OUR FOUNDER

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Mrs Rita Clifton was the founder of Bicester Spiritualist Church  when she met and joined with other like minded people to form the church in  1989. It originally met in a room in The Kings Arms Hotel and subsequently moved around Bicester until settling in the Pop In for a number of years. Following a bequest from a member of the church with a wish that it be put to finding a permanent home for the church in 2010 the search began. Eventually it was decided to buy the KETA club, which is now renamed after the founder as The Clifton Centre . Extensive work  to prepare the building for its use over a year by the Trustees and Committee members and finally  the church was ready  for its members in September 2011. The Centre is hired by a number of local organisations and is in use most days of the week. In 2015 a grant was obtained from Viridor to renovate the two unused changing rooms into two small meeting rooms, with a seperate kitchen and toilet/disabled toilet for addtional availability for smaller meetings that did not require the use of the large hall.