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events
EVENTS
This page lists upcoming one-off community events and special services. For details of our regular services, please click here. In addition to the events listed below, St Paul's hosts a popular Babies & Toddlers group and Friendship Group every Thursday during term-time. Please click on the images below to find out more!
Thu 5th Dec, 6.30-8pm
Knit & Natter, Crochet & Chatter
Everyone is welcome at our monthly knitting and crochet group at St Paul's Church Hall, regardless of age or experience - you might be a complete beginner, experienced, or anything in between! This month our projects will have a Christmas theme.
Come and enjoy making friends and being part of a community of like-minded people.
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Tea, coffee and cake will be served. There is no charge to take part, though donations are welcomed.
Sat 7th Dec, 10am-12.30pm
Gardening Team
Everyone is welcome to join us for our monthly Gardening Team meeting!
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Our beautiful gardens are a much-loved and well-used community resource. Come and enjoy helpingus keep them in the best possible shape for the benefit of all those who live around us.
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No tools or experience are required!
Fri 13th Dec, 12-2.30pm
Super Soup Lunch
During the winter months we are delighted to offer a monthly soup lunch at the back of the church at St Paul's.
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Join us for delicious home-made soup with crusty bread, and enjoy a warm, relaxing space, friendly company and conversation, and perhaps a chance to challenge yourself with a table quiz!
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There is no charge, though donations are welcome.
Sat 21st Dec, 9.30am-11.30pm
Christmas Connect Café
Join us for this festive edition of our popular monthly community café in the Church Hall!
As well as the customary good coffee, good company, bacon butties, toast and marmalade, we will be serving pigs in blankets, mince pies.
​No charge, but donations are welcome.
Sun 22nd Dec, 10.30am
Dress Up Nativity
For this year's Nativity service we encourage not only children but those of any age to dress up in costume, as we retell the story of Jesus' birth.
Sun 22nd Dec, 6pm
Outdoor Carols and Carol Service
Our evening begins at 6pm with carols sung outside the church around the tree, accompanied by brass band.
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Mince pies and mulled wine will be served after the singing, before we move inside church for our traditional carol service, which begins at 7.15pm.
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Please do join us for any of all of the evening's events.
Tuesday 24th December
Christingle & Midnight Communion
Our hugely popular family Christingle service is always a highlight of the festive season. Join us at 5pm to sing traditional carols, to make your own Christingle, and to share the fellowship of the Christmas season on the eve of Christ's nativity.
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Then, at 11pm, we celebrate the coming of our Lord by sharing communion together, just as Christmas itself arrives.
Wednesday 25th Dec
Christmas Day
We celebrate Christmas with two morning services.
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At 8am, we will share a traditional service of Holy Communion according to the BCP rite.
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At 10.30am, we will share the joy of Christmas morning in a family Christmas Celebration.