Annual Project Information

These are some of the things we get up to...

Weekly and/or regular activities. Please contact the Centre for more details.

Sundays

Worship Services at 10:30am and 6pm, Youth Church and Crèche at 10:30am, Breakfast Praise, normally the 2nd Sunday from 9:00am for breakfast, start 9:30am..

Mondays

Wesley Guild - 7:30pm (Winter at 4pm) September to April.

Tuesdays

Stop-Off for tea, coffee and lunches - 11am to 1:30pm.

Lunch time service (Oasis) - 1:05pm to 1: 25pm.

Women's Fellowship fortnightly - 3pm.

Housegroups - 7:30/8:00pm as arranged.

Wednesdays

Keep Fit (low impact aerobics) - 9:45am.

Parents and Toddlers, school term time - 1pm to 2:45pm.

Wives Group, school term time, fortnightly- 1:45pm.

Band Practice - 6.45pm, instrumentalists welcome.

Alpha and other nurture groups - 7:30pm as arranged.

Informal badminton in church hall - evenings as arranged.

Thursdays

Study Group at the centre - 2pm (usually fortnightly)

House Groups - 7:30pm as arranged.

JAM (Jesus and Me) club affiliated to Crusaders - 5:00pm onwards

Fridays

Meet for Prayer 9:45am to 10:45am.

Pop in for tea and coffee with Traidcraft stall 10am to 11:30am.

Whist Club - 2pm.

Choir Practice - 7:30pm.

Cricket Practice as arranged - during the summer.

Saturdays

Cricket - 2:00pm as arranged during the summer.

Other Events as arranged

BFG (Big Friendly Group). More about BFG

CAMEO (Come And Meet Each Other). More about CAMEO

SMASH (Sunday Evening Discussion Group). More about SMASH

Church Weekend away at Brunel Manor, Torquay.

NCH Action for Children sponsored walk. More about NCH

Annual Project

The Church has an annual project(s) for which money is raised.

The Church fund raising project for each Methodist year is chosen by church members and friends.

CHURCH PROJECT 2005/6

September 1st seems to come around quickly. And so a new Church Project starts to run until 31st August 2006.

This year church members voted for MILDMAY which deals with the problems of HIV/AIDS affecting children in Africa.

Steve Small, Deputy Chief Executive, Executive Director of Resources at Mildmay Mission Hospital based in London (www.mildmay.org), who was a member of this church until taking up this position, advises the money we raise will be designated for their 'Treatment & Welfare' Fund, which effectively provides free treatment for children in Africa. They work on the average cost of £12 per month, £144 per year to provide free care and treatment.

Again our Church Project target is £3,000 raised from various events and regular giving throughout the year.

If you would like to learn more keep you eyes on our monthly Newsletter and if you wish to contribute please contact our Reception Desk any morning.

In the first fortnight over £440 has been raised by one of our members cycling around the 14 chapels in the Midsomer Norton Methodist Circuit, similar to last year but in reverse order. A fuller report will be in October’s Newsletter, The Ambo.
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Previous Projects:

2004/5 - Friendship Clinic - Nepal is a charity which aims to improve the water and sanitary conditions in an area where 38,000 children die each year before reaching their 5th birthday, from diarrhoea due to poor water supplies.

Simply giving villagers access to a nearby tap stand, or deep well and hand pump, will transform their health; proper sanitation and training will enhance the quality of lives.

£250 pays for a completed well and all educational training.

Our Church Project target for the year is £3,000, which we will raise from various events.

2003/4 - CHILDREN'S HOSPICE SOUTH WEST and is for a new hospice north of Bristol. Again our target is £3,000. The local vicar's wife, Dianne Chiplin, is the local fund-raising contact and has given us the following information:

Children’s Hospice South West has been caring for children with life-limiting illnesses and their families for eight years now. It provides respite care for over 200 families each year and the need for the unique facilities and support CHSW provides is growing.

For many such families life is a real struggle. Caring for a very sick child dominates family life. Well siblings can often feel left out, family activities and time for themselves is denied. Few will get a full night’s sleep or a normal mealtime and many parents have to learn complex medical techniques. They also live with the constant underlying knowledge that their child may succumb at any time and the fear that they may not be able to cope.

Little Bridge House has been able to take much of the fear out of living by providing regular respite care in a place of love and understanding and a sense of community for the whole family. As a child’s condition deteriorates expert palliative and terminal care is given and then support for the family into bereavement for as long as is wanted.

There are over 700 children in the South west facing death in childhood due to life-limiting and threatening conditions. The demands on Little Bridge House have increased to the extent that the vital need for a second children’s hospice in the North of the region, near Bristol, has been clearly demonstrated. An ideal site was found earlier this year.

Charlton farm, on the Tyntesfield Estate, near Wraxall, will see the restoration of some unique farm buildings and will conserve the tranquility of the surrounding countryside. Planning permission has been obtained and it is hoped building will start early next year with the hospice opening in Spring 2006.

The new hospice will build on the experience of Little Bridge House, providing whole family care in a home from home environment. It will have eight child friendly bedrooms, with nine bedrooms for parents and siblings, four spacious sitting rooms, a multisensory room, a Jacuzzi, large gardens, ample provision for play activities, an indoor winter garden, enhanced facilities for teenagers, a meditation chapel, rooms for counseling and bereavement care and Starborn - the special room where a child may lie following death.
CHSW needs to raise £15 million to build, equip and endow with initial running costs Charlton Farm. Once built, the hospices will run as one foundation and families will be able to choose to which one they would prefer to go.

We have an exciting and challenging time ahead but the new hospice will make such a difference to the lives of so many more families who are experiencing the even more daunting challenge of caring for a child who will die in childhood.

So I thank you on behalf of all those families, for choosing CHSW as your project this year and for the enthusiasm, interest and support with which you have embarked o

2002/3 Childrens hospice South West - please see the newsletters here to find out how the fund raising is going - lots of events are planned - we can't wait for the barn dance!! More information on this project is shown below...clickhere.

2002/3 was in aid of the local community minibus click on this link to see what they are doing...Community Mini Bus

2001/2 was for ‘Children of Chernobyl Fund’ - Wells (continuing victims of the nuclear disaster) and an Indian Village Church Building Project at Saravilai (7 miles from the southern tip of India). An amount of £5,000 was equally split between them.

2000/1 saw £3,000 raised for the local Fosseway School Hydrotherapy Pool Appeal and NCH Action for Children Stargazers Appeal in Jamaica.

1999/2000 We raised £5,000 for Maua Methodist Hospital and Meru Methodist University in Kenya.

Thank you to everybody who have helped or contributed with the previous projects and thanks in anticipation for future years fund raising.

From... The Service Team

Any donations can be forwarded to the church centre - please see the Contacting Us page for details.

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Up-to-date information and progress towards the target can be followed in the monthly Newsletter also found on this web site.