Christmas Coffee Morning Bring & Buy Sale
Christmas Draw (1st Prize £100, 2nd £50, 3rd £25 plus others)
on Saturday, 10 December, 10am-12 noon
This will be the last event to raise money for St Mary’s Church funds in 2011. Please write the date in your diary –
come and meet your friends for a pre-Christmas coffee and chat. The Draw will take place at 12 o’clock; tickets will be on
sale from early October – please try to sell some tickets for us.
Please also help by providing items for the Bring & Buy stall – including cakes and produce but no jumble please – and for the
Bottle Stall. Items can be left with Eric Graham in the Community Centre from Monday, 5 December.
Charity of the Month 1:
The Children’s Society
The Children’s Society
is a leading charity committed to making childhood better for all Children in the UK. Action is taken to protect, rescue
and support Children facing life trapped in a vicious circle of fear and harm, a circle driven by violence, neglect,
poverty and discrimination which destroys childhood and wrecks community living. Children are given the hope and
confidence they need to face the future with optimism. None are turned away. The work of the Society depends on
generous donations from the Public, Supporters and Volunteers. Can you help with a donation? There is literature
to read on the top of the bookshelf along the south wall. For further details write to The Children’s Society,
Edward Rudolf House, 69-95 Margery Street LONDON WC1X 0JL. Tel 0845 300 1128.
Web: www.childrensociety.org.uk.
There will be a collection for the Society during the 9 Lessons & Carols Service.
Charity of the Month 2: CRISIS
CRISIS is the national charity for single homeless people. They are dedicated to ending homelessness by delivering
life-changing services and campaigning for change. Their innovative education, employment, housing and well-being
services address individual needs and help homeless people to transform their lives. Success is measured by tangible
results and value for money.
As determined campaigners CRISIS work to prevent people from becoming homeless and advocate solutions informed by
research and their direct experience. CRISIS have ambitious plans for the future and are committed to helping more people
in more places across UK. Homelessness will not end overnight or by itself, but in taking a lead and collaborating with
others, then change may happen. You can help with the work of CRISIS by a donation into the box on the south wall, which
will be gratefully received. Further information is available in church. For more details write to CRISIS,
68 Commerical Street LONDON E1 6LT. Tel 0844 251 0111.
Website www.crisis.org.uk. A collection for CRISIS will
be taken during the Crib Service.
Previous Charity Fundraising
Monies collected from the box for the October charity, ABF –The Soldier’s Charity, amounted to £31.05 to which the PCC
will add further amounts which will bring the total to about £246.
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Christmas Services
Sunday 11 December
6.00pm - Christmas Concert: Burford Chamber Choir
Sunday 18 December
6.00pm - Nine Lessons and Carols
Saturday 24 December, Christmas Eve
5.30pm - Crib Service 11.30pm - Midnight Mass
Sunday 25 December - Christmas Day
8.00am - Holy Communion (BCP)
10.00am - Sung Family Eucharist (CW)
Christmas Soup Lunch
Fairford Churches Together will be holding their annual Christmas Soup Lunch on
FRIDAY 2nd December
in Fairford Community Centre 12pm—1.30pm
All monies raised will be for charity. We look forward to seeing you.
Messy Space, Sat 17th December
2.00 – 4.00 p.m. Fairford Community Centre
Christmas Party – make, play, sing, eat!
Adults & children (recommended 4 yrs upwards). No charge this month.
A project of Churches Together Around Fairford.
Café Church
Sunday 4th December 4.00 to 5.30 pm in the United Church, Milton Street.
Please join us and
meet friends, play games, talk about issues, hear stories, do crafts, have informal worship & food.
We welcome anyone –any age!
Please note: There will be no Cafe Church in January.
For more information contact Joanne Roberts on 01285 711386.
Organised by Churches Together Around Fairford.
Mothers Union
Our Christmas Lunch will be again at The Bull Hotel on Wednesday, 7th December. Time 12.30 p.m. for 1 p.m. Lunch.
Husbands are invited to this lunch. Please give your name(s) to any committee member if you wish to share
in this annual event. See you all there!
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