Video: church in West Sussex calls for donations to help restore ‘mighty and impressive’ pipe organ

Vicar Father David Charles, of St John the Evangelist Church in Civic Way, said the church has wanted to restore the organ for two decades.

But he said the amount of money needed is ‘substantial’ at around £80,000.

Fr David said: “We had a real push on this about 20 years ago and managed to get a fair bit of money to a restricted fund for it. But we simply weren’t able to proceed given the magnitude of the project. Over the past year we have been fortunate to have got in a couple of substantial legacies, which were specifically given for the organ fund and we have been successful with a couple of grant applications.”