Alton Webteam: June 2016
I haven't yet got a total for this year's Home Collection Boxes but I would like to thank all my wonderful collectors who feed their boxes over the year. At the moment I've paid in about £700 so we'll probably be a bit down on previous years, although it's amazing how it still keeps coming along when so many of us use cards to pay for goods and don't get any change. If you haven't already got a collecting box — I've a number of spare ones! Jennie Marlow (85698)
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On Sunday 30th June the members of the Greater Alton Project came together at St. Lawrence Church to celebrate their outreach to the local community, especially the work of the Open the Book teams. The Greater Alton Project is a covenant between Alton Methodist Church and the churches of the Anglican Parish of the Resurrection. Members of the GAP churches work together in providing Open the Book...
On the Scottish HillsThe six young people in our Duke of Edinburgh Gold group travelled by train to Galloway in South-West Scotland in July for their assessed expedition. Their base for the week was a large, well-appointed holiday cottage near Castle Douglas, set in beautiful countryside. The weather during the two days of familiarisation was excellent, but it started to go downhill as the...
With the thermometer hovering at 31 degrees, it was fortunate that the route of the church evening stroll was through shady woodland!Fifteen people (and three dogs!) enjoyed a two-hour walk through the sun-dappled Ackender and Bushy Leaze woods, stopping to look at the historic Park Pale and the well in Beech, and appreciating the beauty of the beech woods. Finishing over the meadows, with a...
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