Newport Cathedral Emergency Campaign

The Cathedral has put out a plea for local business to provide ‘goods in kind’, so as to enable work to start on the roof repairs.

Campaign Chair, John Child said. “We are aware that in this present crisis local businesses can not afford to make donations to the campaign, but it is likely that due to the downturn in trade local scaffolders, for example may have some materials they can let us have free of charge, but at little or no cost to them”.

“We are looking at a variety of ways in which we can make some progress on getting the roof work started. Although we do not have the money to do all 3 sections of the cathedral roof we may be able to do a third at a time. To this end we have instructed our architect and surveyors to come up with an alternative plan of work.”

In a separate development the campaign announced that the recent High Sherriff’s Concert raised one and a half thousand pounds towards the Campaign.