Can you help? Do you have a few spare hours in the week or the month? Then please read on.
Our ancient and beautiful church has an important place in the life of the village.
Maybe you enjoy a walk that takes you through the church grounds seeing the snowdrops,
beautiful trees including the copper beech, spotting the squirrels or hearing the
woodpecker.
Maybe it’s visiting the church for some solitude or quiet prayer.
Enjoying one of the church services.
Or maybe it’s the amazing heritage and history of the
building.
Or even just the reassurance that it gives.
There is no doubt that this church is valued by many villagers.
This is our problem: the team ‘looking after’ the church is small in number, aging and needs help.
And it does need a lot of ‘looking after’.
From cleaning, gardening, odd jobs to fund raising for repairs.
We would be so very grateful if you could help in one of the many ways.
And you do not need to be a church attendee, just someone who is interested and wants to help this church building and its grounds survive for future generations to enjoy.
This is where we need help:
Cleaning – could you give a couple of hours every 3 weeks or so to help us clean the
church?
Church yard maintenance – We try to meet monthly on a Saturday morning for 2 hours to look after the churchyard.
Odd jobs that need doing from time to time.
Fund raising – The happy band of people that make up the Friends of St Peter’s has been
raising money for the church building since 1995. But now we really need folk with
energy and enthusiasm to help raise the funds to keep this grade 1 listed heritage
building from crumbling.
Money is always needed. If it’s not the roof, it’s the stonework
or the plaster work or the bees or death watch beetle, or mildew or …
There are always things that need doing in and outside this building which we all care
about.
If you are interested in finding out more, please do contact me
shirley.garlick19@btinterent.com or phone 07925170803.
Thornton 