Between Monday 16th until Friday 20th August, we had over 40 young people come to Rocky’s Plaice for Fun, games, craft, music, singing!

Photos and videos to come soon but please email us to be kept informed - we may be having another one soon!

Email info@swanage-urc.co.uk 

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Autumn
Many people have asked if we are to arrange another of the very popular Sankey Evenings. Plans for this are in hand, but a date has not yet been set. Please watch this space for an announcement in due course.

If you have been a regular visitor to the Church website, you could be forgiven for thinking that nothing has been happening at the Swanage URC since the induction of Simon. So, let’s put the record straight and say quite clearly that lots of things have happened…

Simon has kept us all so busy that finding time to keep the blog up to date has been difficult. Rather than try to bring you up to date in one go I think it best to talk of the future and try and fill in the past at a later date. (more…)

Simon comes to us from Littlehampton (from one seaside to another!) and brings his wife Jilly to share the sea views from the Swanage manse!

Photos from the induction weekend coming shortly!

HYPED

The collection taken at the Christingle Service on Christmas Eve, as well as the donations to the Christmas Card Tree, have been donated to the local charity, HYPED (Homeless Young People in East Dorset).

CHILDREN IN NEED

Olivia decided that she wanted to do her bit towards the BBC Children in Need Appeal. With the help of her parents and grandparents she manned the cake stall following our Service on Sunday 16th November. Olivia presented each customer with a Pudsey Bear sticker.

Over £76 was raised for this very worthwhile cause. Olivia will celebrate her fourth birthday just after Christmas.

CONGO APPEAL

A retiring collection following the service on Sunday 4th December raised £180. This has been sent to the Disasters Emergency Committee. We are grateful to our friends from the Methodist Church for their support, as this was our regular monthly joint service.

SUNDAY SERENADE

Around twice a year the musical talent of the Church gathers to entertain. A Sunday Serenade on 23rd November was one of these occasions. It was billed as ‘A Concert with something for everyone to enjoy – including afternoon tea’. It certainly fulfilled its promise.Sixty or so friends enjoyed a concert performed by musicians of all ages. Cantilena, a ladies singing group, started the afternoon by singing ‘The Heavenly Aeroplane’; ‘O Happy Day’ and ‘Steal Away’. Evie followed this with a flute solo, ‘Sea Shore’. The entertainment continued with poems, a piano solo by Ryan, and a second appearance of Evie, this time on violin. Cantilena closed the first half with a medley of songs, including Panis Angelicus.

A delicious traditional English tea was served during the interval. During the second half the entertainment continued with the URC Hand Bell Ringers, a reading of A A Milne’s, ‘King John’s Christmas’, a vocal solo from Ryan, and an oboe solo by Sarah who also trains the singing group. The afternoon drew to a close with a final trio of songs from Cantilena. All in all, it was a very entertaining afternoon which set the mood for Christmas. The afternoon raised funds for the new headquarters for the Girl Guides in Swanage.

SHOEBOXES

For a number of years Swanage URC has supported the appeal from Blythswood, in sending out Shoeboxes filled with presents and much needed everyday essentials to those in need - in Eastern Europe, India and the Philippines. This year 53 boxes were sent and were part of an amazing total of 127,000 sent this year from the UK.

Thank you – to everyone who helped in any way, to make our fourth Sankey Sing another success;  to Ray Stanyon, our Interim Moderator, for bringing his family over for a cream tea in the afternoon, and for doing such a good job in compereing our concert in the evening. (more…)

During the few days leading up to Easter the BBC Weather Forecasters were predicting high winds, snow and ice, and were regularly giving out weather warnings. So, it was with a mixture of hope and prayer, that on Saturday night the car was loaded with wood, fire-lighters, matches and several old newspapers.

A mobile phone with the alarm set to 4.30 a.m. was strategically placed on a wooden bedside table – surely this would be enough to ‘wake the dead’. And, of course, it did. (more…)

Ironically my first posting is also my Pastoral Letter for this month.

Please let us know what you think of our new site! (more…)

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