Horley Nativity – your help needed!

The Horley Nativity will take place on Sunday 18th December at 4pm at Saint Etheldredra’s. Things will a bit different this year as our fabulous former director, Tessa, has after 17 years decided to take a back seat. Obviously hers are fairly hard shoes to fill but already we have a great team in place made up of Annaliese, Louisa and Sarah.

What we are looking for is children and adults to take part in any way – be a sheep, a king, an angel, to sing a solo, join the choir or do a reading.

Please get in touch if you would like to be involved.

There will be two rehearsals on the mornings of Sunday 11th and Sunday 18th December.

Please contact Sarah Allitt on 07834 370767 or email allittsarah@gmail.com

Ukraine Appeal

Rita is still doing an amazing job collecting items for the Ukraine Appeal and taking them into the team in Banbury. Thank you to everyone who has been supporting this good cause. If you can help in any way the following are urgently needed:

General household items: Candles, torches, camping stoves, floor and washing liquids, sponges, mops and buckets, toilet paper, kitchen rolls, house cleaning products, single duvets, pillows and bed linen (new or in very good condition please)

Food items for quick preparation: Cans of food with ring pulls, pasta, rice, noodles, chunky soups, cooking sauces, cooking oil, tomato concentrate, flour, yeast, long life/dry milk, tea, coffee, sugar, salt, biscuits, energy bars, dried fruit and nuts, sweets

Medical items: Pain killers, bandages, plasters, disinfectant wipes, disinfectant creams, cough syrups

Babies and children’s products: Nappies, wet wipes, baby milk, baby food, children’s snacks, sweets.

Toiletries: Toothpaste, tooth brushes, soap, wet wipes, shampoo, shower gel, women’s hygiene items, body creams

Items for pets: Wet or dry food

Items can be left in the box under Rita’s porch – if you don’t know the address please ask anyone in the Ladies Guild, as I don’t want to give out an address on this post

Many thanks, any items, however small will really make a difference.

Services at St Etheldreda’s in November

A note for your diaries: as well as our usual Common Worship Holy Communion service this Sunday at 11am (6 Nov), there will be a Remembrance Sunday Service at 10.55am on Sunday 13 November.

For details of the services taking place at other Ironstone Benefice Churches, please visit achurchnearyou.com for the latest Benefice Service Schedule ((located in the Notice Sheets section on St Etheldreda’s page).

Many thanks.

Hornton History Group Time Team Talk on 10th November

Hornton History Group are staging a talk in St John’s Church on Thursday 10th November by a member of  TV’s time Team, Keith Westcott.

It’s all about the huge Roman villa unearthed in the grounds of Broughton Castle.

“Keith started out as a diving detectorist, leading on to important discoveries of national significance,” says HHG’s Laurie Furneaux. “Television’s Time Team have got involved with the Broughton excavation, so we’ll get an early take on the findings with this talk.”




Coffee Morning for Breast Cancer Now – Thank You

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Thank you to everyone who came along and supported the coffee morning in aid of Breast Cancer Now on Saturday.  We raised the fantastic sum of £705!