In September 2006, the refurbished Sanctuary was opened, providing an attractive place of worship as well as flexibility to use for wider activities. At the same time St Joseph’s Church became available, and the Congregation unanimously agreed to purchase it thus providing a potentially very useful hall in the heart of the community.

During 2007 work was undertaken to make St Joseph’s wind and watertight and since then the building has been used to support a variety of Church and community activities.  

However the lack of kitchen and toilet facilities severely limits the number of uses. Accordingly the Buildings Committee was charged with the task of bringing forward plans to continue the development of the Church Campus and in particular the development of ‘The St Joseph’s Centre’. 

Working with the architects Tod and Taylor the Buildings Committee have reviewed a number of different schemes and options with the aim of providing a St Joseph's Centre that is fit for purpose and if possible integrated with the rest of the church campus.  The latest plan, plan C (Proposal C), was met with the approval of the kirk Session and the following motion was approved by the congregation at an extraordinary general meeting held on Sunday 15th November 2009:-

1 That the congregation approves the adoption of plan C at an estimated cost of no more than £250,000.

2. That action is taken to raise the necessary funding. 

The Congregation were asked to consider contributing financially to what is both an imaginative and exciting opportunity for the Church to create a facility that will be of great benefit to the whole Balerno Community.

External funding would also be sought from various grant-giving organisations but most of the finance would require to come from the congregation. Any donations would be warmly appreciated and could be sent to the Treasurer via the Church Office.