The Shaw Centre Project
Our vision is to provide a community centre for the Runcorn old town area, with a range of amenities and rooms that will encourage and provide space for community activities.
We have formed a partnership made up of individuals resident in the local area and with various interests representative of the local community, including St Michael's Church, who share this vision.
The community centre will further the social well-being, and cultural and recreational interests of the local community. This can include music, sport, dance, drama, visual arts and photography, pensioners groups, support groups, and other community activities.
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Why The Shaw Centre?
William and Mary Shaw arrived in Runcorn in 1875 to establish a Mersey Mission to seamen. The centre of William's missionary was an old, disused mission room in the old Customs House at the bottom locks of the Bridgewater Canal. With the expansion of the port a new mission was constructed in Station Road, with facilities including recreation and reading rooms at the basement level. The work on the Mersey Mission continued under the leadership of William Shaw until his retirement in 1922 at the age of 79.
