Building A Home
For Welcome + For Family + For Community + For The Future
The St Andrew’s Roseville Hall Redevelopment aims to transform our current aging hall into a flexible, welcoming and comfortable space for our parish and broader community to gather and grow.
With your support, we are building a home for welcome, for family, for the community and for the future.
As an extension and redevelopment of the existing facilities, the hall will now feature new flexible meeting spaces, fresh new accessible bathrooms, and a refurbished hall space. Multipurpose seminar rooms will allow our growing youth and children’s ministry to continue flourishing, and a new easy access welcoming space will provide opportunities for us to easily gather as a community.
Providing for church attendees of all ages and mobility, our refurbished spaces will feature level thoroughfare from our worship space to the welcome foyer and hall. A lift will allow easy access to upper floor seminar rooms and balcony.
Our hall redevelopment project will also benefit St Andrew’s mid-week programs including our ESL gatherings, Pilates classes and playgroup, which are all thriving, outward and community facing ministries.
Our hall space has served the Roseville Parish for nearly 60 years due to the faithful provision of God through his people, and we wish to share in this legacy and extend it to the generations that follow us.
Together, with God’s help, we can do this.
How to Give
We are seeking to raise additional funds for this once-in-a-generation project.
Whilst we, through the generosity of the saints of St Andrew’s, have reached our target to complete a basic refurbishment of the hall, additional funds will allow us to complete this project with the inclusion of some important additional items.
We hope that you will prayerfully consider partnering with us to provide a safe, comfortable and flexible space for our community to continue flourishing and growing under God.
Your gifts and pledges are vital to help St Andrew’s reach its fundraising goal. We welcome your gift now, or you can pledge your support over a period of time. The more we receive now will enable us to say ‘Yes’ to the more immediate additional items. Please see below for more detail on this.
Other ways to support this project
We are grateful to the many who can provide financial support to this project, but there are many other ways to get involved.
- Keep on Praying: prayer points are included below, and we will provide specific prayer points for the duration of the project. Your continued prayerful support is essential as we entrust this project to the Lord.
- Talk it up: Let’s get excited for what’s around the corner! Share with your church and non-church networks the exciting news about our building project. We want to continue to invite and engage with the broader community of Roseville, building anticipation and excitement for our new and refreshed spaces.
- Lend us your hands: Before we begin, and for the duration of the build, there are many practical and hands on ways you can get involved. Sign up for a working bee, volunteer to re-set spaces before or after services and keep your eyes and ears open for opportunities to serve our community. Back to Top
A project 10 years in the making …
The need for a refurbished space at St Andrew’s Roseville has been evident for over a decade.
Early stages
A time to pivot
Architects and Project Managers engaged
Considering our options
And today ...
// It’s important to note that it’s not St Andrew’s Roseville, but the Sydney Anglican Property Trust who are responsible for approving and then signing the building contract for this project. Prior to the formal contact being signed, our builders Laycock Construction have been issued a Letter of Intent. This enables them to obtain the essential planning permissions and construction certificates we require to start building as soon as possible after the formal contracts have been authorised. Back to Top
The hall redevelopment will include:
- A new welcoming area with kitchenette;
- Improved entrance way from Hill street, with level and covered access between the new welcoming space, hall and church worship space;
- New accessible toilets;
- New meeting spaces flowing onto a balcony upstairs with lift access, and
- A refreshed kitchen and new storage area in the main hall.
Why are we fundraising?
The current parameters of the building project will provide us with beautiful and very functional new spaces.
We would however, like to complete the project with the following additions to the building scope.
Our construction company Laycock have costed the following and will allow us to add these elements back into the project at a set price, held until the date indicated. Back to Top
Item | Cost | Price held until |
Stage fit out and lift. This is the conversion of our current stage space into flexible meeting spaces, with a lift for access. | $133,540.00 | 1 May 2025 |
Mechanical Platform Allowance. This is required to be put in in place for future air conditioning. | $15,000.00 | 1 May 2025 |
Upper floor kitchenette. We will however install all the plumbing and wiring in place should we choose to add this back in through the project. | $55,541.00 | 1 July 2025 |
Air Conditioning to new hall. All services will be put in place to ensure that if we raise funds they can be added immediately. | $350,000.00 | 1 August 2025 |
Our fundraising must initially go towards servicing any costs associated with the loan from the Sydney Anglican Loans (SAL).
Whilst we are hopeful that we will not need to draw into contingency which the loan covers, it’s essential that if we do, that the loan is paid first.
Learn more about the conditions of the loan below.
After that, we would like to add in all the items listed in the table above, and then use any additional funds for:
- Full installation of audio visual equipment in the hall;
- New furnishings for our refreshed spaces;
- Landscaping; and
- Upgrades to the lower hall (pre school area) Back to Top
About Sydney Anglican Loans
- Sydney Anglican Loans (SAL) is part of the Sydney Anglican Services The purpose of SAL is to advance the purposes of the Anglican Church of Australia in the Diocese by financing the activities of the Diocese without the necessity of executing formal securities.
- SAL is constituted under the Finance and Loans Board Ordinance 1957. As part of the Sydney Anglican Services Group, the Board of SAL consists of the members of Sydney Anglican Services ex officio.
About our loan:
- We have approval for a loan facility of $780,000.00, for a term of 15 years, at a rate of 4.74%.
- Repayments are set at $7,800 per month, however these commence six months after the first loan drawdown or when the loan is 50% drawn, whichever is first.
- If the loan is only partially drawn at the conclusion of the project, the Parish can apply in writing for pro-rata monthly repayments, and this is very likely to be granted.
- If the loan is never drawn, there is an undrawn limit fee of 1% per annum, which equates to $650 per month. This will be charged on the undrawn portion from the day the loan is established (after the loan approval and documentation) until the limit is either fully drawn or the undrawn portion is cancelled.
- We earn 4% interest on our funds deposited with ACPT. Back to Top
Key contacts
- David Rietveld: Acting Senior Minister
- Aaron Black, Luke Hall and Alys Martin: Wardens
- David Vidilini: Treasurer
- Tori Grimes: Fundraising advisor
- Parish project advisors: Andrew Killen, Glynn Evans, Tony Stavely
- Builders: Laycock Construction
- Project Managers: Midson Group
- Architects: Stanton Dahl
Questions? Suggestions? Feedback? Contact us here:
Project FAQ's
It is planned to take about 15 months.
All ministries will remain on site utilising our newly renovated Kelman room and other spaces around the site. This includes all our mid-week ministries.
The 10.30am service will be all ages for first 35 min, then kids and junior youth will go off to break out spaces on site.
We're also looking into a shade cloth to make our space outside the Kelman Room more functional.
- Very happy the hall is getting done, and excited for action.
- Grateful the Kelman room is done, and happy to be exploring new creative options that are now on the table
- Mindful of the practicalities: a massive building project alongside all our ministries.
- Logistically there is a lot to manage, so we will need your help.
- We are encouraged by general church cohesion and excitement around the project, and looking forward to enjoying both the journey and destination with church family.
Yes, our current facilities have aged out of service, and no longer fit for purpose.
We need a space that reflects our community: growing, relevant and welcoming, and that facilitates and houses our ministry.
Our hall project:
- Facilitates hospitality
- Has break out rooms
- Manages sound
- Can be heated and cooled
- Provides equitable access, such as accessible toilets and level access from church to hall.
Great question! Simply visit here to commit your pledge.
You'll see above a key contacts list - if the appropriate person isn't on there, contact office@standrews.net.au and we'll point you in the right direction.
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THANK YOU
We humbly seek that our whole community will prayerfully partner in this work to provide a safe, comfortable and flexible space for our community to continue flourishing, under God.