There will be a children’s workshop on Saturday 9th March in the Old School from 10:30am to 12pm for children to make Mothering Sunday flower posies and pictures. Please bring flowers if you have any available.
Everyone is welcome and there will be refreshments and cake!
Please contact Sue Ashdown on 07580628794 if you’d like more information.
There will be a children’s workshop on Saturday 9th March in the Old School from 10:30 am to 12pm for children to make Mothering Sunday flower posies and pictures. Please bring flowers if you have any available.
Everyone is welcome and there will be refreshments and cake!
Please contact Sue Ashdown on 07580628794 if you’d like more information.
It’s 10 years this month since the bells in St Etheldreda’s Church were rung for the first time after a 25 year period of silence. Prior to February 2014, it hadn’t been possible to ring the bells as they had been declared unsafe for ringing due to water damage to the ancient wooden frame.
After a fantastic fundraising effort in 2012 – 2013 led by Mike Patching, the bell frame was restored and two new bells were cast and installed to supplement the original four bells.
We will be ringing the bells to celebrate this 10 year anniversary next Saturday 17th February between 2pm and 4pm.
Listen out – or better still, come and along and see the bells being rung. We have put a camera in the bell chamber so you will be able to see the bells in action as well as the ringers !
Confirming that the Nativity service at St Etheldreda’s tomorrow, Sunday 17th December, is at 5pm, not 6pm as stated in the Horley Views magazine.
Although the situation in Ukraine is not front page news so much these days, donations of food and other items are still urgently needed. A truck will be making at least one more trip this year following a contribution towards the cost of petrol from the proceeds of the monthly village coffee mornings. Please put any items you can contribute in the box under Rita’s porch as soon as you can.
Items especially needed are food (cans, packets of rice, pasta etc), warm winter clothing and bandages. All donations are much appreciated and Rita continues to do great job collecting and taking the items down to central hub.
Christmas services at St Etheldreda’s are as follows:
Sunday 17th December at 5pm – Nativity (not 6pm as stated in the Horley Views Magazine)
Christmas Eve at 11:30pm – Midnight Mass
Details of all services in the Benefice in December can be found here:
https://www.achurchnearyou.com/church/477/news/notice-sheet/grid/
As a Benefice of eight churches we have once again offered to provide Christmas presents for the children of The Sunshine Centre in Banbury.
For those of you who don’t know about this amazing facility, The Sunshine Centre was created to act as a hub for a range of family and childcare support services for the community in Bretch Hill and the surrounding area, this includes Early Years and the Childrens’ Centre.
It is an Ofsted rated, ‘outstanding’ nursery, which provides childcare for children from 3 months to 5 years, organises classes and courses for families in the community, and hosts a range of baby and toddler groups. It also partners with other organisations such as the NHS to provide weekly antenatal clinics.
It is proposed that any presents that are donated should be wrapped in Christmas paper and marked with a post-it note or similar as to what they are and what age and gender the child is to whom they’d be best suited. Small presents with a value of £5 to £10 are what are required.
If you are minded to contribute please leave the presents on or near the main altar in St Etheldreda’s, from where they will be collected no later than Monday 4th December, and taken to the centre.
Thank-you from the staff and children.
Stalls as below, plus try your hand at the Wine or Water, Nice or Nasty and Children’s Lucky Dip!
Don’t miss Horley’s Candlelit Christmas Market in St Etheldreda’s Church on
Saturday 25th November from 4-6pm.
Stalls as below, plus try your hand at the Wine or Water, Nice or Nasty and Children’s Lucky Dip!
Arrangements have now been made for the funeral of our former rector, John Reader, who died recently.
The funeral will take place on Friday 20th October at 2pm at the Parish Church of St Mary the Virgin, Wootton by Woodstock.
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