Over to you - how did we do?

Photograph - Jimmy Lee

We started our engagement at St Margaret's Church Open Day - where we were aptly positioned underneath the Curfew Tower - the shade was truly cooling on a hot day! Visitors had the opportunity to climb up the tower to see the Holy Rood - medieval relic inside and also to climb the bell tower in the church where the bell ringers and also the choir and organist (the Church's new musical director) in the chapel, provided the atmospheric audio for the open day. As usual Carol the Churchwarden provided the refreshments including the ubiquitous homemade cakes. Revered Mark was supported by his team of volunteers including our very own Alex, Sue and Felicity who were also on hand to support Eric, Val and myself with the questionnaires. It was a lovely day to engage with the visitors to the church and passing locals about our project, with another opportunity to acknowledge the new model of the Abbey and heritage mosaics close to the improved public realm and find out if the restoration works along the high street were appreciated.

We will be back in Barking in October for more face to face surveys but would be really grateful if online readers would complete a 5 minute survey for us before the end of October! Plaese have your say here: https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/PublicFeedbackSept2023