One of the 5 marks of mission of the Church of England is "To strive to safeguard the integrity of creation and sustain and renew the life of the earth”. We are now proud to announce that St Hilda’s Church has been awarded a bronze Eco Church award. Eco Church is a learning community of churches of all shapes and sizes. It provides a framework to support churches and its leadership to take practical action on caring for God’s earth in all aspects of church life.Over the coming months we will begin to work towards gaining a silver award. We would love to invite others to join our Eco Group to guide us through the next steps and to contribute ideas.As in all volunteer roles in church this requires basic safeguarding training, every three years. The training empowers us to know how to make St Hilda’s a safe place for everyone. There will be a Basic Awareness Safeguarding Training session on Saturday 31st August, morning. Please speak to Anne Harris if you’d like to know more.The Eco Group: James Atkinson, Ian Dickinson, Fran Ellis
On Sea Sunday, July 14th at 10.30am we will be remembering the work of the Mission to Seafarers. If you have any knitting please bring it to church on any of the next Sundays, or if you would like us to collect it please give us a ring on 5504027. As always we are very grateful for all the time spent making the lovely knitted items. During 2023, we were able to send the Mission to the Seafarers 90 hats, 18 balaclavas, 29 scarfs and 26 pairs of gloves. I receive letters from the Port Welfare staff of the Mission to Seafarers at South Shields, where the knitted items are now collected to be distributed to seafarers, and from the letters it is obvious how much the seafarers appreciate to be remembered. As always my sincere thanks to our knitters for all the support I receive.Your support would be much appreciated at the service. Please continue to remember the Mission to Seafarers and the people they minister to in your prayers. Many thanks, Judith and family.
As the Summer is here it would be good to get a group of people together who are happy to cut the lawn on a regular basis. If you are able to help please see our Churchwarden Ian asap and we can make a start. Thanks!Please note all volunteers will need to complete the Church of England basic awareness safeguarding training before starting this role.
A fantastic new play kitchen and pocket garden has been built as part of the Parakeet playgroup which meets weekly at St Hilda's. It all looks amazing and we're sure the children who attend the group are going to love it! The Parakeet Playgroup is a weekly art and nature playgroup at St. Hilda's every Friday from 09:30-11am. Parakeet Playgroup is inspired by the playgroup movement of the early 60s and is for families with children 0-5yrs. Pay what you feel, on the door donations are most welcome. Supported by Arts Council England.Find out more about The Parakeet here: https://linktr.ee/theparakeet
