St Theodore's Restoration
 
Flower Festival
September 1997 also brought the
St. Theodore's Flower Festival and Parish Exhibition. While undertaken as part of the Centenary celebrations it nevertheless resulted in a profit for the Restoration Fund further aided with the publication and sale of Flower Festival Notelets
The Flower Festival was arranged by one of ten committees that had been established to engineer various projects all aimed at realising the restoration.
The other committees included:
Publications - a Centenary Brochure was published and A History & Guide to
St. Theodore's Church
   
  Parish Shop, Car Boot Sales.
Publicity
Concerts - a variety of concerts were hosted at St. Theodore's Church
Social Events - a number of thematic Social evenings were held in the parish hall.
Marketing, Souvenirs, Christmas Bazaar & Summer Fayre - a variety of Centenary Souvenirs were commissioned and sold while the Bazaar and Fayre gained new impetus.
Parish Survey - to increase our understanding of what we had an inventory was made of all three churches.
Finance Committee - to look for charitable funding in addition to our own fundraising.
 
The Vicar took responsibility for the Worship and Architects' Committee so as to co-ordinate the Centenary services, keep everything based in prayer, and to oversee the architect's plans and progress.
As a result of the various Committees work and the generous response the parish itself gave or fundraised a total of £156,521.35 between July 1996 and June 2001.
A Heritage Lottery Grant was made for £227,000.00
Cadw (Welsh Historic Monuments) made a grant of £155,000.00.
Other Grants received totalled £31,425.00.
With a total of £569,946.35 - the restoration of St. Theodore's Church could be realised.
 

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