We warmly welcome you to the Harnhill Centre of Christian Healing, founded 1985 by Canon Arthur Dodds, whose vision was to establish a centre for Christian Healing.

Through the provision of the Centre’s activities, we provide a safe place offering rest, refreshment and support to those damaged by the challenges and traumas of life events.

Offering prayer ministry appointments and offering both personal and healing residential retreats we offer the healing love of Jesus Christ to all with whom we have contact.

We host regular public worship services and organise and run training courses in Christian healing, wellbeing and wholeness with an emphasis on offering pastoral care and hospitality, alongside which, is a deeply founded intercessory prayer ministry.

Caring for a building dating back to 1584 comes with challenges....

Daunted? – Yes…

Defeated? – No !

Let’s be frank – the thought of having to find £500,000 to re-roof the Harnhill Manor House came as something of a shock – but actually, not a surprise. As anyone who has had building works done in the last couple of years will know, building costs and prices have soared for a variety of reasons. Added to that, Harnhill Manor is a Grade 2 listed building, dating back to 1584 when Elizabeth I was on the throne.

The roof is constructed from what are now ancient beams and woodwork, all of which need careful conservation repair, replacement and attention. About half of the Cotswold roof tiles will need replacing – and Cotswold tiles are expensive. Scaffolding is eye-wateringly pricey and we will need a temporary roof covering to protect the historic fabric of the building during the works.

The plan is to keep Harnhill operating during the work, and thankfully we have other guest rooms available way from the area. To lower energy bills we will also bring the insulation up to standard and maintenance will also be completed to repair the high-level windows in the roof, along with works to guttering, down pipes and chimneys.

We will need to employ experts to deal with ecological surveys in respect of bats – let’s hope we don’t have many or any! Expert advice will also be needed regarding the contract, as well as supervision of the works to protect our interests. We want this job done properly and ‘right first time’, so that the re-roofing will last for (many more) generations.

In spring 2025, we invited a reputable contractor to give us a price for the works - so we know the £500,000 sum is ‘market tested’ and realise this, in turn, gives us the target figure we need to raise. When we are further along with fundraising, we will seek tenders from three reputable building companies with a track record in re-roofing historic buildings, so we can be confident we are securing value for money and assure our funders that the money raised is being cost-effectively invested in the property.

In doing this project we want to ensure that the real work of the Harnhill Centre – of welcome, hospitality, listening, prayer, journeying with people, seeking healing and wholeness – can be done in a building that is safe, warm and watertight. We ask God’s blessing on this venture as we seek to be good stewards of the things entrusted to us in His name.