Sunday School Stories Project | Be a part of history | Union Chapel, Islington

The Sunday School Stories Project will deliver an engaging activity programme co-created with and for the community as well as essential repairs to the Grade II* listed Sunday School building. Alongside this, an archive of some of the greatest moments in Union Chapel’s history.
Whether you love Union Chapel for its stunning space or acoustics, its rich history of social justice, its stunning Grade I and II* listed architecture or you love it for its music, participatory arts or its work with people at risk of crisis or homelessness, the Sunday School Stories Project is one of the biggest and most exciting developments in recent years and the big day when we open the transformed Sunday School Hall with its new look and new programme is getting closer...
We're so close - we've successfully secured 79% of our target to transform our Sunday School Hall and deliver an engaging programme and bring an interactive archive with, for, and by the community.
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This is now our last push to reach our fundraising target ahead of the works’ start date in April 2024.
To date the Sunday School Stories Project have received the outstanding support of:
o The National Lottery Heritage Fund & National Lottery Players
o Wolfson Foundation
o Garfield Weston Foundation
o Foyle Foundation
o Clothworkers’ Foundation
o National Churches Trust
o Benefact Trust
o The Rose Foundation
o Friends of Union Chapel
o Individual donors
Thanks to #NationalLotteryPlayers
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Original footage credits:
Director: Tom Thistlethwaite
Produced: Barbara Basini & Rachel Booth
Music: Wrangham by Claire M Singer, published by Touch Music/Fairwood Music (UK) Ltd.
Speaker: Faye Davies of Burrell Foley Fischer Architects bff-architects...
The original films were supported by Historic England, as part of
Union Chapel's Heritage Programme, and can be watched in full at • About Union Chapel
Many thanks to all the interviewees, volunteers & Gavin Murphy.
A special thanks to the Friends of Union Chapel for their contribution, knowledge and enthusiasm in preserving the archive and repairing
the original library shelves.
Image credits in order of first appearance:
Lamb performing at Union Chapel © Tom Leentjes
Anniversary Concert © Cath Dupay
Margins Kitchen © Daniela Sbrisny
Night Shelter in Lower Hall © Daniela Sbrisny
Mrs H sing along event in Sunday School Hall, courtesy of Union Chapel Project
Donations in Sunday School Hall, courtesy of Union Chapel Project
The Jungle Rehearsals © Marc Brenner
Sunday School CGI © Natalia Zwardon Studio
21st annual Rose Day, 1963, from North London Press
Sunday School in 1969, courtesy of Union Chapel Project
Sketch proposals © Burrell Foley Fischer
Roof tiles © Daniela Sbrisny
Archive Working Group, courtesy of Friends of Union Chapel
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