THE grand draw 2001 for St John with St Augustine's church restoration fund will be held on Saturday night during a concert by the Readstone Singers.

Already £25,000 has been raised through a variety of means but St John's CE Church, Addison Street, Accrington, needs £73,000 to repair roof beams riddled with dry rot and damp spreading across the walls.

Draw ticket sales have already raised £1,200 and it hoped that there will be £1,500 when all the money has come in. A total of 70 prizes have been collected since April from members of the two parishes and local businesses including a first prize of £100.

The concert begins at 7.30pm in the church with the draw in the interval around 8.20pm.