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!
There will be a Harvest Festival service in St Etheldreda’s Church on Sunday 1st October at 11am. Please bring donations of dried or tinned food for the foodbanks in Banbury to the Church, on or before Sunday.
Help with flower arranging / decorating the Church would be very much appreciated too on Saturday 30th September between 10:30 and 11:30.
An enormous thank you to everyone who helped to make Horley’s Progressive Dinner such a success.
£1485.50 was raised for the church which is hugely appreciated and the camaraderie and community spirit the evening engenders cannot be underestimated.
Our hosts all surpassed themselves, we know how much planning and hard work it takes and as always, we simply couldn’t have done it without you.
Thank you so much to Dave and Natasha for allowing us to descend ‘en masse‘ and then disappear into the night only to return slightly less coherently later in the night.
We will be deciding on next year’s date quite shortly and will let you know as soon as it’s confirmed. We have already had offers to host next year which is great.
With many, many thanks to everyone for such a wonderful evening from all the Progressive Dinner team.
We now have our full number of hosts for the Progressive Dinner on 2nd September.
This means we a have a couple of spare places for anyone who would like to come as a guest.
Please contact Helen Ellis on helenellis101@gmail.com
Due to a fantastic response to our forthcoming Progressive Dinner on 2nd September we are looking for another host.
Even if you haven’t hosted before we will happily guide you through the process and it really doesn’t need to be ‘Cordon Bleu’ cooking.
Please contact Helen Ellis on helenellis101@gmail.com
If you have any toys or books that your children (or grandchildren!) have grown out of or no longer need, please bring them along to the Old School next Saturday morning (24th June) for them to go on the toy stall in the afternoon.
It’s not long now till Horley’s Summer Fete!
As well as the usual stalls (refreshments, home-made cakes, plants, tombola, toys/books and assorted games) there will be a Children’s Garden Design competition:
TheHorleyViews.com 