Groups and Events

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Books and Bakes

              Books and Bakes 2023

 BOOKS, BAKES AND COFFEE ON TUESDAY 18th April AT ST ETHELWOLDS HOUSECoffee, delicious pancakes and home-made cakes from 10.30-12 next Tuesday 18th April St Ethelwolds House, 30 East St Helens Street, AbingdonThere’ll be a warm welcome and pleasant places to sit and enjoy your goodies, as well as shelves of nearly-new Beautiful Books to buy (most paperbacks £1 and hardbacks £2)So do come along, enjoy St Eths and some lovely refreshments – and maybe pick up a book or 2 for yourself too!

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Celebrating Diversity

We were delighted to be invited to partner in putting on this event, as old friends Heather-Jane and Isabel explained:

We are wondering if St Ethelwolds would like to partner with us in a music and storytelling event, bringing faith groups together. One of our peace partners, Hanna Yaffe, is over from Jerusalem, so we are building our events around her participation. We hope to bring communities together to create relationships, harmony and understanding.
Doesn’t it sound good? – do join us on Tuesday 31st if you can, and do share the posters and invitation with others.
If you want to reserve a space in advance please email Heather-Jane at   info@spiritofpeace.co.uk.  On the night seats will be allocated on a first come first served basis.
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Books and Bakes

Next Books and Bakes

Browse and buy beautiful books at St Eth’s

Coffee and Home made Cake

Tuesday 7th March    10.30-12

Do join us!

Kindness and Community

Books and Bakes on 21st January was a special one, to celebrate kindness and community, as it fell in the week of the Winter Great Get Togethers, held nationally in memory of Jo Cox, MP

We were delighted to welcomes many visitors and very touched when one of our regular supporters, Barbara, made these hearts for us. The morning was indeed full of kindness and connecting.

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Update on autumn and Christmas events

“Thanks to all of you who have come along to St Ethelwolds House to our Tuesday morning Books & Bakes sessions and to the Christmas Wreath-making Workshop

We have now given donations of £250 to Crisis at Christmas and £250 to Abingdon Food Bank from the funds raised through these events and really appreciate all our ‘customers’ and the time and generosity of our volunteers.

 

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Summer Tea Gardens

Summer Tea Garden

We had our last Tea Garden for the season on Tuesday 30th August, a lovely afternoon to round off a very successful series.

One of our volunteers writes:

How we managed to be SO busy and still make the atmosphere so relaxed and  welcoming is a bit of a mystery – but a very very pleasant one!It all comes down to the warmth and enthusiasm, incredibly hard work and boundless good-humour of our volunteers. Our profits of £167 go to support the Garden Fund towards new planting which will happen before the end of October in the area to the right at the bottom of the garden by the river. This time at the Tea Garden we were able to welcome so many newcomers to Abingdon and the St Eths Community too – probably the most important part of our work. Offering them such a lovely afternoon and the chance to meet others in the glorious gardens is a real privilege. It was lovely havingthe music from Dani, Hamid and Emma as well to make an even more festive atmosphere