activities

Artbeat Festival

Artbeat, the Clarendon Park Community Arts Festival, has just come to an end. Christchurch hosted the launch event last Friday, and three classical concerts, on Saturday lunchtime with Marika, Sunday afternoon with the Knighton Chamber Orchestra and Tudor Chior, and Monday lunchtime with musicians from the University of Leicester. The concerts attracted audiences of about 50, and the players remarked…

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Keep up!

The Wild Honey project will soon be starting a new project, Keep Up!, to help people gain confidence with electronic devices (computers, tablets and smartphones). It has been running a very popular drop-in on Tuesday afternoons for about a year now and there has been plenty of demand for help with computers, so it has been decided to start a…

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Christian Aid Week

Christian Aid Week was, as usual in the middle of May. Many volunteers from Christchurch went out to our allotted streets, delivering envelopes and knocking on doors. The result of all this work was £1632.08, an increase of £240 on last year. Does this say something about the economic state of the country, or that so many crises around the…

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Jars of Change

During Lent members of the church collected their small change for the Water Aid “Jars of Change” appeal. The organisers were hoping to raise £250, to pay for a locally manufactured rope pump in Ethiopia. When all the jars were counted the amazing sum of £580 had been raised! Enough for two pumps and a few buckets!! Thanks to everyone…

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A weekend at Willersley Castle

Over 40 members of the church recently spent the weekend together at Willersley Castle in Derbyshire. The Friday evening was spent playing board games, chatting, and relaxing after the journey. I’m told that the Monopoly game went on into the small hours, but I was asleep by then. Saturday was a fine sunny day (after a brief snow flurry during…

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Queen’s Road Street Fair

During the Queen’s Road Street Fair on Sunday, Christchurch opened its doors to visitors to come in out of the cold, rest their feet and have some refreshments. A nativity scene was set up, with a large variety of fancy clothes for dressing up, which was very popular with the children (and their granddads). Despite the cold the street fair…

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