St Luke West Holloway

The Grand Scheme is an opportunity to combine fundraising and the good people of St Luke’s getting together in small groups for social events.

How does it work? Individual members of the community offer to organise and host an event (in the church, in their home, in whatever location is appropriate). Tickets are sold for the events and the money goes to St Luke’s.

Join in and support The Scheme. (It will be Grand.)

EVENTS PLANNED (with more to be announced, check back regularly)

18-Feb | The Food of Love: Concert of Music & Poetry

04-Mar | Sacred & Profane: Writing Workshop

08-Mar | Menopause Matters

11-Mar | Film Night: Boyhood

11-Mar | Bigger Birding

18-Mar | Easy Peasy Birding

29-Mar | Silver Hallmarking

31-Mar | Games Evening

Date TBC | Climate Fresk

THE FOOD OF LOVE A Valentine’s cocktail of love songs, music and poetry from Greensleeves to Gershwin performed by Justin Butcher, Caroline Faber & Daniel Zappi.

Songs by Irving Berlin, Hoagy Carmichael, John Dowland, George Gershwin, Paul Simon & Hank Williams. Arranged by Harvey Brough (of the Wallbangers). Click here for the flyer .

Date: Saturday 18 February Time: 8pm (doors open at 7.30pm) Location: St Luke’s Church Tickets: £10 available here

SACRED & PROFANE, A WRITING WORKSHOP Co-hosted by the prize-winning poet Jenny Mitchell and Martin Wroe.

Anyone interested in writing is welcome to join us as we explore ‘how poetry can reimagine traditional ideas of the sacred and profane’. Email for more info - martinwroe@mac.com

Beginning at 10, the day will be conversational and informal and finish up with a reading at 3 where people are invited to share their work - and Jenny and I will read from our poems. Here's the flyer .

Date: Saturday 4 March Time: 10am – 4pm Location: St Luke’s Church Tickets: £8 - £15 available here

MENOPAUSE MATTERS Are you going through the (peri)menopause? Can you see menopause on the horizon and are wondering what to expect? Or have you come through the other side and want to reflect on your experience and share your wisdom? Then this event is for you.

Learn what the menopause really is, options for dealing with symptoms (medical solutions, complementary therapies and lifestyle), how to protect your future health, and more. It will also be a safe space for women to share their experiences and swap information about what they’ve found helpful.

You’ll receive a free PDF copy of the book First Steps Through The Menopause by Cath Francis after the session.

This is a female-only event. However, if partners or family members want to learn how to support the menopausal woman in their life, PDF or paperback copies of the book can be purchased for £5 (all money goes to St Luke’s Grand Scheme) – speak to Cath.

Joy Hinson is a retired professor and research scientist specialising in endocrinology (hormones). Cath Francis is a magazine journalist, health writer and author.

Date: Wednesday 8 March (International Women’s Day!) Time: 7pm (TBC) Location: St Luke’s Small Hall Tickets: £10 buy at church on Sunday or email to reserve your place

FILM NIGHT – BOYHOOD Filmed from 2002 to 2013, Boyhood depicts the childhood and adolescence of Mason Evans Jr. from ages six to eighteen as he grows up with divorced parents. Highly acclaimed and with a host of nominations and awards. Drinks and Nibbles provided.

Date: Saturday 11 March Time: 7pm (TBC) Location: St Luke’s Small Hall Tickets: £10 buy at church on Sunday or email to reserve your place

2 BIRDWATCHING WALKS With Andy Harrison Bad Birdwatching Rules apply - if there's nothing to see, we get bored and/or it's wet we’ll adjourn to the pub.

Bigger Birding Bring binoculars and sandwiches. (Binoculars for hire, sandwiches, snacks available at reserve centre) N.B. the £10 ticket fee for this is the donation to St Luke’s for Andy’s expert guidance and facilitating. Participants will need to pay their train fare and £6 entry to the RSPB Reserve. Date: Saturday 11 March Time: 11am – 3pm (approx.) Location: Meet Finsbury Park Station - rear entrance outside M&S at 9.15 (Blackhorse Road, Barking, train arrives Purfleet at 10.36). Or people make their own way to Rainham Marshes.

All meet in Rainham Marshes RSPB reserve visitor centre at 11.15am. Entry free for RSPB members, £6 adults.

Tickets: £10 buy at church on Sunday or email to reserve your place

Easy Peasy Birding Bring packed lunch. Bring binoculars. Date: Saturday 18 March Time: 11am – 3pm Location: Meet Oxford Road entrance to Finsbury Park 11am. Check the park then stroll to and around Woodberry Down reserve Tickets: £10 buy at church on Sunday or email to reserve your place

SILVER HALLMARKS

What are they and what do they do?

If you have ever wondered what Hallmarks are, come along and learn all about them. Bring along any silver item that you would like to learn more about. Norman Willson will lead us through an evening of discovery with a glass of wine and a magnifying glass. Date: Wednesday 29 March Time: Evening Location: TBC – St Luke’s or nearby Tickets: £10 buy at church on Sunday or email to reserve your place

CLIMATE FRESK

St Luke's is Going Green – Are you? Play Climate Fresk and be inspired, consoled and informed about the reality, dangers and demands of climate change. This is a collaborative workshop with a card game that teaches all the causes and effects of global warming, directly from the UN IPCC scientific reports. The team must layout out the concepts of climate change in sequence of cause and effect, with help from the descriptions on the cards, the pooled knowledge of the group, and the trained Fresk facilitator (if you really get stuck), followed by a discussion of what this means for us, personally and socially. Facilitated by EcoCounts volunteer Adam Hardy.

Halfway through we will break for a supper of home-made soup and bread.

Date: TBC - please email so we can find the best date. Time: 6pm (or 6:30 – depends on what suits the participants best) Location: hosted in the Cagnoni Kitchen in Penn Road Numbers are limited so please email pccsecretary@saintlukeschurch.org.uk asap to secure your place and be sent full details. Tickets: £10

BACKGROUND OF THE GRAND SCHEME What is it? An opportunity to combine fundraising and the good people of St Luke’s getting together in small groups for social events.

How does it work? Individual members of the community offer to organise and host an event (in the church, in their home, in whatever location is appropriate). Tickets are sold for the events and the money goes to St Luke’s.

Join in and support The Scheme. (It will be Grand.)

St Luke West Holloway

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