Idle church set to become £1.2m business centre

12:00pm Thursday 28th July 2011 in Idle Photograph of the Author By Jo Winrow, City Hall Reporter

Thorp Methodist Church Thorp Methodist Church

A disused church in Bradford is being turned into an £1.2 million enterprise centre, encouraging entrepreneurs to start up their own businesses.

The Wright Watson Enterprise Centre will open in the Thorp Methodist Church, Idle, and offer business support, workspace and resources for very early stage business development.

In addition the project will house an agency to help difficult-to-reach groups in the community into employment.

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allannicho says...
12:17pm Thu 28 Jul 11

Just another sign of the sad decline of churchgoing these days.

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Yorkshire Lass says...
1:13pm Thu 28 Jul 11

How about setting up some youth clubs to get the bored kids off the street corners. Now that would be money very well spent.

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DCarbz says...
1:50pm Thu 28 Jul 11

I was brought up in Idle and Thorpe Edge estate in the 50's when it was first built. There were so many churches and chapels then I doubt if I could remember them all now. Most had a youth club or similar attached to them.
Even when I was a teenager in the 60's I managed to play football for 3 different youth clubs at the sametime, in different leagues of course.
What went wrong?

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Rupert 'shameful' Murdoch says...
2:29pm Thu 28 Jul 11

Maybe because the CoE is breaking all the rules of God?

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Colin Allcars says...
4:04pm Thu 28 Jul 11

Thorpe Methodist Church is not CofE you narrow-minded cretin. The clue's in 'Methodist'

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jj83 says...
6:08pm Thu 28 Jul 11

bloody hell can't people just be pleased that a disused building in Bradford is being turned into something possitive... you're all a bunch on moaners!

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Rupert 'shameful' Murdoch says...
6:39pm Thu 28 Jul 11

Be quiet, you daft racist.
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Oh, and any Church belonging to the Protestant 'sect', is akin to failure.
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As mentioned earlier, you just have to look at the rules they've broken over the years to see what effect it's having (as can be seen from the article).

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Up with the partridge says...
7:12pm Thu 28 Jul 11

All around the country churches are closing which si not neccessarily a bad thing. Times have changed, there are demands on people's time now on a Sunday and we have stopped making sunday special by having it as a day of rest. Churches like pubs both have a place in our society but half as many but make those twice as good.

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Rupert 'shameful' Murdoch says...
9:06pm Thu 28 Jul 11

My last post was in response to the psycho above :)

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Rupert 'shameful' Murdoch says...
10:27pm Thu 28 Jul 11

Quote function seems to be a bit knacked here; just to re-iterate, my first comment was to the psycho called 'Colin Allcars' :)

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