A TWO-year campaign to raise £14,000 for better disabled access at an Edgworth church has finally come to fruition.

Worshippers at St James Church have now raised enough cash to install a disabled ramp at the front of their church after receiving £10,000 in grants.

But they hope fundraising will continue to enable much-needed maintenance work on the 100-year-old building. The recent grants came from the Garfield Weston Foundation, the Duchy of Lancaster Benevolent Fund, the Eric Wright Group Limited and Blackburn with Darwen Community Network.

Urgent work is still needed to the windows, electrics and guttering.

The Rev Martin Short said: "We have refurbished the downstairs and the kitchen during the last couple of years and the disabled ramp is the next stage.

"We have one lad in the cubs in a wheelchair so the access will make things easier for him and some of our ageing population who are finding the steps a bit difficult."