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Gourmet Soup Kitchen Ceceases To Run - posted 08 May 2017
We have been advised that the Gourmet Soup Kitchen has ceased providing soup every month.
The Gourmet Soup Kitchen Continues Its Success - posted 02 July 2015
Weston Chapel Gourmet Soup Kitchen is held the lst Tuesday of every month, next one July 7th - comes highly recommended, places are limited for further details or to book your place contact Rosemary Gulliver 01295 760720. For general enquires about activites at Weston Chapel contact Rosemary or Val (01295 711321)
"Gourmet Soup Kitchen" On First Tuesday Of Each Month - posted 16 February 2014
"Gourmet Soup Kitchen" is held on the first Tuesday of each month at Weston, 4th March, and 1st April, at 12.30pm. Two different types of soup are served, followed by dessert, chocolates and coffee/tea all for a modest cost of £5.
It has been good to see a contingent from Helmdon in recent months; a warm welcome awaits anyone else who would like to come. To reserve a place please contact Irene 768104) or Rosemary (760720).
Tiny Tots Are Opening Over The Summer Holiday - posted 26 July 2013
...... and welcome all little ones from 10am to 12 noon on Wednesday mornings.
News From The Baptist Fellowship - posted 07 April 2013
Tiny Tots continues to meet each Wednesday at Weston Chapel during term time, from 10am - 12 noon. We offer a range of craft activities for the older pre-school child and plenty of toys to play with. Our sessions include refreshments, singing and story time. We are a warm and friendly group and love to meet new people.
Weston Chapel continues to host the community activities it always has done, WEA, Wine Club, Art Club, Carers Lunch (3rd Thursday of each month), Tiny Tots and recently the premises were used for a Coffee Morning for the Stroke Association.
The premises are also available, on request, for birthday and other celebrations.
Our Gourmet Soup Kitchen held the first Tuesday of each month is very popular. The next one is May 7th when the menu consists of two types of soup, a pudding, coffee/tea and a chocolate to finish up with. After lunch for those who wish to stay, we have Tuesday Reflections led by Rev. Paul Knight, an opportunity to hear more about one of the many bible characters and sing some favourite hymns. If you wish to come along to one of these please let Rosemary know.
Services are held each Sunday at 10.30am. Any further information please contact Rosemary Gulliver e-mail
or Irene Inness e-mail
Women's World Day Of Prayer - posted 10 February 2013
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Business As Usual At The Baptist Fellowship - posted 16 November 2012
Phil Drage leaves Tove Valley Baptist Fellowship (Weston) for pastures new in early December, taking up a new pastorate at Earl Shilton Baptist Church, Leicestershire.
Weston Community Project is still doing what it has always done Iit is still the community arm of the Baptist Church and is available for you in the villages around to us. Yes, changes have been made to its constitution, but it's still very much business as usual.
Services take place each Sunday at 10.30am. Weekly activities include Art Club, 7pm on Tuesday, Tiny Tots 10am on Wednesday. WEA lectures and Wine Club are still well attended.
In November we are launching The Weston "Soup Kitchen" - think Covent Garden not Heinz. The lunch consists of two different kinds of soup, a dessert and coffee at a cost of £5. The next date is December 4th and if you would like to come and join us please let us know by the Thursday of the week before - in this case 29th November.
Regarding Helmdon Chapel we are sorry that we don't have any definite news to share regarding the derelict chapel building. Plans to sell the site are proceeding but moving at an incredibly slow pace.
If you want to know more about Weston Community Project, please contact Rosemary on 760720 rosemarygulliver@tiscali.co.uk or Irene Inness 768014 irene@Inness.fsnet.co.uk or visit our website www.tvbf.co.uk.
Baptist Chapel Site Planning Permission Granted - posted 22 August 2011
Permission having been given for the clearance of the site and the construction of two "starter homes", the site is currently being offered for sale by Lords of Towcester.
Up-date On The Old Baptist Chapel And Schoolroom - posted 1 March 2011
An architect has been commissioned to draw up detailed plans to develop the site, as required by the the planning authorities. We wait to hear whether this is any more successful than all the others.
Glyn Jones
What Is Happening About Helmdon Chapel? - posted 13 February 2009
... you may be asking. Not much, I am sorry to say. We all regret it is such an eyesore but let me explain why I think there will be no action in the foreseeable future.
In recent years three planning applications were made to redevelop the site with affordable housing; each was refused, with completely different reasons being given each time. After the third application we were told that any further application would have to be as a full planning proposal. It was clear from what we and our professional architect observed when a group of us attended the last application that it would be difficult for us to satisfy that Planning Committee - a new reason for refusal might be produced. Since each outline application costs money to prepare and submit, and a full planning application would cost much more, we hesitated before making a further application and last year we recognised that in the deteriorating conditions of the housing market we now had little hope of realising what we believed to be the value of the site. As a registered charity we are required to do our best to secure the value of our property, which we cannot do in the current depression/recession (dare one use the D-word?).
With hindsight, it is unfortunate, both from the point of view of most villagers and of the church as owner of the derelict chapel and site, that objections against the earlier development proposals prevented the timely development of the site that was intended. I think that there will now be a pause until favourable conditions for development return and we are more confident that another planning application will have a reasonable chance of success. Of course, those who are responsible for the chapel may not have this view -- this is my personal opinion, being someone without authority -- but I feel sure that I express the general feeling of the folk who remember the good times past at Helmdon chapel when I say that we regret we have not been permitted to arrive at a neat ending for it.
Glyn Jones
glyngilljones@aol.com
The Community Project at Weston continues to expand its Activities - posted 5th February 2009
The Comunity Project continues to expand its activities. Everything it does is open to people from Helmdon and all the surrounding villages. In addition to the Coffee Stop, Lunch Club, Hobby Club, Tiny Tots, WEA, Art Club and Wine Club there are the recently started lunch for Alzheimers' sufferers and carers and help for those experiencing depression, plus the following new activities: Keep Fit Classes On Mondays at 1.30 pm there are 'Keep Fit' Classes at the Weston Community Project. They last for one hour and guarantee to find again the muscles you thought you had lost! For more information contact Audrey Keeves on 01295 760334 or a.keeves@btinternet.com
Walk your way to Health. If you know that a little gentle exercise is good for the health but are not a serious ramblers you will be interested in the weekly Leisure Walks. These take place each Tuesday morning, going at a gentle pace and starting at 9.30 from the old chapel, whatever the weather. Each lasts for an hour to an hour and quarter. There is no charge. Hot drinks and cakes are available afterwards in the rooms of the Community. For more details call Mike Crozier, the walk leader, on 07866-823273. Computer courses Practical instruction in computing continues to be available from time to time at the Community Project. The classes are small (up to 4 trainees) and 'hands-on'. The two courses currently on offer are Computing for Beginners (for those with no experience) and Basic Computing (for those who want to know some useful 'tricks of the trade'). If you may be interested in one of these inexpensive courses or wish to discuss your needs, contact Glyn Jones on 01327 261265 or glyngilljones@aol.com if you are already on the internet.
Interested in Art? Do the names Henry Moore, Eric Gill, John Piper, Dora Carrington, Clare Leighton, Stanley Spencer, Paul and John Nash mean anything to you? 'Some Artists of Southern England' is the title of Bill Prestcott's WEA Course that will run at the Project for six weeks from April 22nd onwards and they are the painters, sculptors and engravers from the first half of last Century whose work will be featured. Wednesday afternoons 2-4pm £33 for the entire course (coffee or tea included, of course). For more information contact Glyn Jones on 01327 261265 or glyngilljones@aol.com Visit the WCP website at www.westoncp.org.uk !
Local Baptists celebrate the first year of the Weston Community Project - 30th August 2007
The Weston Community Project has competed its first year of operation in the newly refurbished premises at the old chapel at Weston. In that time it has initiated regular meetings of: a lunch club, a hobby gather, a daytime WEA branch, an art club and a wine club. It has also become the home for the established 'Mums and Tots', and a temporary location for the ceramic Art Group. In addition to the Parish Council and the local drama group practising there, the Community Project has been used for a variety of private activities ranging from an evening of choral and orchestral works to a showing of Al Gore's film 'An Inconvenient Truth', and for parties of all kinds.
The grade II listed building was reopened almost one year ago by Sir John Greenaway, a Deputy Lord Lieutenant of the county, in the presence of a multitude of civic dignitaries. At that time many must have wondered whether a community centre at Weston could ever succeed. The progress made in such a short time has astonished everyone, not least those who took the risk and invested in it (including the church and the NCC). Of course, the Baptists still use the building for services on Sundays and alternate Tuesdays, and for prayer on Sundays and Mondays -- its Cells continue to meet in private houses in Helmdon and Moreton Pinkney. And like the Community Project the church is also growing.
The Community Project is an independent charity. It will hold its first General Meeting on the afternoon of Thursday 27 September, 2007, when its progress will be reported. This is open to anyone who wishes to attend. But I imagine that most people will be content to visit the Community Project's website which gives information about its activities; you may visit it on www.westoncp.org.uk
Glyn Gill Jones
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