SOUP kitchen projects in Bradford are continuing their efforts to find a new home after a church was declared too decrepit for the purpose.

The Welcome Project was just one of ten projects, which also included The Curry Project, left without shelter when problems at St Mary’s Church, at Barkerend, came to a head.

Bosses at the Roman Catholic Diocese of Leeds, which owns St Mary’s, had then vowed to try and find another of its properties to allow them to keep up their good work and now St Patrick’s Church in the Westgate area of the city is the front-runner.

For almost a decade, the diocese had let the groups use its facilities at St Mary’s for free but dangerous electrics and a leaking roof forced a decision to close its kitchen area.

A meeting has already been held with some of the groups and the diocese to look at using the old St Patrick’s school building which is attached to part of the church.