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BISHOP’S CLEEVE

» Free Flu vaccination is being offered to everyone aged 50 and over at Badham’s Chemist, 23 Church Road, Bishops Cleeve, GL52 8LR. No need to make an appointment just walk in. For more information contact Tel: 01242 672653 or email: pharmacy.frn12@ nhs.net

» The next event for Rendezvous at the Tithe Barn is, Friday December 9, Peter Gill & The Good Time Charlies present A Swingin’ & Rockin’ Christmas Evening, a perfect start to the festive period. Pay on the door £15. For more information contact Kelvin Freer on 01242 604546 email kelvinfreer@hotmail.com

» The Methodist Church in Bishop’s Cleeve has launched a Friendship Club. The club will meet in the Methodist Church, off Tobyfield Road, every Monday 2-4pm.

» The Methodist Wednesday Fellowship has resumed its regular fortnightly meetings at 2pm. December 7, Chris Bird. December 21, Christmas Outing. All welcome.

» Cheltenham Street Pastors, (CSP), is an inter-denominational group offering support, and ministry to those who are out in the town late at night. Teams are out in Cheltenham on as many Fridays and Saturdays as possible.

Shifts run from 10pm to 4am covering the middle of Cheltenham town centre and the main night-time venues. Each team works one evening once every four weeks.

Prayer support: As well as Street Pastors each project has Prayer Pastors who commit to pray for the teams out on the street.

Interested in getting involved? For more information contact the administrator: Sarah Chad – cheltenham@streetpastors.org 07443 468797.

Check out the website www. Streetpastors.org - follow links for Locations, South West, Cheltenham.

Chat to John at church or email: john.nixson@btinternet.com if you’d like to ask more.

» 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.

» 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 donations.

» Badham Pharmacy has a special collection point to tackle hygiene poverty in the UK. Required donations, toiletries, female sanitary products, baby wipes, nappies and laundry products.

» The Cleeve Common Trust News. The Memorial Programme has been running for several years now and allows local residents to donate in memory of a loved one that will support the conservation of Cleeve Common. A plaque is then placed on the Memorial Wall in their honour.

On the existing Memorial Wall, the upper two faces are full, but the lowest tiers of the long sides are vertical and can be used for narrower plaques. We are also building a second Wall near the iconic ‘Three Sisters’ or ‘Twin’ beech trees, and we hope to be able to accept plaques by the end of the year.

For more information or to apply for a plaque, please see our website.

For information on events and how to support the Trust contact, Parish Office, Church Road, Bishops Cleeve, 07471 687 877 – Ranger: 07756 828 458.

» The St Michaels Centre Trustees and Volunteers are currently holding periodic tea and cake afternoons, for Hosts and Ukrainian Refugees and are also providing facilities for English lessons on a Monday evening. It is all part of our outreach activities.

As a result of these get-togethers, we have identified some needs within this community that we feel our Church family may be able to help with.

If anyone feels able to help or knows someone who might be able to or if you need any additional information please call or email Nick Watson on 07968 071508 or nrew1955@gmail.com and I can put you in touch with them.

» The Alpha Course will begin from

January 12 for ten weeks, in Woodmancote School. Sign-up leaflets are available on the Alpha Stand in St. Michael and All Angels Church, and Invitation Cards will soon be available. Parishioners will be asked to provide prayer support for the sessions (not necessarily on-site), and for people to help with Welcome and Hospitality, and with transport. Please consider whether you could offer some help and let the Church Office Team know if you can. Email: admin@stmichaelsbishops cleeve.co.uk or telephone 01242 673612.

» Volunteer minibus driver needed. Cleeve Carers and Friendship are looking for a volunteer minibus driver to enable us to use the Stoke Orchard community bus for outings four times a year.

The driver must be aged between 25 and 70 years of age, have a clean license and a D1 on their licence with experience of driving similar vehicles.

If you can help please contact Sally Lavis, Pastoral Assistant, via Church Office or on 01242 673835.

» Volunteers Needed for Christingle Preparation. In preparation for the Christingle Service on December 18, we require 2 or 3 volunteers to help prepare the Christingle oranges and packs on Friday, December 16.

If you are able to help please contact the Church Office on email at: admin@stmichaelsbishopscleeve. co.uk or telephone 01242 673612.

» Gotherington, Woolstone and Oxenton WI, host monthly meetings on Wednesdays, in Gotherington Village Hall at 7.30pm. New members welcome. For more details contact 01242 317276

» The Bishop’s Cleeve WI host meetings in the Tithe Barn on the third Tuesday of each month, 7.15pm - 9pm.

December 20, 93rd Birthday and Christmas party.

For more information about meetings, contact www.bishops cleevewi.org.uk or 01242 676647.

WOODMANCOTE

» Woodmancote WI, host meetings at Woodmancote Village Hall on Thursdays at 7.30pm.

December 15, The Spirit of Christmas.

» Woodmancote Probus Club host meetings on Tuesdays at Woodmancote New Village Hall.

Meetings start at 9.30am, followed by the talk at 10.30am. December 6, Creating Eden. December 13, Christmas Lunch. December 22, Glubb Pasha. For more information contact 01242 702573

» Ann Lewis 01242 702573 maggieann1949@hotmail.com