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2007
June 15th - Arts and Crafts Workshop Day In support of Southend Branch of
Chernobyl Childrens Charity which arranged a holiday here for children from
Chernobyl who are still affected by exposure to radiation
Thursday 23rd August 12.30pm for 1pm
There was a Buffet lunch in the Parish House, All were welcome to come and help
us raise money for MU projects at home and overseas, including the Literacy and
Development Campaign. £200 was raised at a very successful event.
September 28th Coffee Morning for Macmillan Nurses
Once again we organised a coffee morning in the Parish House to support the
Macmillan nurses on Friday 28th September,
between 10am and 12nooon, as part of our outreach. This is a national campaign
and was on local radio and in the press.
Despite the rain we raised £396 and this sum will be enhanced as £200 of it was
given under the Gift Aid scheme.
HARVEST SUNDAY OCTOBER 7th
This was a busy day with something for everyone, including your pets! We had our
Harvest Family Service at 9.30, to which we invited youngsters to bring gifts of
groceries which we gave to HARP working with the homeless in Southend. Grown-ups
were invited to make gifts of money for Christian Aid so that we could help the
poorest in the world in effective ways.
People were invited to HARVEST FAMILY LUNCH on October 7th at 12.30. The
cost was £6 for adults, children under 16 free but donations invited to cover
costs.
In the afternoon of October 7th at 4pm we invited all to bring their pets to our
Animal Service for St Francis-tide. We were celebrating God's gift to us in our
pets and animals and asking for God's blessing on them.
The service was a wonderful occasion enjoyed by all - pets and their owners.
Our Assistant Priest, Revd Lynn Hurry, designed an eye-catching poster for the
notice board outside the church and a number of copies of a poster for inside
the church. She got some of our young people to colour them and all of these
have the names of the artists with them. The final picture is of Saffie the
horse who stood outside the open West Door throughout the service and apparently
enjoyed the music.
November 24th - The of Christmas Fair in the Parish House raised the sum
of £1854.03 for church funds.
November 30th - 3rd December Christmas Tree Festival in church for local charity
groups was a great success.
December 2nd BUY ONE MORE
In recent years people have been very generous in response to our annual appeal
to Buy One More. It works like this. When you do your Christmas shopping for
family and friends, we invite you to "buy one more" gift, which we can take to
HARP, the
organisation that runs the two centres for the homeless in Southend. There are
many families in temporary accommodation in the town who have very little
money for presents at Christmas.
There is a need for gifts suitable for both children and adults; particularly
welcome are toys, toiletries, scarves and gloves, as well as things like gift
tins of biscuits, gift vouchers and money. They share the same problem you have
with finding one, perhaps you could buy one more of those!
2008
LENT LUNCHES Raised more than £244 for Christian Aid.
23rd February Charities Table Sale
Ten local groups were able to raise funds for themselves while the profits for Holy Trinity from our own stalls amounted to £241.94.
LENT Our Lent appeal was in aid of Water Aid. Parishioners were asked to take a label for a jam jar and put their "odd" coins in it. A sum of £1072 was raised and gratefully received by the charity.
6th June We entertained youngsters from Chernobyl for a craft morning and gave them lunch.
14th June CHARITIES TABLE SALE in our Parish House
29th June FAMILY SUNDAY LUNCH in the Parish House in aid of Christmas Tree Festival to be held later in the year.
14th August MOTHERS UNION BUFFET LUNCH 12.30 for 1 pm in the Parish House.
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