Events round-up

On Friday, at 6.30pm, Trinity Church will be hosting a ‘One World Week Talk with Soup’. Reverend Canon Andrew Wickens (rector and city faith officer at Stoke Minster) will be giving a talk on interfaith issues. This will be accompanied by soup and a bread roll as well as a pudding. Tickets are £4 and available from the Church Office, or email trinitychurchleek@uwclub.net for further information.

Next Thursday, November 1, 10am–noon, there is a fun and craft Morning for 0-11 year-olds and their parents, and on Tuesday, November 6, 7.30pm, Peace comes to Leek in an an illustrated talk by Richard Benefer to mark the centenary of World War One. Coffee will be served.

The mid-church benefice, comprising St Werburgh’s Kingsley, St

Mark’s Foxt, St Mildred’s Whiston, St John’s Cotton and Holy Trinity Oakamoor, will hold an All Souls Service at St Werburgh’s Church on Sunday, October 28, 4pm. An opportunity to remember your loved ones who have died and to light a candle.

The next grocery bingo night at Swinscoe is to be held on Wednesday, October 31 in the village hall at 8pm.

For further details contact Adrian Clowes on 01335 344673.

Leek Photographic Club is staging a talk tomorrow with images from Mike Sharples entitled The People of Kovalam India. Admission of £3 payable on the door.

The meeting takes place at 7.30pm in the Dove Room, Moorlands House.

Stalls are now available at a village craft fair to be held by the community of Onecote on November 25, 11am-4pm, in the village hall.

The event is in conjunction with a

Christmas Tree Festival to be held during the weekend at the village church.

To book a stall telephone 01538 304218 or 01538 304334.