Getting involved: 5th October 2025

Activities

 

• Welcome Conversation - An open discussion group led by a different person each time.  Third Saturday of the month at 11.00 am.  On Saturday, 18th October 2025,  we will be looking at Caravaggio’s The Calling of St Matthew (1600).

• Green Gym runs from 2-5pm every Monday, mowing, strimming and trimming the churchyard. 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. We remove plants and saplings growing by and damaging graves.  We also work on increasing the biodiversity of the churchyard.  Future dates are: 11th October, 8th November.

• From March Tombstone Tuesday meets twice a month from 6.30pm.  We restore, repair and reset gravestones. You're welcome to join us in the Wellington afterwards. Dates in 2026 to be announced. 

• Gravestone and memorial recording project.  Supported by local historian Andy Buchan, we are creating a record of every memorial which will be lodged with the local records office and the church. Training is provided and we arrange to work in pairs to complete this exciting project.                      

• For information about any of these volunteering opportunities, please talk to Nick Stephenson or Caroline Plaice (warden).

• Horfield Families Group   October 8th – Talk by Vera Seaman, 26 years behind the screen – working in a Post Office.   7-30pm Parish Hall.  Visitors welcome.

• Mothers Union Meeting - Thursday 9th October at 2.00pm in the Helliwell Room.  A crafty afternoon.

• Open Afternoon and Community Event (our Parish Conference this year) – Saturday, 18th October – 2-5pm. Come and discover, explore and experience our sacred spaces. Tea and cake available throughout the afternoon.

• Coming to Holy Trinity in Advent : A sparkling production of dance, theatre, song and poetry, 6pm on Friday, 12th December in Holy Trinity Church Hall

 

We are delighted to be hosting a performance of Journey of the Magi, Springs Dance Company’s popular Christmas production.  Journey of the Magi is a fast-paced, brilliantly witty performance inspired by T. S. Eliot’s poem of the same name. The show offers a contemporary comparison between the quest of the wise men 2000 years ago, and our own preparations in the run up to Christmas.

Relatable characters help viewers to be inspired in their own “journey” to Christmas Day and can help them think about who Christ is for them.

 

After being offered to families at school and the Friday club, remaining tickets will go on sale through Eventbrite. Don’t miss out, as seats are limited. Look out for the Eventbrite link in the Pew Sheet from end of October.

 

In the week before the show, Springs Dance will be holding Workshops with Year 5 and 6 in our linked school Horfield CE Primary, and in the Horfield Young People’s club. These will be on the theme of Refugees Through learning, creating and performing movement children will explore themes of welcome and showing kindness. Children can make connections between Mary, Joseph and Jesus’ first journey together and the many journeys of refugees

taking place across our world today.

 

Finally, please pray for all who will watch Journey of the Magi. You can take a sneak peek by viewing the trailer here. The show offers a unique opportunity to laugh, reflect and refocus during Advent, putting Jesus, and the precarious situation of all refugees, at the centre of our thoughts, prayers and actions this Christmas.

 

• 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.