Getting involved: 24th August 2025

Activities

• Welcome Conversation - An open discussion group led by a different person each time.  3rd Saturday of the month, 11am.  No meeting in August.

• Green Gym runs from 2-5pm every Monday, mowing, strimming and trimming.  Training is given in using any equipment.

• Sapling Saturday is on the 2nd Saturday each month, 9.30 to 11, finishing with coffee, cake and a chat.  Future dates are :    12th September, 10th October, 14th November.

• Sapling Tuesday runs on the last Tuesday each month, 6.30 to 8pm. You're welcome to join us in the Wellington afterwards.  Future dates are :  26th August, 30th September, 28th October.  

• Organ Recital  - Saturday, 30th August at 3pm, followed by tea and cake.   Organ & Vocal Recital will be given by organist Pavlos Triantaris and mezzo soprano Marily Kritikou, both accomplished musicians from Greece.

• The Decibells Handbells Team invite you to come to a taster session on Wednesday, 10th September in Church from 2.00 to 3.30 pm.

• Gloucestershire Historic Churches Trust – Afternoon Tea at Holy Trinity, Saturday, 13th September, 3.00 pm

• Harvest Thanksgiving – Sunday, 28th September.  Harvest lunch after Mass, see pewshseet for all the details.

• Pet Blessing Service – Sunday, 5th October

• Parish Conference – Saturday, 18th October

• Chartism and Holy Trinity, Horfield: An analysis of the achievements of Mary and John Frost through the voice of three women [working title] – Saturday 21st March 2026 in the Hall.

 

Recording gravestones and memorials project

 

We are about to start a project to record all the gravestones in the churchyard, and the memorials in the church and we are looking for volunteers. 

The process is reasonably simple and training will be given into how to record each gravestone or memorial – the idea is that people will usually work in pairs. This is both for safety, and two pairs of eyes are often better than one when trying to decipher some inscriptions.

 

As yet we do not know how long it will take to cover the whole churchyard and church, the plan is to start in early September, and may take at least a year to complete.

 

Some of the gravestones/memorials have stories to tell and we are looking for people to reveal those stories. These stories may come from the inscriptions themselves or the records associated with the people.

 

Andy Buchan, our friendly local historian will be running the project and providing training.  If you’re interested in getting involved or want to know a bit more, please talk to Nick Stephenson or Caroline (Warden).

 

This is a wonderful opportunity for anyone with an interest in local history, so please share this offer with anyone who might be interested - your grandchildren or neighbours, perhaps.

 

Nick Stevenson

 

HARVEST LUNCH – SUNDAY 28TH SEPTEMBER

 

Tickets now on sale for the Harvest Lunch which will be on Sunday, 28th September after Mass. 

 

Three course lunch at a cost of £10 for adults and £8 for children. 

 

There will be a bar and a raffle. 

 

For tickets, please contact (if not in church) :

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Emma Bickford, Tel. 07791024186 emmapb60@gmail.com

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Kate Davis, tel. 07833714647k8.davis@hotmail.co.uk

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If you are able to donate a prize for the raffle this would be much appreciated. 

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Proceeds go towards the Welcome Project

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PRINTS FOR SALE IN AID OF THE WELCOME PROJECT

 

Would people be interested in taking a print to have framed in exchange for a donation to the Welcome Project?

 

The prints come from calendars which are of work by Australian artists printed as a "frameable image on Archival Art paper".   One artist, Angela Newberry (who also works in Cornwall) is concerned with the natural world, especially wilderness areas.  Another artist, Margaret Preston, was one of the first non-indigenous Australian artists to use Aboriginal motifs in her work.

 

One print has been framed by a local shop Craftworks on Gloucester Road as an example for people to see.

 

Art prints will be in the Welcome area after Sunday Mass up until, and including 7th September.

 

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Jacqui Parkinson’s 'Threads through Creation' textile artwork will be on display at Victoria Methodist Church, Bristol from 25 August to 4 October. This follows on from the exhibition of her ‘Threads through Revelation’ panels in September 2024. Admission is free, with opening times: Mon/Wed/Fri 11am – 4pm and Tues/Thurs/Sat 11am – 6pm

There are two particular events during the course of the exhibition:

• Saturday 20 September at 3pm: Jacqui Parkinson will speak about the three-year process of creating her ‘Threads through Creation’ panels.

• Saturday 4 October 2025 at 7.30pm: 'In the beginning … an evening of readings, music and meditations' to accompany Jacqui Parkinson’s ‘Threads through Creation’.   With the church’s choir singing music from a variety of periods, this will be an opportunity to celebrate creation and creativity, and consider how these ancient creation stories can connect with a more contemporary faith and spirituality in the 21st century.