The next task was to raise the necessary funding, estimated to be in the order of £20,000 to £30,000 to bring the building back to its original condition. A fund raising drive was initiated through grant funding and donations.
In July 2015 an application was made to SITA Trust under the Landfill Communities Fund for a significant amount of funding. The application was successful and given that some of the work was weather sensitive was scheduled to start in the spring of 2016