WITHAMSIDE WASTE NOT WANT NOT

Thursday 30th April 2026

Donations from 9.30am to 11.30am

Collections from 1pm to 3.30pm

at St. Michael’s Church Bassingham

A community initiative to help each other through these tough times

(A local, volunteer, not for profit food larder run in partnership

between Greens of Bassingham and the Withamside Parish.)

On the last Thursday of each month Food and Essential Goods can be donated at the Church between 9.30am & 11.30am. This can include fresh products from gardens and allotments etc. as well as store cupboard items and treats! Fresh donations can only be made on the day, but other grocery items and essentials such as nappies, cleaning products, drinks and snacks etc. can be donated at any time, either at church or dropped into Greens Stores. In addition, any monetary donations can be dropped into Greens Stores to enable us to buy fresh bread, milk and other essentials on the day.

Collections are then available from the Church, between 1pm & 3.30pm and are aimed at anyone in our parish who needs that little bit of extra help making ends meet (one box per household) all free! It’s a way of sharing, re-distributing excesses and supporting our own community.

Waste Not Want will continue on the last Thursday of each month.

Please pop the dates on your calendar and support us with donations, volunteering, spreading the word and encouraging people to come along who might need that little bit of extra help.

A warm welcome and sincere thanks awaits all!

ST. MARY’S CHURCH ENTERTAINMENT AND OTHER ACTIVITIES 2026.

A VARIETY OF ACTIVITIES AT THE CHURCH AND IN CARLTON LE MOORLAND VILLAGE HALL.

FEBRUARY

7th and 8th and 14th and 15th. SNOWDROP WEEKENDS. Teas on both Sundays-2.00-4.00 p.m.

Saturday 14th VALENTINE EVENING CONCERT. (Singer and backing group) 7.00 p.m.

Sunday 15th SNOWDROP SUNDAY EVENING PRAYER 5.00p.m.

MAY

Saturday 16th CONCERT 1685. (Quartet, Classical music) 7.00 p.m.

JULY AND AUGUST

EVERY SUNDAY AFTERNOON IN  JULY AND AUGUST. 2.00-4.00 p.m. Afternoon teas.

SEPTEMBER

Saturday 26th CONCERT-FOLK. (Two singer songwriters.) 7.00 p.m.

DECEMBER 

Saturday 12th NETTLEHAM CHOIR. (Carols and Christmas songs.) hat with your team…

The Joy Foundation is a local Christian charity that brings the Good News of Jesus into primary schools through both word and deed. It serves more than 20 schools through regular provision of Collective Worship, videos, lessons, clubs, intervention support, curriculum advice and governor support. In the Withamside United Parish, The Joy Foundation has been serving its schools regularly since 2011.

OUR BEAUTIFUL CHURCHYARD

St. Mary’s Church is part of Withamside Parochial Church Council (PCC for short). In Carlton Le Moorland the PCC has the responsibility for the care of the churchyard. It is only if the churchyard is closed for further burials or interments that it may become the responsibility of the local Parish or District Council.

 All Anglican churches are part of a wider community called a Diocese, which is usually centred on a Cathedral. St. Mary’s is part of the Diocese of Lincoln. It is the Diocese that sets regulations for the churchyards in its area. The fact that the church and churchyard if freely used by the whole community  is a great joy. The church is open every day of the year from 9.00 a.m. until early evening.  Everybody is welcome to come in and spend time this ancient church. The churchyard is a peaceful and beautiful space to wander around.

We would ask you, please :-

• Keep graves and cremation plaques tidy. If tributes are left but not later removed or are broken or past their best, the volunteer churchyard team will remove them. Please use fresh flowers and avoid plastic or other materials. Having to remove and replace tributes makes keeping the areas tidy outside the grave or memorial area more difficult.
• Please take care when using the churchyard. We check it regularly but the ground is uneven and, in areas, the grass is left for wild areas. The headstones are checked but they can shift and become hazardous.
• If you have any concerns please contact one of the church wardens.

Much of looking after the churchyard is done by volunteers. We are always looking for extra helpers. Contact us if you would like to help us.

St. Mary’s has just been awarded the ROCHA Bronze Award for good environmental practice.

HISTORIC TABLE GIFTED TO  ST. MARY’S CHURCH

A table, made using timber from the old Carlton Le Moorland wind powered mill, has been donated to St. Mary’s Church by a local resident, Mrs. Joyce Close. The table has been placed in the entrance area and will be used to display church notices, the visitors’ book, church guides and other information.

The mill was an open trestle post mill. It was built in 1822 and collapsed in 1923. It was demolished in 1951.

We are very grateful for this gift, especially as it has connections with a local resident and the history of our village. Thank you, Joyce.

THE CLOCK IS NO LONGER STUCK

On the 1st November St. Mary’s church clock started again and chimed out the hour!

Thanks to local residents making generous donations, fund raising  activities in the village, contributions from The Witham Staple, Carlton Le Moorland Parish Council and Withamside Parochial Church Council  it was possible to commission The Cumbria Clock Company  to install an automatic winding system.  It was an example of the local community coming together to ensure the success of such a project in a relatively short space of time.

It means that a volunteer no longer needs to climb the ladder to the clock and wind it once a week. It will only need changing when the clocks move back or forward one hour, Daylight Saving Time and Greenwich Mean Time.

It was particularly pleasing to complete the task in 2023. The clock was originally installed by public subscription in commemoration of the Coronation of King Edward VII in 1902. 121 years later, in 2023, King Charles III was crowned.

Pastoral Support Contact Team

For the Withamside United Parish

Neighbourly Care within our Communities.

Within our local communities there already exists a network of people who look out for those who may be vulnerable or are in need of a chat or support. This manifests itself in a variety of ways. Through personal contact and through the many organisations, groups, clubs, and societies that exist within our villages. These are all part of a Neighbourly Caring Community

What does not exist is a contact for people who may want to talk to someone about a particular issue. When a Parish has a Rector then they provide a natural focal point for this kind of support. We do not have a Rector and so the Withamside United Parish has established a small Pastoral Support Contact Team who can be contacted to meet this need. The members of the Team are not counsellors and will not give advice but are all good listeners and where appropriate may be able to offer support in guiding people to appropriate agencies.

If you would like to talk to someone in confidence, then please feel free to contact one of the following people who will do their best to listen to your concerns.

The Pastoral Support Contact Team are ordinary members of our churches who have been DBS checked and have untaken some basic Safeguarding training.

The names and contact details of the Pastoral Support Contact Team are:

The Withamside United Parish Parochial Church Council

A Time to Change Together

Dear friends in Christ,

A Time to Change Together is a huge journey for our diocese and for all of us, and just now we have been making significant steps along the way. Against the backdrop of our challenging world, and praying for peace, justice, sharing and mutual respect, we are putting our affairs into a new order. TTCT is no longer an idea for the future, it is what we are doing now and how we are doing it. Let us pray that our flourishing church may bring its values to the wider community – collaboration, generosity and growth. 

We now have more information about the way forward for our parish of Withamside.’

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