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Church of St. Mary the Virgin, Finedon.

Parish Magazine

July 2013 50p

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Finedon Parish Church: St Mary The Virgin

Vicar: The Revd Richard Coles, Parish Priest,

St Mary the Virgin Finedon, The Vicarage,

Church Hill, Finedon, Northants, NN9 5NR

01933 681 786, Mobile 07885 967 960

email: revdrichardcoles@yahoo.co.uk

Assistant Honorary Priest Fr Peter Baden,01832 733186

email: p.baden36@btinternet.com

Parish Clerk Mrs Gill Foster Tel: 680364 (To whom first

contact for Baptisms and weddings must be

made).

Churchwardens: Mrs Jane Read Tel: 680522

Mr Neil Forster Tel: 682177

PCC Secretary: Mrs Gill Foster Tel: 680364

Treasurer: Mr Andrew Weatherill Tel: 682212

Magazine Editor: Mrs Janet Millington, Tel: 681161.

E-mail: millingtonjanet@aol.com

(to whom all copy should addressed by

the 15th of the month prior to publication)

Director of Music Mr Jonathan Harris Tel: 01604 881182

Email: Hjonathan83@aol.com

Deputy Organists Mrs. Kathy Roberts

Mr Oliver Grigg

Choirmaster: Mr. Bryan Chapman Tel: 398818

Tower Captain Mr Bryan Chapman, Tel 398818

Web Site www.finedonphotographs.org.uk/

bellringers.html

Archivist Mr John Bailey Tel 680747

St Michael’s Mission Room: Mrs Helen Watts Tel: 01933 398073

Times Of Services: Sundays

8.00 am Holy Eucharist

9.30 am Parish Eucharist.

6.00 pm Evensong (1st Sunday of the

Month)

Visit us on the Web at www.stmarysfinedon.co.uk

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From the Vicarage July 2013. My life has been much improved by the discovery and deployment, in this latter half of my middle years, of a snooze after lunch. I don’t get one every day but on the days that I do I find I face the prospect of the evening’s engagements with renewed relish. The price you pay, apart from being thought idle, is the slightly drunk-at-lunch feeling it gives you all afternoon. But I earned my snooze today. I had a busy morning that concluded at the old folk’s home, singing old fashioned hymns as loudly as possible to an obbligato of high pitched squealing as hearing aids were turned up or sometimes down. We began with Morning Has Broken, which cannot have escaped the attention of anyone walking past at the time, and ended on What A Friend We Have In Jesus, and whenever we sing that I think of how much some of these old ladies and gentlemen have come to rely on that friendship because little else in life by the time you get to ninety is so durable.

After the singing, the weeping. I don’t know why, but once we’ve got through To Be A Pilgrim and Onward Christian Soldiers and spirits are raised and faculties awakened, tears follow. I sat and held the hand of a lady who wept and wept, saying nothing, but what needed to be said? Another told me of her father, a lay preacher in the nineteen thirties, who had implanted in her a faith so strong it survived being blown up in the Blitz. As she spoke of him, tears rolled down her face too. Another lady, 108 years old next week, recalled the First World War when there are fewer and fewer left to remember the Second.

I went back to the Vicarage, had lunch and forty winks, dozing more deeply than I thought I would so I slipped in and out of consciousness and mistook the amplified cry of the Rag and Bone man going by for the muezzin calling the faithful to prayer, a sound not heard in the streets of Finedon but one I grew to love when I was in Africa. I suppose that will be one of my stories when I am old (not long now).

Even in my fifties I am full of stories, my own and other people’s, and listening to the stories of the old especially fascinates me. I always urge the children at the Junior school to visit the residents opposite, and get them to tell their stories of childhood, after eighty years full of that sharp-edged high-contrast detail, of sweets and shoes and songs and smells. It’s the kind of detail that you find in Jesus’ parables and the stories of his healings, which we’re hearing in our readings form the Gospel of Luke at the moment. Funny that, how it’s not the big set pieces of our lives that lodge in our memories, but the minor details, the things to the side, which we recall without quite knowing why. It’s a good practice, I think - in life, in faith, in everything - to pay attention to the fine print rather than to the headlines. Yours in Christ, Fr Richard.

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Our Worship in July

Year C 7th - 6th Sunday after Trinity 1 Sam 66. 10 - Ps 30 Gal 6. 7 - 16 Luke 10. 1 - 11. 16 - 20. Hymns 362 Tell out, my soul, the greatness of the Lord! Kum ba ya 105 Beneath the cross of Jesus Anthem: Fairest Lord Jesus Over my head, I hear music in the air 490 Jesus shall reign where’er the sun Evensong 127 When I survey the wondrous cross Responses: Ferial Psalm 65 492 Jesus, where’er thy people meet Canticles: Brewer in D Anthem: Bourgeois O gladsome light, O grace 252 As water to the thirsty 14th - 7th Sunday after Trinity Amos 7. 7 - 11 Ps 82 Col 1. 1 -14 Luke 10. 25 - 37 Hymns 590 ‘ The Kingdom is upon you!’ 329 (Tune Adoro te devote) Thee we adore, O hidden Saviour, thee 572 Sometimes a light surprises Anthem: S.S.Wesley O Lord my God 563 Rejoice! The Lord is King

21st - 8th Sunday after Trinity Amos 8. 1 - 12 Ps 52 Col. 1. 15 - 28 Luke 10. 38 to end. Hymns 383 Be still, for the presence of the Lord 328 The Song of God proclaim 379 As pants the hart for cooling streams Anthem: Farrant Hide not thou thy face 628 Ye that know the Lord is gracious 28th - 9th Sunday after Trinity Hosea 1. 2 - 10 Ps 85 Col 2. 6 - 15 Luke 11. 1 - 13. Hymns 562 Put thou thy trust in God 393 Brother, sister, let me serve you 622 Will you come and follow me Anthem: Prayer is the soul’s sincere desire (561) 455 Guide me, O thou great Redeemer Organ Voluntaries following the 9.30am services

7th July – J. Clarke: Trumpet Voluntary

14th July – Max Reger: Chorale Prelude Ein’ feste burg ist unser Gott

21st July – Nicolas Le Bégue: A la venue de Noël

Organ Voluntaries following the 6.00pm evensong

7th July – Frescobaldi: Capriccio on the notes of the Cuckoo

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From the Registers

Baptisms

26th May Kyrie Grace Mitchell

Floodlight Sponsorship

26th May Janet Harris - to celebrate Malcolm's 60th birthday 2nd June Anne Reed - in memory of Alan Reed 9th June Pat Parker & Barbara Haseldine - in memory of their mum, Milli Woods (on what would have been her birthday). Madge Toop & Family - in memory of Ken Toop (on what would have been his 85th birthday). John & Elaine Turner :- in memory of Ruth Turner. 16th June Christine & Bryan Chapman - in memory of Ada Stacey (on what would have been her birthday) Christine & Bryan Chapman - in memory of Wilf Stacey (on what would have been his birthday) Isobel Swords & Family - in memory of Peter Swords Margaret Coombs & Family - in memory of Eric Coombs (on what would have been his birthday) 30th June Denis & Dorothy Howell - in memory of Florence Ruth Howell.

Organ Restoration

Update Our grant application to SITA Trust has been shortlisted for further consideration. The next stage will be a visit to the church by the Trustees and Grant Officer to view the organ and discuss the details of the project. This is likely to take place in mid-July, with a final decision by mid-August.

Quiz for the Organ Fund

Just a reminder to return your organ fund quiz sheets to Joanne Needle by 21st July 2013.

‘Christian Care for

Families’

The Mothers’ Union members cordially invite you to join them for a Strawberry Tea Party in the Mission Room at 2.30 pm on Tuesday 2nd July. Entertainment for the afternoon will be provided by ‘The Bells of Saint Mary’s’. This is our annual fund raising event for Mothers’ Union charities which are being called upon even more now, both at home and overseas. Tickets priced £3.00 are available from all MU members, so please come along and help us to care for those less fortunate than ourselves.

Mary Shipton

Evensong

Choral Evensong will be held in St Mary’s Church on Sunday 7th July at 6.00 pm.

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Crazy Hats In March it snowed In May it rained Waiting for a dry day Was becoming a pain But to-day hooray The sun did shine (well nearly) So off we set at at pretty good pace I said ‘Hang on’ this is not a race William almost broke into a trot Then had second thoughts ‘I’d better not’ Passers by began to smile But we didn’t care - just one more mile Thanks to all who sponsored us But I think next year we’ll hire a bus And if by chance we get snow and rain We’ll get a lift on the Wicksteed train Between us Delia, William and Janice We raised over £300 for Crazy Hats. Thanks again.

Waendel Walk

May I thank everybody who supported me with sponsorship for the Waendel Walk in May when I again walked 15km in memory of Peter and in aid of the Warwickshire and Northamptonshire Air Ambulance. I am still collecting the last of the promised donations as this magazine “goes to print” but I confirm that I shall be forwarding just over £550 to

the charity in the next couple of weeks. This latest figure takes the total raised for the air ambulance since Peter’s tragic accident to over £5,500. Once again thank you to everybody for your on-going support. It truly is much appreciated.

Carole Heywood.

The New Guide Law

‘I promise that I will do my best, to be true to myself and develop my beliefs, to serve the Queen and my community, to help other people and to keep the Guide Law’. What happened to God? The previous Promise said, “ …. to do my best to love my God”. In my day, “To do my duty to God”. God is at the whole heart of Guiding. Guiding is based on Christian values and whatever your religion they are good guidelines for life. Guiding has taught me many life skills, to respect God’s world and all the people, animals, plants etc that belong to it and set me many challenges. ‘Duty to God’, ‘…… to do my best to love my God’ is not fulfilled only by attending Church , it is by thanking him, it is listening to him and to which direction he is leading us and to which is the next challenge he is setting for us. Guiding probably has to modernize but to me it now appears to be more like a Girls youth club than what the Founder, Baden Powell, set it out to be.

Jane Read

Queens Guide

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Mayor of Thrapston.

It is my privilege to have been elected Chairman of Thrapston Town council and therefore from 28th of May I also became

Mayor of Thrapston for a year. It basically means I chair all the main meetings and attend most other meetings as a sort of coordinator between the various committees which exist. It also means I go to other Council's events as a representative of Thrapston. Of course I have a chain of office which is in the picture and those who attend these various functions are known as the chain gang as we move from church to church and civic event to civic event all wearing our chains. Lesley also has a small badge as my consort. It is really an Honour and an honorary position but I feel honoured to have been elected by my fellow councillors.

Peter Baden

Our congratulations to Fr Peter and we wish him and Lesley a very happy and enjoyable year in office.

Evita

Anyone between 9 years and 21 years of age interested in joining Centre Stage Amatuer Youth Group Production company for their

performance of EVITA by Tim Rice & Andrew Lloyd Webber at St Mary’s Church, should turn up on Wednesday 3rdJuly at 7.30pm at

Finedon Community Centre, Wellingborough Road, Finedon NN9 5LG. The Show date is 2nd – 5th October. Tel. 01604 246571

if more details required.

Finedon Community

Centre

Christmas Market & Craft Fair The Community Centre Christmas Market & Craft Fair will be held on Sunday 17th November between 11.00 am and 3.00 pm If you or a friend would like a stall (£10 each) at this event please contact Pam Wilton on 01933 398377. We are looking for a varied selection of stalls but no cards or jewellery please.

Church of St Mary the Virgin

Meat Bingo

on

Friday 12th July

at the

The Mission Room Well Street

at 7.30 pm

Admission Free Refreshments available

Raffle

Everyone Welcome

Transport is available. For details please telephone

Andrew Weatherill on 682212

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Townswomen’s Guild This month's meeting will be our Birthday Party meeting. We will be celebrating with a meal at Knuston Hall on Thursday July 4th.

Finedon Local History

Society The next meeting of the society will be on Monday 22nd July in the Mission Room, Well Street, Finedon at 7.30 pm. This month’s speaker is Dr Cathy Smith and the subject is ‘Lunacy in Northamptonshire. Admission is £2.50 for members and £3.50 for non-members, Light refreshments after the talk.

Finedon Local History

Society’s Exhibition Finedon Local History Society’s exhibition ‘Coronations’ is open at the Friends Meeting House, High Street, Finedon, on Saturdays and Sundays between 2.00 pm and 4.00 pm on both days. The exhibition extends from Queen Elizabeth II back to Queen Victoria.

Waterloo Drummers Please note that the starting date for new Waterloo Drummers group will now be on Thursday 3rd of October between 6.00 pm - 8.00 pm. and not Thursday 19th September as previously reported.

Church Monthly Draw

Total receipts of £282.00 are divided equally between the winners and the church funds. Winning numbers for the June monthly draw are: 1st prize 174 £70.50 2nd prize 8 £42.30 3rd prize 115 £28.20

If you would like to join the monthly draw (£1.00 per share per month) which takes place in the church on the first Sunday of the month, please contact Kathy Hobbs on 01933 398794.

F.C.S.S.E.S in association

with Pinot Noir Productions

ForeBalls! is a comedy set on the

greens and fairways of a country golf club.

Why not come along to the

Star Hall, Laws Lane from

11th to 13th July

for an evening of fun and laughter?

Tickets are only £5 and will be available at the door

from 7.00 pm with curtain up at 7.45 pm.

All profits will go towards the upkeep of the Star Hall

For further information ring the 19th Hole hotline 0780 061 5404

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Who was St. Swithin?

St. Swithin (or more properly, Swithun) was a Saxon Bishop of Winchester. He was born in the kingdom of Wessex and educated in its capital, Winchester. He was famous for charitable gifts and building churches.

Why do people watch the weather on St. Swithin's day?

A legend says that as the Bishop lay on his deathbed, he asked to be buried out of doors, where he would be trodden on and rained on. For nine years, his wishes were followed, but then, the monks of Winchester attempted to remove his remains to a splendid shrine inside the cathedral on 15 July 971. According to legend there was a heavy rain storm either during the ceremony or on its anniversary. This led to the old wives' tale (folklore) that if it rains on St Swithin's Day (July 15th), it will rain for the next 40 days in succession, and a fine 15th July will be followed by 40 days of fine weather. However, according to the Met Office, this old wives' tale is nothing other than a myth. It has been put to the test on 55 occasions, when it has been wet on St Swithin's Day and 40 days of rain did not follow. The emblems of St. Swithin refer to the legend of the forty days' rain (raindrops) and the apples from the trees he planted. There is an old saying when it rains on St. Swithin's Day, it is the Saint christening the apples. Apple growers ask St. Swithin for his blessing each year because they believe:

Rain on St. Swithin's day 'blesses and christens the apples'. No apple should picked or eaten before July 15th. Apples still growing at St Swithin's day will ripen fully.

The Friends of St Mary’s

Church Burton Latimer

Present

An Open Air Theatre Perfor-

mance

BURTON LATIMER HALL

NN15 5L[W

SATURDAY 27TH

JULY

6.30pm

Tickets 01536 725096 illyr-

ia.uk.com

Adult £13 Child £6 Family

£32 (2A+2C)

Gates open 5pm

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In My Day

The ramblings of Hubert James In my day it was about this time of year that Finedon became gripped with a craze for crazy golf. For the life of me, I cannot remember how it started. None of us were ever exposed to golf as a sport. Schools didn’t

encourage it and the cost of playing the proper version was well beyond our pockets. I can only think that this was a time when Finedon Folk discovered the seaside. It was a real trek to get there but once you made it to the coast what wonders awaited. Yes, sea and sand, that was to be expected but then there was donkey rides, and those brightly lit arcades where you could spend hours watching pennies drop off a shelf or flick a handle and follow a ball bearing spinning wildly around a circular maze. And there was always a crazy golf course. The thing about crazy golf was, that the whole family could play together and there was a good chance that the five year old could sink a putt quicker than the thirty-five year old. It’s not important how it happened but the craze arrived. It was prompted by Derek Barnum, an entrepreneur who lived up Sibley Road. He got permission to use that

fallow meadow next to the cricket club, to build a golf course. It was the real thing with all the obstacles you’d expect, like the windmill and a peculiar elephant where you had to hit the ball up his trunk. I won’t go into where the ball reappeared but get it right and it went straight from one hole to another. Being next to the cricket pitch, the course had an added hazard, come Sunday afternoon. You could be lining up a putt when suddenly you’d hear that frightening whistle as a cricket ball brushed passed your ear. Course, as with all crazes it didn’t last and come the second summer Derek tried to rekindle interest with a grand open day. The main feature of the day was an air balloon rally. He managed to get half a dozen balloons to take off from the cricket field. Glorious sight and all the kids set off helium filled balloons with their names and addresses to see how far they’d go. (A week later we found out that one had got all the way to Thrapston!). It was a lovely event and he rounded it off with a golf tournament. And it sort of worked for that summer. We all carried on playing but then moved on to the hoola hoops and then skateboards…….. Mind you that open day did hold one special memory. In late afternoon an old Zeppelin landed and none other than Robert Plant the famous Wolves support jumped out and asked for directions. He wanted to get to Paignton on the south coast. I told him, “Robert, it’s a fairway to Devon”. I think he used the line in one of his songs.

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Rt Revd Donald Allister, Bishop

of Peterborough, writes

Supporting overseas mission

It used to be standard practice for

parishes to support Christian

missionary work overseas. This might

have involved a link with one of the

mission agencies such as the Church

Mission Society or the United Society

for the Propagation of the Gospel (now

known as US), with regular news, an

occasional visiting preacher, mentions

in the weekly intercessions, and an

annual donation.

It might have been a personal link with

one of more mission workers, with

regular letters and photos, gifts and

occasional visits. At the same time

most dioceses had a small team

encouraging and supporting these

parish links. One of the signs of a

healthy church was that it maintained a

link with the overseas church and

overseas mission.

I suspect that the growth of diocesan

links, such as ours with Bungoma and

Seoul, is one reason why many

parishes no longer have active links

with mission agencies or individual

missionaries. I am not against diocesan

links; I’m very much in favour, and

enjoy hearing how our parishes get

involved with parishes or projects in our

link dioceses. But I am saddened at the

loss of so many other links, and at the

fact that the mission agencies find it

increasingly hard to raise support from

local churches.

I am conscious of people in the diocese

who have worked overseas for different

mission agencies. I know of such

connections with Crosslinks, Missionary

Aviation Fellowship, and Africa

Evangelical Fellowship, as well as CMS

and US, and of people who have

worked in Kenya, Nepal, Sudan,

Tanzania, and Zimbabwe. There must

be others I don’t know about, and some

I have forgotten. These connections are

part of our story as a diocese, and we

are the poorer if we lose them.

We don’t currently have an overseas

mission group, or any other structure to

help us hear and tell the stories, or

encourage such work in the future. I’m

not forgetting or minimising the good

work of the Bungoma and Seoul link

committees for which I am grateful, but

simply hoping that we don’t lose an

interest in overseas mission more

generally.

More positively, I am hoping that we

can rekindle a passion for overseas

mission, which I am still convinced is

one of the signs of a healthy church.

I welcome feedback on this!

Best wishes

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Around the diocese

St Leonard’s bounces back after

double lead theft

St

Leonard's Church at Loddington, near

Kettering, has just celebrated the

restoration of its roof following two lead

thefts, with a special service of

thanksgiving. It was the first time in 18

months that the congregation was able

to worship without the risk of water

dripping into buckets placed around the

church under damaged parts of the

roof.

The lead was stolen from the church

roof in September 2011 and then again

in September 2012. The total cost of

the repairs, which replaced the lead

with terne-coated steel, was £35,000.

Less than a third of this sum was

covered by the insurance claim, and all

the remaining funds were raised from

donations and the efforts of the local

community. The VAT will be refunded

now that the project is complete and a

short term interest free loan from the

diocese helped with cash flow as the

project progressed.

“The restoration has gone very well in

spite of having to deal with various

hidden problems including infestation

with death watch beetle!” said

Churchwarden Andrew Stephen. “We

are very grateful to all those who

helped and supported our church

during a very difficult time and also to

all those members, villagers and friends

of St Leonard’s who contributed to a

massive clean up after the work was

completed.”

Priest in Charge, John Westwood

added: “It has been a great team effort,

showing the place that St Leonard’s

has at the heart of the village. Now we

can move forward with our Growth

Action Plan!”

Church helps provide superfast

broadband The first homes in the Tove Valley in rural

Northamptonshire were connected to

superfast broadband in May, thanks to

the church and the community working

together.

The broadband service, which offers

speeds of up to 24Mbps, has been set up

by a dedicated team of local volunteers

who realised that it could be years before

any commercial provider would do this

work. It uses a fibre-optic feed into St

Loys CEVA Primary School at Lois

Weedon, which is then transmitted via Wi-

Fi. The transmitter fitted to Wappenham

church tower (left) is central to the

scheme.

“We are delighted that the church has

been so accommodating,” said Richard

Tomalin, a Director of the not-for-profit

Tove Valley

Broadband (and

Churchwarden at

Abthorpe). “We had

nothing but positive

responses locally

and from the

diocese.” www.tovevally.net

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Around the diocese

God at work on the Roof of the

World

Since her retirement as Diocesan Adult

Education and Lay Training Officer in

2000, Sheila Addison has been

involved with others in supporting the

fast growing Emmanuel Church in

Nepal. Here she explains more.

I met Gopal Regmi in 1990 when I was in

Kathmandu doing an inspection of what

was then the British School. Pastor Gopal

had returned from India in 1987 where

he had been for three years, studying at

Poona for a degree in theology. He and

his wife, Meera, with two friends spent

much time in prayer to discern what God

was calling them to do next.

They began to invite neighbours to their

home and to share with them the Good

News of Jesus. It soon became necessary

for them to rent a larger room as more

and more people wanted to know what

message Gopal and his friends had for

them. Three years later, there were

around 150 members of the Emmanuel

Church that had grown from those

beginnings.

Gopal took me on a number of pastoral

visits at the weekends. I resolved to pray

for the Emmanuel Church but thought it

unlikely that I would ever be in Nepal

again. How-ever the Governors of the

school invited me to carry out

assessments and provide in-service

training for the teachers in 1992, 1994,

1996 and in 1998. Over this time I was

becoming increasingly involved with the

fast growing Emmanuel Church.

In 1998 God spoke to me very clearly as I

was reading Isaiah 58: 9-14. I understood

that God had specific work for me to do

with him alongside Pastor Gopal and the

team. For the past fifteen years many

generous people have joined me in

supporting this Church that has grown

from those four people meeting for prayer

in 1987 to a membership of around 9000

believers today.

The Emmanuel 2000 Project is currently

able to send around £3500 a month to

support 80 orphaned children, 10

destitute elderly widows, a school of 50

children (above), several vulnerable

families and specific projects such as

wells for rural communities, goats for

families, motor bikes for pastors, skills

training for young people.

We do not ask for funds. My role is to tell

the story of God’s work on the Roof of the

World and he does the asking. If any

group or Church would like me to visit to

tell this story more fully I can be

contacted on 01933 224081 or at

Sheilaadd@aol.com

The Children’s Home, Worship Centre,

Bible College and School for Disadvantaged

children provided by Emmanuel 2000.

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Not too early think about

Christmas!

It may seem crazy to start thinking about

Christmas so early, but not so according

to Miles Baker, Diocesan Mission

Enabler. He is encouraging teams from

churches to sign up to a two hour

conference, hosted by Bishop John on

21st September, called Making the most

of Christmas.

The idea of the conference is to help

churches develop their Christmas

programme to maximise church growth.

There will be short workshops on themes

such as “Invitation and welcome”,

“Building a Christmas team” and

“Working with schools at Christmas.” There will also be stalls sharing ideas for running a Shoebox appeal, an Advent quiet day, a community crib service, a beer and carols event, etc. The conference is at All Saints School, Northampton, from 10am to 12 noon. Admission is free although registration is essential. See: www.peterborough-diocese.org.uk/christmas

July events

Tuesdays in July, Lunchtime Recitals 1.45pm at St John’s, Cathedral Square, Peterborough. stjohnscic.wordpress.com

Thursdays 4, 11, 18 & Fri 26, Britten Festival, 1.10pm at All Saints, N’hpton.

Sat 6, Christian Aid garage sale, Irthlingborough. 10am. 01933 650459.

Sat 6, Newton Bromswold Village Fete, 2.30pm. Rushden Mission Band, children’s fancy dress, family dog show.

Sat 6, P’borough Pilgrims to Santiago meeting, 12 noon St Mary's, N’hampton NN4 8EZ. Bookings 01604 761104.

Sat 6 & Sun 7, TS Eliot Festival at Little Gidding PE28 5RJ. 01832 275343.

Sat 6, Lincoln Noel Trio. 6pm picnic, 7.30pm concert, St Mary’s, Gt Brington. £10 advance tickets only 01604 770680.

Suns 7, 14, 21 28 Cream Teas at Kislingbury, 3pm at St Luke’s, NN7 4AD.

Sun 7, The Pat Monahan Show. Irish Iranian stand up. 2pm & 7.30pm at Kettering Arts Centre at St Andrew's, NN16 8RG. 01536 513858 (Mon-Thurs).

Sun 7, Peterborough Opera at All Saints, Easton-on-the-Hill, PE9 3NZ. 4pm. Tickets £10. Tel: 01832 272738.

Fri 12, Jazz & Quiz Night with Lincoln Noel Jazz Trio, 7.30pm at Vicarage Farm Community Centre, Well’boro. For Gleneagles Church. £7.50. 0845 094 0312.

Fri 12 - Sat 13, St Kyneburgha Festival Weekend, Castor. www.castorfestival.co.uk

Sat 13, Strawberry Teas at Hartwell. 2.30-5pm, St John the Baptist NN7 2HW.

Sat 13, Divers Voyces. Music from the 17th Century. 7.30pm at Thorney Abbey PE6 0QD. Tickets £7 on door.

Sat 20, Wilby Summer Event. 2pm at Wilby Church NN8 2UG. Teas, music, stalls, teddy parachuting from tower.

Sat 27, Collegium Regale. Scholars from King’s College, Cambridge. 6pm reception for 7pm. £15. 01295 660886. St Leonard’s, Aston le Walls NN11 6UF.

Sun 28, Special Choral Evensong. United voices of Towcester, Greens Norton and West Bucks Benefice. 6pm at St Lawrence’s, Towcester NN12 6YY.

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Available for hire weekdays and Saturdays. Suitable for most social functions, charitable events, children's parties (no late

discos)

All enquiries and information

Mrs Helen Watts Tel: 01933 398073

(Between 6 pm & 8 pm or by letter to 46 Well Street, Finedon)

St Michael’s Mission Room, Well Street, Finedon

July

2nd 10am Coffee morning, Football Club 2.30 pm MU Strawberry Tea Party, Mission Room

6th St Mary’s Church Wine Walkabout

7th 6pm Evensong, St Mary’s Church

9th 9.45 am Coffee morning, Bowls Club

12th 7.30 St Mary’s Meat Bingo, Mission Room

11th/ 13th

7.45 FCSSES ForeBalls, Star Hall

16th 10am Coffee morning, football club

22nd 7.30 History Society Mission Room, Lunacy in Northamptonshire Dr Cathy Smith

23rd 9.45am Coffee Morning, Bowls club

30th 10am Coffee morning, Football club

August

6th 9.45 Coffee morning, Bowls club

13th 10am Coffee morning, coffee morning

19th 7.30 History Society, Mission Room, Wonder-ful Wellingborough Women’ Jon-Paul Carr

20th 9.45 am Coffee morning, Bowls club

27th 10am coffee morning, Football club

September

13th-15th

St Mary’s Church Flower Festival

15th FIWC Harvest Festival

16th 7 pm FIWC Harvest Sale

23rd 7.30 History Society Mission Room, 303rd Bomb Group, Molesworth 1942-45. Robin Beeby

October

2nd/ 5th

Evita, by Centre Stage amateur youth group, St Mary’s Church, Finedon

3rd 6-8pm Waterloo Drummers, Community Centre

19th 9-12 FIWC Table Top Sale

28th 7.30 History Society Mission Room, Finedon Parish Records & Church Archives - John Bailey

November

17th 11-3pm Christmas Market & Craft Fail, Community centre

December

6th St Mary’s Church Wassail Evening

7th 11-2pm FIWC Christmas Bazaar

Town Diary