In September, St Andrew’s will be marking the United Nations International Year of Biodiversity with a short series of services on the theme of Creation Flourishing. There will also be a special evening in St Andrew’s Hall on Wednesday 8 September at 7.30pm entitled Antarctica, climate-change and you. Our speaker will be Jonathan Shanklin who, when he’s not ringing the bells at…

There are still a few places left for this year’s Holiday Club, which this year has the theme Junior Heroes. Anyone between the ages of 5 and 11 is welcome to join in.  It runs Monday to Friday, 9.45am – 12.30pm.  For more information and to book, please contact Caroline Lamaison on 361781

Read Mike Dawson’s account of the recent parish weekend and his long and winding journey home here.

Alasdair Coles, priest and neuroscientist, will be giving a talk and leading discussion on  Wednesday 7 July, 7.30pm, at St Andrew’s Hall. All are very welcome.

Wednesday evenings from 7.45-9.15pm in St Andrew’s Hall. All are welcome (to any or all of the sessions). 16 June The Jesus Prayer, Bishop Simon Barrington-Ward 23 June Praying with Scripture, Eleanor Whalley 30 June Prayer & Creativity, Tricia Troughton

We have ancient links with the town of Vercelli (near Milan, in Northern Italy). Here’s a short video with many scenes of the town. Photographs are by Andrea Cherchi, with thanks to Professor Gianna Baucero for making the video available to us.