Sparkling Treasure 

On Town End Farm (TEF), a large housing estate in Sunderland, Unlock work is based in a decommissioned church that is leased to the local Community Association. Jacqueline, our Unlock Town End Farm worker sent us the following - At the Unlock Gathering we talked about where your treasure is, and it got me thinking more about TEF and the people who live there and what a treasure they are.
The people are beginning to sparkle, the parents/carers in the toddler group are beginning to engage with each other more. The craft and chat group are doing more wonderful things. The Friday bingo & chat are wanting to do something different. The Chapel is beginning to sparkle, people are coming in to light candles for their loved ones or just sit in the peace and quiet. They tell their stories when they come in, one lady came to light a candle for her Mother's memory, and told me that when the Church was being built in TEF her Mam went round the doors selling bricks to raise funds for the build. When her Dad died they had a prayer desk made in his memory, she didn't know where it went when they closed the Church. In the Church there is a corner full of ‘stuff' I went over and there right at the front was her Dad's prayer desk. We polished it and placed in the Chapel.
That lady sparkled as she left!