Living a More Sustainable Life

Lay Preacher Paul Murphy has recently reminded us that, though we might feel helpless to affect the bigger issues, even small changes to our lifestyle can help to lessen our adverse impact on the environment. He has produced the following booklet to help us make lifestyle choices to reduce our carbon footprint. (When printing ensure […]

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Palani Fundraiser – Another Success Story

Chef Saju Mathew’s legendary curry evenings are now so popular that there is usually a waiting list in operation! Yet another successful fundraising event was held on Friday, when over 80 people were catered for, with guests enjoying a varied menu including lamb biriyani, tandoori chicken, lentil spinach curry, and vegetable jalfreze.  As usual, there […]

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Palani Mission Curry Evening Success

Yet another successful fundraising event was held on Friday when more than 70 guests enjoyed one of Saju Mathew’s famous curry evenings.  Our former minister, Revd Ruth Dillon, started the evening off with a video-link message and a prayer.  The menu included lamb vindaloo, butter chicken and chickpea masala, all prepared by Saju with the […]

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Craft Fair Supports Local Disadvantaged Children

After a break last year due to the pandemic, our Autumn Craft and Gift Fair was back this autumn and proved as popular and well supported as ever.  Visitors enjoyed browsing the stalls, all laden with tempting and beautifully crafted gifts; and the tasty refreshments on offer were an added attraction (especially the bacon butties […]

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More Goats for Palani

We are delighted to hear that, thanks to our ongoing support of Palani Mission, we have enabled twelve more goats to be bought and given to twelve families.  Goats are particularly useful because families can milk and breed from them. Sheeba John, wife of the Revd John Abraham, pastor of the Mission, writes: ‘Thank you […]

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Volunteers Needed

We are looking for more volunteers to help with the food preparation for our monthly drop-in afternoons. You will only have to help every other month, if enough people volunteer. It should take about 2 hours of your time, from 10am in the morning until 12noon. You will be making sandwiches, warming up soup, and […]

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Garden Party Treasure

The garden party held in June was a very successful event, raising an impressive sum of £212.60 for the Hospice. Guests were treated to tea and scones, with entertainment from ZeBoyz, Michael’s son’s ‘fusion’ band, as well as a game of croquet for those who wanted to play. The game was won by Diane, after […]

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