Our privacy policies have been updated to version 1.03. See our Policies.

Soon, St Mary’s won’t be able to contact you for many purposes unless you give us your explicit consent, under new data protection laws. Please download and return the completed form to the parish office. You can give exactly the consent you want on the form, depending on how and when you would like to be contacted by the clergy, churchwardens or church office.

Please consider joining our electoral roll (which is the nearest thing a C of E church has to a membership list). The roll allows you to attend the Annual Parochial Church Meeting and vote in its proceedings (and extraordinary meetings). It is open to parishioners and regular worshippers over 16 who have been baptized and are happy to sign up to its provisions. Full details are on the form. In order to join in time for this year’s APCM on 29 April, forms must be returned to the Parish Office by 12 April.

St Mary’s wishes to appoint a part-time publicity and social media officer, working 8 hours a week. Closing date 25 January.

We recently discovered two broken girders in the bell-tower, so unfortunately no bell-ringing can take place at church until they can fixed by a specialist bell foundry (for reasons of health and safety and to avoid further damage to the bell frames). Watch this space for more news: bell-ringing will start again as soon as the repairs can be made.

In addition, there will be Sun 27 Nov: 5pm Advent Carol service Sun 4 Dec: 11am Brief Praise@11 service and decorating the church for Christmas Sun 11 Dec: 5pm All-in all service Preparing for Christmas Sun 18 Dec: 11am Toddle Up! Christmas nursery rhymes for toddlers More details will appear here soon.

Since 1990, more than 124 million boys and girls in over 150 countries have experienced God’s love through the power of simple shoebox gifts. Hundreds of people in our local community contribute filled shoeboxes to this project, via St Mary’s, every year. Bring your filled shoe boxes to the service at 11am on Sunday 6 November; to the Parish Office, open on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays 9:30-12 (but not Friday 11 Nov); or 10am–12noon in church on Saturday 12 Nov. The collection period ends on 18 Nov so don’t miss out! Full details about how to put together your shoebox are at www.samaritans-purse.org.uk or pick up a leaflet in church.…

On 26 June 2016 Nigel Bird gave the following report on the progress of our giving campaign: Just over one month ago I was privileged to stand here and tell you all about our ‘Giving to Support St. Mary’s’ campaign. The launch was well attended and the response to the campaign has exceeded our hopes. 60 households – some individuals, some families – responded. 34 of these were already using one of the methods of planned giving and 26 are new to the planned giving scheme, and are going to give using one of the four methods (parish giving scheme, standing orders, weekly envelopes, or monthly envelopes). During the launch…

Apologies: The NESCOT cafe has had to be cancelled on 5 January 2016.