Glorious Gloucestershire Anthea Bircher took this picture at Saintbridge Balancing Pond, Gloucester
ALL SAINTS CHURCH, CHELTENHAM
Sunday services at 8am said Mass. 10.30am Solemn Mass. Evening services on Sundays at 5.30pm, will be a Choral Evensong on the first and third Sundays and said service on the second and fourth.
Week day services. Wednesday 6.30pm Holy Mass. Thursday 11.15am, Eucharistic Service. Friday noon, Holy Mass.
First Saturday of the Month, 10am Walsingham Mass.
Special services for Lent, on Wednesdays March 13 and March 20, mass at 6.30pm.
Following the Mass, there will be talks which will explain the history and traditions of the liturgical celebrations of Holy week, from the Early Church to the present.
The Choir is looking to recruit new singers. All Saints Choir has a long history of offering a significant contribution to the church services by providing a wide range of sacred music.
We are looking for sopranos and tenors particularly, but other voice parts are very welcome. Committed singers, please come along on Friday nights at 7.30pm to sing with us and see if you would like to join us.
If you would like to donate an Easter Lily in memory of a loved one, please use one of the envelopes provided (found on the table by the coffee area) and give it to one of the Flower Guild, or Church official.
Please write the names of the loved ones you wish to commemorate on the front of the envelope, along with your name and contact details. The lilies will be arranged and displayed for Easter
Day. Suggested donation for lily stems of £5 and all donations should be given by Sunday March 24.
Books donated to swap, read, borrow or buy. At a loss to know what to with those Books that you don’t think you will ever read. Bring them down to the All Saints Book Swap Shop.
All Saints Church is open for private prayer and for visitors, depending on the availability of volunteers. The Church Open sign will be put out when the Church is open, everyone welcome.
For information about all events in All Saints Church visit www.event brite.com/cc/ all-saints-churchcheltenham-events-445289
BISHOP’S CLEEVE
Bishop’s Cleeve Methodist Church are hosting an Exhibition at Easter entitled ‘A Celebration of New Life’. This will include exhibiting items which represent new life in all its forms and their place within the Easter story.
If anyone would like to contribute something towards this, it would be gratefully received. The church will be open on Tuesday March 19 and Thursday March 21 between 2-5pm and Maundy Thursday between 10am and 1pm to anyone who would like to visit the Exhibition.
On Saturday March 30 we are having a ‘Crafts Day from 10am to 3pm at which all ages will be invited to come and engage in various craft activities to do with Easter and New’. All are very welcome to all the above events.
The latest report from the Street Fair Committee states, plans are progressing well for the Street fair 2024 in Bishop’s Cleeve. We hope to have a grand procession departing from Cleeve School in Two Hedges Road leading down to the Church Road for the grand opening ceremony at lunchtime.
Anyone can be part of this procession, walking groups, classic cars, anyone in fancy dress, anyone pushing a wheel barrow!
The theme this year is an Old Village traditional fayre. For further information contact 01242 516779.
Bishop’s Cleeve Foodbank. Please can you take any donations to Bishop’s Cleeve Parish Office (next to Tesco’s car park) any Friday morning between 9am and noon.
Please refer to the latest shopping list for further details of shortages on the donating food link at https:// northcotswold.foodbank.org.uk and also details for making direct monetary donation.
Cheltenham Probus Club, host meetings in the Stanton Room in Charlton Kings each Thursday. Arrive from 9.45am for coffee and biscuits followed by a talk at 10.30am.
For more information contact mobile 07748 115653 or landline 01242 255493. Email: mikeabone@ googlemail.com
As well as the usual social activities hosted by The Methodist Church in Bishop’s Cleeve, that of the Friendship Club, every Monday 2-4pm, and the fortnightly 2pm Wednesday Fellowship, a new Film Club will take place on the first Thursday of the month at 2pm, admission free to include refreshments, donations welcome.
This and all social events are open to all in the Community.
Methodist Church Wednesday fellowship events.
March 13, Walking the South Coast Path.
March 27, Easter Crafts. April 10, NSPCC.
Gotherington Singers meet for weekly rehearsals at Gotherington Village Hall on Monday evenings 7.45-9.45pm. New and experienced singers are welcome to come along to meet members of our friendly women’s choir and our new musical director. Please see gotherington singers.co.uk or telephone 01242 317276 for more information.
Cleeve Chorale are welcoming new members, rehearsals are held on Tuesday evenings at Woodmancote Village Hall, 7.45-9.45pm and the choir welcomes tenors, basses, altos and sopranos.
Please email: info@cleevechorale. co.uk or see cleevechorale.co.uk for more information.
Services for Palm Sunday, March 24. 9.30am, Palm Sunday walk followed by Church on the Hill service, meeting point TBC. 9.30am, Holy Communion service at St. Michael and All Angels. Contemporary service at 11.15am
Special Services in St Michael and All Angels for Easter Week.
Maundy Thursday March 28, Holy Communion 7.30pm.
Good Friday, March 29, 11am, all age service.
Easter Sunday, March 31, 11.15am, Easter celebration, with Communion.
Baking Making and Shaking WI are an evening group, meeting at St. Michael’s Centre, School Road, on the first Thursday each month, 7.45pm for 8pm.
April 4, Spring Swishing. May 2, Trip to Garden Centre. Visitors (£3), and new members are always welcome. Please contact by email: bakingmakingandshaking@ gmail.com
The Bishop’s Cleeve WI host meetings in the Tithe Barn on the third Tuesday of each month, 7.15pm-9pm.
March 19, Freewheelers/sales table.
April 16, Gloucestershire Events & Traditions.
May 21, Resolutions/talk on fraud awareness.
For more information about meetings, contact www.bishops cleevewi.org.uk or 07871 993919.
Gotherington, Woolstone and Oxenton WI, host monthly meetings on Wednesdays, in Gotherington Village Hall at 7.30pm. March 27, Just Gems. April 7, 1st Birthday party. New members and visitors welcome. For more details contact 01242 317276.
WOODMANCOTE
Woodmancote Probus Club host meetings on Tuesdays at Woodmancote New Village Hall. Meetings start at 9.30am, followed by the talk at 10.30am.
March 12, GWGC, gardening the world.
March 19, How 100, bright ideas changed the face of warfare.
March 26, Tewkesbury in the 1950’s.
April 2, no meeting.
Woodmancote WI, meet on the third Thursday of the month at 7.30pm in the village hall.
March 21, Through the lens of a Royal Photographer.
April 18, A Beauty evening with Clarins.
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