and finding innovative ways to interpret them. This exceptional group of volunteers have supported, inspired and challenged one another to work harder, probe deeper and think wider about how the stories they have uncovered could inspire others. Working digitally and from all corners of the country, the volunteers have honed their research skills and networked with industry professionals to deliver superb work. They have collaborated under some of the strangest circumstances, most of them never meeting in person, some of them never having visited Sunderland. They have listened openly and honestly to one another, appreciating each other’s inputs and respecting differences of opinions.