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Charity in Focus 2024 St Giles Centre Refurbishment At our PCC meeting held on Monday 13th October 2023 the PCC decided to suspend our charitable giving for the whole of 2024, with the exception of the Parish Fete.  The reason for this is that we hope that work on the St. Giles Centre will begin in earnest in the summer of that year.  To date we do not have a clear picture of how much this work is going to cost but it will certainly be a substantial amount.  Consequently every month we are going to ask our Church and community to contribute to a particular area of the refurbishment work.   For example in January the focus will be on raising money to replace the roof in the main hall, a new floor and lighting.    In February the emphasis will be on the redecoration of the main hall.    Then in March we will move to the refurbishment of the kitchen and so forth until we have covered every aspect of the work.   More information on this will be available as the work builds momentum.   Read More Raffle Prizes - St. Giles Centre We are planning several Raffles in 2024, to raise funds for the St. Giles Centre Refurbishment and would welcome your support.  Did you receive a bottle of spirts or wine for Christmas that was not to your taste? Or maybe a beauty Gift set, box of biscuits or Chocolates/liqueurs that are just not for you?  Please donate your new unwanted gifts to St. Giles to help us create several beautiful Hamper baskets of delights, to raffle. The above list is not exhaustive, we would be grateful to receive a new book, apron, vase or anything else which you think someone else will love.  Please place donations behind the font, in the large shopping bags marked accordingly. Items will be collected after the Sunday and Thursday morning services. Thank you for your generosity and continued support. St. Giles Fundraising Team Read More

Fabric Maintenance Morning Saturday 12th October 9:30 - 12:30 Calling the gentlemen and ladies of St. Giles.    Please come and spend a few hours helping in our Churchyard and Church.  Please bring rakes, tree saws, forks, shovels, spades, brooms etc. Meet in the Church grounds Many thanks, Andrew Bailey, Churchwarden   St. Nicholas Toddler Groups St Nicholas church has had to take the very difficult decision to stop running its own Toddler Group, so it’s great news that two new groups are going to be starting! Pop-Up Play Village Baby Explorers Unfortunately and with immediate effect   'Messy Church' will longer be running. Recycle your used postage stamps for Charity Thank you to everyone who donated stamps to raise money for "Against Breast Cancer UK" Against Breast Cancer funds pioneering research into new treatments, tools for earlier diagnosis and advice to reduce the risk of recurrence and secondary spread. Working with expert scientists, the charity wants to increase the survival rates of all breast cancer patients and ultimately, discover a vaccine against breast cancer.  Please continue to save your stamps at home and we will have another collection in December and January.  https://www.againstbreastcancer.org.uk/ Community Larder & Warm Space Tuesdays from 10:30am Just a reminder that our Community Larder runs every Tuesday morning at St. Nicholas church. We are now also opening up our building as a 'Warm Space' from 10.30am - 12.30pm every Tuesday. Anyone can come along and enjoy the Warm Space from 10.30am, and will also be able to access free fresh food and grocery items from the Community Larder from 11.30am onwards, along with a free cup of tea or coffee. Please do advertise the Community Larder and the Warm Space initiative to anyone you know who may be interested.

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Alfie Beston - Organ Scholar

I am delighted to announce that Alfie Beston has accepted our invitation to be our Organ Scholar here at St. Giles.  Some of you will have already heard Alfie play at various services and those of us present have been very impressed with Alfie’s playing ability and musical talent. 

When Alfie is not playing the organ he is also a member of our Church choir and we are very grateful for his ongoing commitment to the musical life of St. Giles Church.  The Anglican choral tradition is very important both to me and to many people at St. Giles and I am pleased that through our support of Alfie we will be making an important contribution to the long term future of church music.

Matthew  

Coach Trip to Canterbury for
Christmas Market

Wednesday 11th December

As a change we are going to the Christmas Market at Canterbury.  After many years it will be in the grounds of the Cathedral.  Come and join us for a fun day out.  Book quickly as tickets go fast.  The coach will leave Farnborough (outside the school) at 9.30 a.m.  and leave Canterbury at 5.00 p.m.  Plenty of time for shopping, lunching and viewing. 



Event Information

Tickets are £17 (does not include the Cathedral).  If you wish to visit the Cathedral you will need to pay on the day. 

Contact: Carol on 07951725069 or carol@stgileschurch.uk.