Cathedral in Crisis

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00:00We're coming to the end of the Cathedral in Crisis campaign, what's the reaction been like over the

00:05past couple of months since it's been since it's been running? Well I think it's been a real mix

00:11but one of the things that we've been overwhelmed with has been the fact that we've had over a

00:15thousand nearly some thousand people who've donated to this campaign and that's an extraordinary

00:21response and those donations have varied hugely in size from £10 in an envelope from some lady

00:29somewhere to gifts of £1,000 and sometimes a little bit more but it's that kind of

00:37mix that's really struck us that sometimes something like a thousand people have

00:42cared enough to do this from the great gifts to the small ones and that's really overwhelming and

00:48quite touching in some cases that people have wanted to do support the Cathedral and found

00:53this a place that is deeply meaningful and important to them. At the moment we're around

00:58about the two-thirds mark so we're approaching £200,000 so we've got a little bit to do we've

01:04got another chunk of that money to get in we're optimistic that we're pursuing various kind of

01:11contacts and conversations and we hope that we will get there. There was obviously an initial surge

01:17but we're still really hopeful and expectant that we will get to that target if we possibly can.

01:23Obviously since the start of the campaign we've had a lot of people saying that the

01:27Church of England perhaps should be putting more more money into cathedrals like Peterborough

01:31across the country what what do you think do you think that the church should be should be doing

01:35more to support? There's huge demands it has to be said on the church at the moment you know

01:41there are not only 42 cathedrals which are each of them in their own way very you know have you

01:46know placed quite significant financial costs and demands there are 42 diocese many of those

01:53diocese are running deficits you know church going is not the kind it doesn't generate it

02:00hasn't got the numbers that we used to have so having to meet some of those needs. There's

02:05recently been a concern about the fact that the pensions of clergy have been reduced you know

02:10most clergy have you know have sacrificial ministries during their lives and a decent

02:17pension is one of the things that helps kind of recompense them for that in later life so

02:23there are huge demands on the Church of England so I think we can obviously it would be lovely

02:29if they were able in a position to support us a bit more but I think you know the idea that

02:33the it's an illusion to think that they have you know so much money that they could just

02:38sort out all these problems overnight.