<b>Tickets now on sale for our annual pre-Christmas brass band concert and this year we are delighted to announce <a href="https://www.facebook.com/whitworthbrass?__cft__[0]=AZVGwzk6W2aM7JjxGW7T9fk0lCxt2MQt1jvFQmPBtU1o8Rs9K_yDFPIDU6hUD2oyvQW0IWedvGfi4vxC8giOPWWa9N7mLCHTmWhXGhvOTjHN0PWJQ8ipDNuldPBP_u8akNWd4JU0nmTYamUObDI1gyrVG0zI4QcvKRpAMavs93S3P3P76gKyjI6twvG8_cBZGO8&__tn__=-]K-R">Whitworth Vale & Healey Band</a> as "Award Winning": The National Brass Band Championships of Great Britain 2023 Champion Band Section Two</b><b>Tickets can sell out fast so we usually advise booking early.</b>
The Ramsbottom Jigsaw Festival is undoubtably a major fundraiser for our two churches but it is always just as important that it works as a big community event too - one that brings lots of people together to share and enjoy the occasion.While it will be a while yet until we know how much we raised, we can be fairly confident already that it met that second goal if the feedback from visitors is anything to go on.These comments are taken from our visitors book, customer survey slips and Facebook. Thank you everyone for your kind words. They mean a lot to us.
The Jigsaw Festival is over for another year and what a momentous task it is to undertake.What would we do without David masterminding it and overseeing it? A heartfelt thank you David from all of us.Thank you God for the committee who spent hours in the gallery sorting out jigsaws and those who transported them up and down to St. Pauls.Thanks to Diana who organised the refreshments, made rotas and bought bread and delicious fillings to make sandwiches. For those who baked - what brilliant bakers we have, eat your heart out Great British bake off we’re ready for you.Thank you Gill who each morning put fresh flowers on the tables and along with Charles acted as taxi drivers to transport people.Thank you too for the kitchen helpers who washed up hundreds of cups and saucers and prepared wholesome sandwiches.Thanks for the patience of the dissectologists (look it up if you don't know what they are).All of the stewards guiding visitors and customers.The PCC and congregation of St. Paul’s for welcoming us and allowing us to use their facilities.Finally thanks to all who supported the event in any way, without you the festival would not have been the huge success it was!
