2016-08

August/September 2016 

WOODSEATS • SHEFFIELD

WELCOME to Impact - the magazine of St Chad’s Church, 

Woodseats. Impact is published every two months and distributed 

to over 5,000 homes in S8. 

St Chad’s Church is committed to serving you - the people of 

Woodseats, Beauchief and Chancet Wood. To find out more about 

St Chad’s, visit our website at www.stchads.org or call the church 

office on 0114 274 5086. 

Here’s where to find us: 

Abbey Lane 

Linden Avenue 

Church 

House 

St Chad's 

Church & 

Church 

Office 

Camping Lane 

Chesterfield Road 

Abbey Lane 

School 

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Regular readers of Impact will have picked 

up a while ago that gardening isn’t really 

my thing. Outside of the house we tend 

to let nature run wild and inside the house 

we kill almost every plant we own (the 

one exception being my son’s cactus which is 

surviving quite happily). 

That isn’t to say that I don’t enjoy gardens – 

particularly other people’s – and it’s even possible 

that given the time I might be able to do a little 

pottering about myself. Our favourite gardens 

that we visit are those in Chatsworth, and not 

just the magnifi cent grounds with the rocks, the 

water features and the sculptures. The kitchen garden with its multitude 

of different herbs giving off wonderful scents of rosemary, mint, sage etc. 

are also a great favourite. 

The garden that I know best is the one that I grew up playing in, in my 

parents house on the outskirts of London. My parents bought a house 

that was a wreck with a garden that displayed nature at its worst. The 

bottom of the garden was a permanent marsh with water that regularly 

fl ooded the concrete bomb shelter that was an unwanted feature of the 

landscape. Neither the house nor the garden had been tended for a long 

time and my father, displaying talents that I sadly never inherited, set 

about improving both. 

Over the course of some 25 years the bomb shelter was demolished to 

make a patio, the marsh was drained and turned into a vegetable patch, 

paths were put in, dead trees cut down, fl owers planted and the lawn 

relaid. Neither house nor garden now display any sign of their previous 

neglect. 

The love that many of us have for gardens comes, I think, out of the 

knowledge that beauty comes at a cost. The pleasing lines and colours 

that make up a good garden are certainly not “natural”; they are the 

product of human imagination and initiative working with the raw power 

and spontaneity of nature. Too much order and the landscape feels 

artifi cial, too much spontaneity and it is simply fi lled with weeds. 

If we do feel closer to God in a garden, as Dorothy Gurney’s poem 

says, then I wonder if it is because in our own lives we recognise a 

certain interplay of creative order and chaotic spontaneity. 

I know that if I lived entirely according to my own selfi sh 

desires I would be weed-ridden and unpleasant. I need 

God to fashion me and be the gardener to my soul 

bringing out the best of me and rooting out the worst. 

And like all gardens, if I neglect my spiritual life for too 

long, the weeds soon come back with a vengeance. 

If we’re feeling messy and weedy then perhaps we 

need to look to the Good Gardener to prune, weed and 

nurture us? 

Rev Toby Hole, Vicar, 

St Chad’s Church, Woodseats 

Closer to God in a Garden? 


Church Offi ce: 9 Linden Avenue, Sheffi eld S8 0GA 


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A little boy was sitting 

in his garden with his 

mum when a lorry went 

by loaded up with rolls of 

turf. 

“I’m going to do that 

when I’ve got a garden,” 

he told his mum. 

“What’s that dear?” she 

asked. 

“Send my lawn away to 

be cut!” he replied. 

A man walked into 

a fi sh and chip shop 

with a salmon under 

his arm. 

He asked “Do you 

sell fi sh cakes here?” 

“No,” was the reply. 

“That’s a shame, it’s 

his birthday!” 

Why do potatoes 

make good 

detectives? 

Because they keep 

their eyes peeled! 

What did the traffic 

light say to the 

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“Don’t look, I’m 

changing!” 

“We were told you only accepted 

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Why did Cinderella 

get dropped from 

the football team? 

She ran 

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from 

the 

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What 

happened 

to the 

plant in 

the maths 

lesson? 

It grew 

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roots! 

What’s brown 

and runs round 

the garden 

A fence! 

Why did the 

tomato go out 

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Because he 

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What’s On 

If you have an event you would like 

to see included in our What’s On 

section, email impact@stchads.org 

Health Walks 

•Mondays - 10am: Graves Park. 

Meet outside the Rose Garden 

Cafe; 

•Tuesdays - 10.30am: Ecclesall 

Woods. Meet at the Visitors 

Centre at Abbeydale Industrial 

Hamlet; 

•Thursdays - 10.30am: 

Lowedges. Meet at the Gresley 

Road Meeting Rooms, Gresley 

Road, Lowedges; 

•Thursdays - 10.30am: Ecclesall 

Woods. Meet at the JG Graves 

Discovery Centre off Abbey Lane. 

) Call 0114 203 9337 for details 

regarding any of the walks. 

August 2 

Dens and Fires Wild Play 

Woodland Discovery Centre, 

Ecclesall Woods 

10am-12pm or 1.30-3.30pm 

Children’s session with the Wildlife 

Trusts. Price £5 per person. 

Booking is essential on 0114 263 

4335. 

August 3, 10, 17, 24 and 31 

Make your Own Wednesdays 

Abbeydale Industrial Hamlet 

10am - 12.30pm 

Fun family craft activities. 

Normal Hamlet admission 

applies with a small fee charged 

for crafts. 

August 9 

Butterflies & Bees Wild Play 



10am-12pm or 1.30-3.30pm 



Booking essential on 0114 2634335. 

August 14, 28 and 29 

Abbeydale Miniature Railway 

Abbeydale Road South 

1-5pm 

The regular open days at 

Abbeydale Miniature Railway. 

August 16 

Natural Art Wild Play 



10am-12pm or 1.30-3.30pm 



Booking essential on 0114 2634335. 

August 19 

An Elizabethan Wardrobe 

Revealed 

Greenhill Library 

7pm 

A talk, demonstration and display 

by Maureen Taylor. Learn about 

men’s and children’s fashions, 

social habits, hats, and more. 

Tickets are £5 and will be 

available from the library. 

Anderson Tree Services 

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Send details of your event to impact@stchads.org or write to: Impact, 

St Chad‟s Church Offices, 15 Camping Lane, Sheffield S8 0GB. 

Lowedges. Meet at the Community 

Wing, Lowedges Junior School. 

Call 0114 203 9337. 

February 12 

Free Environmental Activities 

Millhouses Park 

National August Council 20 for Divorced, September 11 and 25 

1.30-3.30pm 

Single The Great and Widowed Greenhill Bake Off Abbeydale Miniature Railway 

Nature quiz trail, stream dipping 

Tuesdays Greenhill 8-11pm Library 

Abbeydale Road South 

Norton 2pm 

and 

Country Club 

1-5pm 

bug hunting activities for 8 - 13 

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year The regular olds. open days at 

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January 30 - February 5 

at a tea party and get a signed 10.30am-12.30pm 

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Leisure Centre 

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August 23 

February iconic of all 20 animals — the Giant 

February Stick Man 5 

Why Panda. Not Advance Try A Bike booking strongly 

Book Woodland Sale Discovery Centre, Greenhil 

recommended. 

Park 

36 Ecclesall Crawshaw Woods Grove, Beauchief 

10am-2pm 

10am-12pm or 1.30-3.30pm September 18 

Rediscover your cycling skills in 

Good Children’s quality session second-hand with the books Wildlife Nether Edge Farmers Market 

Greenhill Park. The rangers will 

for Trusts. sale in Price aid of £5 the per Alzheimer‟s person. Nether Edge 

provide a bike, helmet and 

Society. Booking Donations is essential of on paperback 0114 263 12-4pm 

instruction. Meet at the Bowls 

novels 4335. or biographies in good Stalls and entertainment in the 

Pavilion, Greenhill Park. 

condition are welcome (but not streets around the old Nether Edge 

Booking is essential. 

larger September books due 11 to space 

Market Place. 

Call 0114 283 9195. 

limitations). Farmer’s Market 

Greenhill Library 

10am-4pm 

February 5 

Food and crafts from local 

Free Environmental Activities 

producers at Greenhill Library’s 

Millhouses 

third Farmers 

Park 

and Artisan Craft 

Beauchief Abbey Abbey holds holds a variety a 

10.30am-12.30pm 

Market. 

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Capability Brown 

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gardener 

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‘Capability’ 

Brown transformed the 

gardens at Chatsworth in 

1760 designed out of what 

was then working farmland 

– a challenge for the great 

designer who often talked of 

a garden’s ‘capabilities’ which 

earned him his well-known 

nickname. 

Born in 1716, he is 

thought to have fi rst visited 

Chatsworth in 1758. 

This year the Capability 

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the 300th birthday of the 

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In June 2014 the St Chad’s 

Reshaping the Church project 

was launched. You may 

remember reading something 

about it at the time in Impact. 

At the time of the launch we 

set ourselves the task of raising 

£300,000 from the congregation, 

from the sale of property and from 

grants. Rather predictably, the 

costs escalated quite considerably 

and we have ended up raising 

the remarkable sum of £430,000 

which covers all the predicted costs 

with the exception of VAT (most of 

which we can reclaim under the 

listed places of worship scheme). 

We also now have all the 

permissions in place from Sheffi eld 

Council and the Diocese of 

Sheffield. As I write, exploratory 

work is taking place on the 

foundations of the church with 

full works due to start on July 4. 

I hope that by the time that you 

are reading this, work will be well 

underway. 

When the project has been 

completed, the church will have a 

new kitchen with facilities to feed 

30 or so people, a new parish 

office, more accessible toilets, 

better-equipped meeting rooms 

and a more attractive worship area. 

We believe that the new building 

will be of tremendous benefi t 

not just to the regular Sunday 

congregation, but also to the wider 

community as the church will be 

open longer for private prayer 

and contemplation and there will 

be greater opportunities for us 

to extend Christian hospitality to 

those in our neighbourhood who 

need it most. 

Hopefully you are already aware 

that we have been worshipping 

at Abbey Lane Primary School 

since January where we are 

holding our Sunday 9am and 11am 

services. It has been 

a great experience 

worshipping 

in a different 

location 

and we are 

extremely 

grateful to the 

governors of 

the school and 

the head teacher, 

Maxine Stafford, 

for allowing us to 

use the school building. 

Perhaps you’ve never been to 

church before because the idea 

of coming into a religious building 

puts you off. If that’s the case then 

come to the school and see what 

Church outside of a church looks 

like! 

Our friends at Woodseats 

Methodist Church have very kindly 

allowed us to use their building for 

our regular Thursday 10am service 

of Holy Communion, and we hope 

that this will give us an opportunity 

to share worship across Christian 

traditions. 

What the building works do 

mean is that we are unable to 

conduct funerals and weddings 

in the church until the project is 

completed and any baptisms will 

take place in the school and not the 

church. We also do not yet know 

what Christmas services we will be 

able to hold as the completion date 

for the works is set for February. 

We apologise for any 

inconvenience that the building 

works may cause, but we are 

confi dent that the new building 

will be a wonderful asset to our 

parish and we hope that as many 

of the parish as possible will feel 

encouraged to come along and 

visit once the work has been 

completed. 

Rev Toby Hole 

Reshaping the Church 




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If you go down to the woods 

today, you’re sure of a big 

surprise! A well-known 

line from a great children’s 

song. Well, we’re hoping 

this is true for our pupils at Abbey 

Lane School as we embark on a 

massive woodland project. 

We are very fortunate to have a 

large woodland area on our land, 

one that the children love to go 

to and experience nature, look 

for mini beasts, bird-watch, build 

dens – you name it. BUT there is 

one drawback. The area offers no 

shelter from the elements and is 

quite overgrown. 

Since I became a Governor, 

the teaching staff and pupils have 

mentioned how they would love to 

be able to use this area more and 

to really develop it and allow it to 

become an extension of our school 

buildings and classrooms. We 

have spent many an hour talking 

about how we could do this and 

what we would like to achieve. The 

Governors gave the teaching staff 

a ‘magic wand’ and asked what 

they really wanted, we also asked 

the children how they felt we could 

improve the woodland area. 

Their replies involved a 

classroom, a swimming pool, a 

singing circle and a gardener’s 

club! We vowed to try and make 

their ideals a reality, minus the 

swimming pool! And so, fast 

forward a year and we have 

started to fundraise for our 

woodland classroom. 

On Friday June 24 our staff, 

Governors, parents and pupils 

all took part in a sponsored walk 

around Millhouses Park. Fancy 

dress was encouraged and prizes 

were awarded for imagination as 

the children also took part in a 

scavenger hunt along the way. 

After the walk all participants 

received a wooden medal and we 

all enjoyed a picnic, stoned baked 

pizza and a few games. It was a 

lovely event, the children really 

brought a smile to our faces as 

they raced round the course. 

We haven’t yet added up all the 

sponsorship money as it is still 

coming in, but we are very hopeful 

we will have made a dent in our 

£6,000 target! 

Jemma Taylor 

Chair of Governors, Abbey 

Lane Primary School 

Woodland Learning 




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Photographing the 

L 

Landscape photography is a great 

passion of mine. It had always 

been a hobby and just over 10 

years ago, when changing career 

from surgery to photography, 

I was fortunate enough that it could 

become a large part of my work. Being 

out in the landscape, for me, is so 

inspiring, invigorating and revitalising – 

something I aim to convey to the viewer 

in my images. 

Much careful planning is usually 

involved in getting myself in the right 

place at the right time – striving to 

capture the landscape in all its glory 

demands perseverance and patience. 

Some images are captured quickly 

whilst others require several visits – 

often returning empty handed. It is easy 

to become demoralised after failed 

outings, but persistence is usually 

rewarded and the rewards far outweigh 

any downside. 

There is nothing quite like the buzz 

you get on the way back home when 

you just know that you’ve got a cracker 

in the bag! 

For most of us, life is busy – a 

continual rush from one place to the 

next. Landscape photography can be a 

much needed antidote to this. For me 

to make meaningful images, I need to 

slow down to absorb my surroundings 

and to take careful note of the details, 

before piecing together the composition. 

For those viewing my work, I endeavour 

to reveal those hidden details and most 

transient of moments that are all so 

easily missed as life passes us by. 

Living in Sheffi eld, the Peak District 

is just a stone’s throw away and is a 

constant source of inspiration – what 

a place to have on the doorstep! The 

landscape is so varied, offering endless 

opportunities throughout the seasons. 

It is divided into two main areas, the 

dark peak and the white peak. The Dark 

Peak, with its gritstone plateaus and 

edges, forms an upturned ‘U’ shape 

which encases the White Peak to the 

north, east and west. The White Peak, 

which lost its gritstone cap during the 

last ice age, offers a rather different 

landscape – a gently undulating 

limestone plateau interrupted by 

spectacular dales and steep-sided 




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Landscape 

valleys. Whether photographically 

minded or not, it is well worth a visit. 

Finally, when a photograph comes 

together successfully, it can be tempting 

to take all the praise and glory. But in 

reality I am merely recording glimpses 

in time of the wonderful creation we 

find all around us. 

For more information about my 

work and the prints and workshops 

I offer, or to see a larger selection 

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grahamdunn.co.uk or telephone 

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Graham Dunn 




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Places available this September at 

St Chad’s Pre-school 

Directly opposite Abbey Lane 

School with a large outside 

space to grow strawberries and 

run to your heart’s content, St 

Chad’s Pre-school is a 

small and friendly setting that 

has been running for over 25 

years. 

Providing a warm and 

caring environment, the 

‘Aunties’ support children 

between the ages of twoand-a-half 

and fi ve, helping 

them to grow and develop. 

Here are just a few quotes from 

satisifi ed parents: 

“The outside space is brilliant - my 

son goes out every day. The aunties are 

pretty special too, always putting your 

child fi rst and offering a lot of love and 

numerous cuddles!” 

“Esme has settled in quickly and 

really enjoys her time there. The 

aunties are wonderful, very 

caring and attentive, and have 

many years of experience.” 

“The many years of 

experience make for a 

welcoming, happy and fun-fi lled 

setting.” 

Call us on 0752 6100 755 for 

a chat or to arrange a visit, or email 

stchadspreschool@gmail.com. We look 

forward to hearing from you!* 

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St Chad’s Church House 

56 Abbey Lane Sheffi eld S8 0BP 

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We are also a member of the Pre-school Learning Alliance 




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What sort of soil are 

you? It’s a funny 

question to ask, 

but one that Jesus 

asked of people. He 

is well known for his parables – 

the teaching stories that he told. 

Since the surrounding society 

was predominantly agrarian, 

he commonly used examples 

involving the landscape and 

environment. One of his most 

famous parables is called the 

Parable of the Soils. 

Jesus imagines a farmer 

sowing seed. He scatters the 

seed liberally and it falls on four 

different kinds of soil. The first 

is the path. Fields in Israel were 

separated by paths where the 

ground had been trodden hard 

by generations of feet. The seed 

cannot grow here, and the birds 

eat it up. The second is on rocky 

places, where the bedrock is just 

below the surface of the ground. 

The plants grow quickly, but 

because they can’t put down good 

roots, they soon wither. The third 

soil is among thorns, which choke 

the plants and stop them being 

fruitful. The final soil is the good 

soil, where the plants can grow 

and bear a healthy crop. 

Jesus explains to his disciples 

that the parable is about how 

people hear his message. Some 

people hear the message, but it 

bounces off. Others hear it and 

think that what Jesus says is 

great. But when hard times come, 

they don’t have any root and give 

up on following Jesus. Others 

are like the seed sown among 

thorns, and although they hear 

the message of Jesus, things in 

their lives just get in the way. But 

the good soil is for people who 

hear the message of Jesus and 

respond, and go from strength to 

strength. 

I think back over my last two 

years here in Woodseats, and 

I think I’ve met all four groups 

of people: People for whom the 

message of Jesus just seems 

to bounce off; people who are 

enthusiastic, but don’t want it to 

cost them anything; people who 

are interested, but then life gets 

in the way; but wonderfully also 

people who respond to what 

Jesus has said and have their 

lives transformed. 

So what sort of soil are you? 

Jesus has shaped our society 

more than anyone else in all 

history, so I think that all adults 

should take the time to think 

about the claims he made and 

what he said and did. Sadly 

all too many people live their 

lives with no more knowledge 

of Jesus than that which they 

picked up at school. Why not join 

us on a Sunday morning to hear 

more? Whether you’re a sceptic 

or a seeker, all are welcome. 

Rev Duncan Bell 

The Parable of the Soils 




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Services at St Chad’s 

During our Reshaping project, our 

services are being held in different 

venues. Full details are listed below... 

Sunday Services 

Held at Abbey Lane School 

Sunday Abbey Lane, Services 

Sheffield S8 0BN 

The The 9am 9am Service service 

● 

Traditional 

Traditional 

in 

in 

style 

style 

• Traditional in style 

● Includes 

Holy 

Holy Communion, a 

sermon 

sermon & 

hymns 

hymns 

• Includes Holy Communion, a sermon and hymns 

● • Includes 

Includes Includes refreshments afterwards 

Sunday refreshments Services afterwards 

● • Taken 

Taken taken from 

from from Common 

Common common Worship: 

Worship: worship Holy 

Holy holy Communion 

Communion 

communion 

The 9am Service 

● Traditional in style 

Lifted, 

Lifted the 

– the 11am 

11am Service 

service 

● Includes Holy Communion, a sermon & hymns 

● Informal 

and 

and ● Includes relaxed refreshments 

in 

in 

style 

style afterwards 

• Informal ● Taken and relaxed from Common in style Worship: Holy Communion 

● • An 

An An emphasis emphasis on 

on on families 

families families 

● • Includes 

Includes Includes music, 

music, music led 

led played by 

by a 

band 

band by a band 

● • 

Refreshments Refreshments Lifted, 

served 

served the served 11am from 

from from 

10.15-10.45am 

10.15-10.45am 

Service 

to 10.45 

● Informal and relaxed in style 

A joint service 

● An emphasis 

at 10am 

on 

is 

families 

being held on the first Sunday of 

● Includes music, led by a band 

most months – see our website or the banner outside Abbey 

● Refreshments served from 10.15-10.45am 

Lane School for confirmation and full details 

Weekday Services 

Morning Prayers 

Monday to Thursday at 9am 

Evening Prayers 

Held Monday 

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There are more than 50 

mentions of gardens in 

the Bible; in the very first 

chapters of Genesis we 

are in the Garden of Eden, 

planted by God. At its heart 

grows the tree of life. 

Adam and Eve are placed in 

this garden, to enjoy it, to look 

after it, to harvest their food 

from it. 

In the evenings God joins 

them, walking in the garden. 

Amazing! But disobedience to 

God sees Adam and Eve driven 

from their garden and denied 

access to the tree of life. Death 

now enters the world, bringing 

a sense of futility to human 

existence. 

But this is only the start of the 

story, not the end. 

Old Testament prophets Isaiah 

and Jeremiah promise that if we 

trust in God our lives can become 

like a well-tended, well-watered 

garden. 

Jesus told stories about 

gardens, even saying that if we 

believe in him we become like 

branches growing from a vine; 

like a gardener, God will prune us 

(Ouch!) to make us more fruitful. 

Jesus went to the Garden of 

Gethsemane to pray on the night 

he was betrayed; John’s gospel 

tells us he was crucified and 

buried in a garden. 

So the first thing he saw after 

rising from death was – a garden. 

In fact he fitted into it so well, his 

friend Mary mistook him for the 

gardener. 

In the final chapters of the Bible 

we’re shown a new earth, with 

everything harmful removed from 

it. 

At its heart is the new 

Jerusalem: down its central street 

flows a river, the water of life. On 

the banks grows the tree of life. 

Everything humanity lost in 

Eden is now restored; death itself 

is abolished, we can live forever 

with God. 

If we want to enjoy this garden 

of God in the future, we need to 

let God into the garden of our 

lives now. 

I know from experience that 

a garden will produce weeds, 

brambles and thistles very easily if 

left untended. 

Growing anything beautiful or 

fruitful requires a lot of work, and 

a certain ruthlessness. 

Brambly, prickly attitudes and 

weedy, pointless ideas grow all 

too easily in my life, and I need 

to let God prune and weed as he 

sees fit. 

I need to allow his Spirit to 

change me, producing the fruit 

of love, joy, peace, patience, 

kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 

gentleness and self-control 

spoken of by Saint Paul. 

Ken Goodier 

WAITING FOR THE WORD 

Gardens in the Bible 




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Designing t 

When I was 14, my parents 

bought me a book on 

garden design written by 

John Brooks MBE. They 

knew that I was creative 

and enjoyed the outdoors so assumed 

that garden design might spark an 

interest. Spark an interest it did! The fact 

that you can change and infl uence the 

world around you, whether for nature, 

for play, or for people’s physical and 

emotional well-being was a revelation. A 

revelation that led me to choose A levels 

that would ultimately guide me to study 

Landscape Architecture at the University 

of Sheffi eld. 

Following over 16 years in practice as a 

landscape architect and garden designer, 

I fi nd myself continually reaffi rming my 

belief that the importance we attach to 

the landscape around us is well placed. 

Whether it be a windswept moorland, 

rolling farmland, a public park or, on 

a much smaller scale, our gardens, 

the landscape infl uences our mood, 

our health, the value we place on our 

environment and the way we interact with 

it and with one another. 

A recent study by the Royal 

Horticultural Society (RHS) titled 

Gardening Matters: Urban Gardens 

notes that 85 per cent of the population 

live within urban environments and that 

between 22 per cent to 27 per cent of our 

towns and cities comprise of gardens, 

which in turn represents broadly half of all 

the urban green space available today. 

Given this statistic it is unsurprising that 

owning a garden can add signifi cantly to 

the value of our homes. One of the many 

reasons people employ me to work with 

their gardens is a desire to increase its 

value. According to moneywise.co.uk 




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the Landscape 

and Jan Hytch, (president of the National 

Association of Estate Agents), a welldesigned 

and maintained garden can 

add up to ten per cent onto the value of 

your property and can positively influence 

its sale. I always hope, however that my 

involvement helps to broaden my clients’ 

understanding of the wider benefits 

that gardens provide. Gardens connect 

us with nature, they promote physical, 

psychological and spiritual wellbeing, as 

well as adding value to our houses. 

Every garden has the potential to 

provide valuable habitat for local wildlife. 

Flowers provide nectar sources for bees 

and butterflies, trees and large shrubs 

provide opportunities for birds to nest and 

forage, and a woodpile or pond (however 

small) provides a home to invertebrates, 

amphibians and reptiles. According to the 

RSPB, gardens may provide a breeding 

habitat for at least 20 per cent of the UK 

populations of house sparrows, starlings, 

greenfinches and blackbirds, and without 

people regularly feeding birds in their 

gardens their numbers would significantly 

decline. My wife regularly restocks the 

feeders and the sighting of a bull finch or 

jay always sparks delight. 

Gardens help us exercise 

and avoid stress. Gardens 

have been credited with 

improved cognitive function, 

alleviation of attention deficit 

disorder (ADD), improved 

relaxation and an ability to 

cope with trauma. Colour 

and fragrance in gardens 

can help dementia suffers 

reconnect with memories 

and provide stimulus for 

those with severe learning 

difficulties such as autism. 

Furthermore, gardens provide space for 

us to grow our own food and recycle our 

kitchen waste. The use of edible plants in 

gardens is a particular interest of mine. 

My son Thomas is a regular visitor to the 

strawberry patch and likes nothing more 

than running about and stealing peas or 

tomatoes. 

Gardens can provide important 

space for prayer and meditation. 

Many of England’s best loved gardens 

such as Chatsworth include walks for 

contemplation, labyrinths (also known as 

prayer paths) and planting which seeks to 

reflect the Garden of Eden. Many of the 

country’s finest kitchen gardens belonged 

to former monasteries and cloisters, and 

more recently a trend for ‘quiet gardens’ 

or gardens of remembrance is growing in 

popularity. 

Whether your garden extends to acres 

or is restricted to a small balcony with a 

few pots, my years in practice have shown 

me that for every penny spent, and for 

all the time passed in our gardens, they 

are always rewarding and their real value 

immeasurable. 

Nathan Edwards 




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Our own Environmental 

U 

Don’t worry if you have 

never heard the term 

‘environmental up-cycling’ 

– I just made it up! Having 

had your attention caught 

by the headline though, you may 

decide that the term isn’t so far off 

the mark. 

There is an entrance to the 

Woodseats Allotments site off Abbey 

Lane down a narrow track between 

numbers 118 and 120. If you have 

ever gone down the track and 

walked past the allotment tenants’ 

car park to gain access to the 

cemetery, you will have noticed a 

large area of very overgrown land to 

the right hand side. Over the years 

the boundary fence has collapsed 

under the weight of fallen branches 

from the massive cypress trees that 

border the cemetery. Sycamore 

saplings, brambles, nettles and even the 

dreaded Japanese Knotweed colonised 

the area which became a magnet for fly 

tippers and, worst of all, plastic parcels of 

dog excrement. 

Then along came Richard Lee, a 

Woodseats Allotment Society tenant and 

committee member, with a plan to turn 

this dreadful eyesore into a community 

orchard and picnic area. His first task 

was to consult with the Allotments Office 

and, through them, the council’s ecology 

team, to gain the necessary approvals for 

the project. His next task was to fund the 

project without impacting on the limited 

funds of Woodseats Allotment Society. 

He applied to the Skipton Building 

Society who run a national competition 

for their Grass Roots Giving Awards. Only 

projects that benefit the wider community 

are chosen to go through to a public vote. 

Successful projects are those with most 

This picture of an allotment tenant’s children 

helping clear ivy on the site, won a national 

competition for amateur photographer and 

keen gardener Sarah Peet 

Woodseats Allotments Society would like 

to thank the following for their help: 

zzThe council’s Woodlands team who cut 

down the unsafe trees; 

zzThe Allotment Ranger who removed 

rubbish, helped chip tons of brush wood 

and replaced the boundary fence; 

zzVolunteers (including children) who 

cut up and removed logs, helped remove 

bigger tree stumps and helped cart 

countless barrows of wood chippings. 

zzAnderson Tree Care who provided 

enough chippings to mulch much of the 

one-acre site! 

zzSarah Reynolds who donated two metal 

gates and an ornamental archway to go 

over a third. 

zzThe council allotments department which 

is committed to eradicating Japanese 

knotweed on the site and has been very 

supportive 

zzSkipton Building Society’s Sheffield 

branch for its interest and support. 




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Up-cycling 

votes. In November 2015 Richard 

heard his bid for a £500 Grass 

Roots Giving Award had been 

successful. Then the serious work 

began! 

Six months later, and following 

a lot of hard work involving 

allotment tenants, local residents 

and family members, Richard’s 

vision to improve the space, 

was achieved. What was once 

a heavily overgrown no-go area 

is now a community orchard and 

picnic area and a safe play area for 

the children of allotment tenants. 

The project was officially opened 

on July 10 by Allison Edgeler, 

manager of the Sheffield branch of 

the Skipton Building Society. Allison was 

the first to make a wish on the ‘Wishing 

Tree’ and to place a memory on the 

‘Memory Tree’. Allison’s daughter, who is 

eight years old, was the first to follow the 

‘fairy trail’. 

Three picnic benches have been 

located towards the bottom end of the 

site. We hope that people living in the 

area will come to appreciate this new 

green-space and enjoy it. In a year 

or two there will hopefully be fruit for 

people to harvest and enjoy – unless the 

squirrels get there first of course!. 

There is sufficient money in the funds 

to replace the three fruit trees that did 

not survive the winter. Eventually Richard 

would like to populate the entire site with 

fruit trees to leave a legacy for future 

generations. Hopefully, an overgrown 

eyesore of a site will, in time, become 

an attractive and productive area for the 

benefit of all. Environmental up-cycling at 

its best don’t you think? 

Sue Lee, 

Woodseats Allotment Society 

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What to do With an Untidy Corner 

What do you do 

with a very untidy 

corner of your back 

garden? The other 

corner has a shed 

in it. It may be full of junk but, 

outwardly, with the door shut, it 

looks okay. However, its partner 

across the other side is a mess. 

Old flower pots; broken children’s 

toys; assorted rocks; ladders. You 

name it, it’s there. 

We thought we would have 

a summer house but they are 

expensive and we wouldn’t have 

used it anyway, there being very 

little sun in S8 let alone in that 

dark spot. While we decide, I 

am happy to allow some weedy 

foliage to hide the problem. 

To make more room, I have 

decided that our old conifer is too 

tall and straggly and will have to 

go. I have started that process by 

cutting off all the lower branches 

and burning them in my new 

toy, a garden incinerator. I can 

recommend these highly. If you 

have had a stressful day, cut a 

few branches and have a burn-off. 

Feel all your troubles vanish as 

you stoke and burn. 

When that tree has gone, and 

there is nothing left to burn, the 

question remains – how to fill that 

corner. The latest idea is to 

have a covered double seat, 

with floral arrangements 

around it. Perhaps a bit of 

decking and a raised bed. 

Once the conifer has gone, 

the apple tree will spread 

and prosper. 

Some people have 

gardens that are too neat 

and regimented. Perhaps 

a garden reflects its owner. 

I like disorder, with wild 

flowers and piles of old wood 

which attract insects. However, 

some folk go the other way, with 

sofas and old tyres littering the 

place. Colour is essential so you 

must tend to your borders, keep 

the grass cut and prepare some 

hanging baskets. 

Children are key to how a 

garden looks. If you have kids it 

is a waste of time trying to keep 

your garden neat and a waste of 

money buying too many plants. 

Keep everything in the borders 

and yell frequently at them to keep 

off, or else! When the children 

grow up and leave (if ever) then 

you can devote some time and 

expense on making the garden 

look colourful and interesting. 

One last tip. If you have a small 

patch of grass, either at front 

or back of your house, get rid 

of it and convert the space with 

pebbles. They don’t cost much 

and once you have put them down 

they are low-maintenance. They 

look good and you can move pots 

on and off as you like. 

Happy gardening. 

Son of the Soil 




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Digging up Gardens’ H 

I 

took a stroll through the Botanical 

Gardens recently with a friend who 

works as a volunteer there and I 

learned a great deal. For instance, 

did you know that the gardens 

cover approximately 19 acres, that they 

were the result of a locally-organised 

petition in 1833 to create an open and 

healthy space for the people of Sheffield 

to enjoy, and that farmland was bought 

with £7,500 raised by selling shares? 

There was a competition to design the 

gardens’ layout and the judges chose 

Robert Marnock’s design. He was 

the gardener at Bretton Hall, now the 

Yorkshire Sculpture Park, and became 

the first curator with an annual salary 

of £100. Victorians liked to plant trees 

on ‘mounds’ allowing their roots to 

be exposed. Marnock favoured the 

fashionable ‘carpet bedding’ – formal 

areas planted to resemble the intricate 

patterns and colours on Indian carpets. 

When the gardens were first 

opened, admission was restricted to 

shareholders and annual subscribers, 

the general public only being allowed 

access on four gala days a year, with 

tickets costing 2s 6d. During four days 

in 1836, more than 12,00 people came 

through the turnstiles, only one of which 

remains at the Botanical Road entrance. 

I often wondered why it was there! 

Over the next 150 years, the Botanical 

Gardens had its share of ups and 

downs – financial difficulties, changes 

of ownership, rival attractions in the 

shape of new ‘free-entry’ city parks and 

considerable World War Two damage. 

Sheffield Town Trust, a group dating 

back to 1297, still owns the gardens 

but the council manages them. By the 

1980s the pavilions were in danger of 

The Botanical Gardens 

collapse and the gardens were beginning 

to look rather dilapidated. 

FOBS (Friends of the Botanical 

Gardens Sheffield) was created in 1984 

and fundraising began in earnest. Nine 

years later volunteers began to work 

in the gardens – today there are only 

five full-time staff but approximately 

30 people who give several hours a 

week to help maintain the gardens. In 

1996 FOBS set up a trust in the hope 

of getting grants for restoration. The 

Heritage Lottery Fund awarded a grant 

of over £5million and, after much hard 

work and the incredible generosity of the 

University, the Town Trust, the council, 

local businesses and individuals, the 

magnificently-restored gardens were 

officially opened in June 2007. 

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Hitler’s Canary 

by Sandi Toksvig 

This book tells how, 

during the Second World 

War, ordinary Danish 

people tried to save their 

Jewish countrymen from 

deportation to Germany. It was 

inspired by the author’s father’s 

experience during the German 

occupation. 

The story begins as Bamse, 

aged 10, is living in a fl at in 

Copenhagen with her actress 

mother, artist and set designer 

father, older brother and sister 

Orlando and Masha, uncle Max 

and Thomas the wardrobe master. 

They are a happy-go-lucky family 

living in a fantasy world. In the fl at 

above lives Anton, Bamse’s friend, 

and his family who are Jewish. 

In April 1940 German planes 

fl ew over the city destroying 

the air force on the ground. 

Thousands of troops were 

transported in by sea and, within 

days, the government had 

surrendered and the occupation 

had begun. At fi rst nothing much 

changed. Not all German troops 

were unfriendly; the population 

made fun of them and played 

pranks which were tolerated. 

Bamse and Anton enjoyed some 

escapades. Bamse’s father 

disapproved but Orlando joined 

the Resistance saying that 

Denmark was Hitler’s canary 

locked in a cage singing to Hitler’s 

tune. 

Over the following years things 

got tougher, food was short, 

restrictions tighter and some Jews 

were deported. 

Some funny incidents 

happened, not least the local taxi 

driver kept his car going by using 

methane gas from cows on with 

the resulting smell. However 

the Jews became increasingly 

restricted and some were rounded 

up. The family 

and the taxi 

driver were 

involved 

in daring 

schemes to 

hide them and 

transport them 

in coffi ns to 

the hospital 

cellars. 

Bamse’s 

family staged 

a theatrical 

performance 

for the 

Germans in 

their home 

with many 

Jews hidden 

behind a 

false wall. 

In these and other rescues, 

not all Germans were bad nor 

Danes good. Many German 

soldiers including Masha’s friend, 

turned a blind eye and saved 

lives while some Danes betrayed 

their friends. Uncle Max had been 

a collaborator but helped in the 

end. Thomas sacrifi ced his life 

to save some Jews from being 

discovered. 

In all, some 7,220 escaped the 

to Sweden by sea and only two 

per cent of the population was 

lost. 

I enjoyed this book which was 

originally written for children of 

how a family living in a fantasy 

world based reality and played a 

key role in the war. 

Mary Diskin 

St Chad’s Third Age Book 

Group 

Book Review 




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fasted for 72 days, having no food or 

water, living only by God‟s grace. 

During this fast Yun was repeatedly 

tortured, humiliated and beaten by 

Prison Guards and fellow prisoners. In 

prison violent and dangerous men 

observed Yun‟s faith and obedience 

Registers 2016 

to God. They realised that he was not 

a criminal, just a committed Christian 

and came themselves into a deep and 

loving relationship with Jesus. 

Thanksgivings 

Miraculous and loving interventions 

May helped Yun for example jumping over 

22 a ten Deni foot Eden wall; Forster walking through the 

open doors of a high security prison 

unobserved and walking after his legs 

Baptisms 

were so severely broken (he was told 

April he would be crippled for life after this 

28 punishment). Caroline Depner 

Whatever Yun experienced, God 

repeatedly demonstrated his 

Confirmations 

faithfulness never leaving him or his 

May family to cope alone. We will 

12 probably Craig Turton never experience this kind of 

persecution Nathan Edwards but this book is testimony 

to Rupert the incredible Allen power of God and his 

Holy Katy Spirit. Watt 

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For Weddings 

and Funerals 

You don’t have to be a churchgoer 

to have a wedding in church or 

be ‘religious’ to have a dignifi ed and 

meaningful funeral service at St Chad’s. 

If you live in the Woodseats or 

Beauchief area, St Chad’s would be 

delighted to help you, whether it is 

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to a loved one. 

For weddings please contact St Chad’s 

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• If you have had a new baby and would 

St Chads Church, Linden Avenue, Woodseats 

like to celebrate that baby’s birth with 


a service in church then please come 

to one of our thanksgiving and baptism 

mornings at St Chad’s. 

The morning will explain the difference 

between the two services and give 

parents an opportunity to ask any 

questions. 

Please call the church offi ce on 0114 

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Services & Opening times 

During August & September 2016 

Holy Communion 11.00am: 

Sun 7th 14th & 28th August 

Sun 4th 11th 25th September 

Evensong ( third Sunday)3pm: 

Sunday 21st August 

Sunday 18th September 

Heritage Open Days 

....come & explore this hidden gem 

9th & 10th Sept 11am - 4pm 

11th Sept 1pm - 4pm 

The Abbey will be open 

on the first Thurs of every month 

4th August 4th September & 6th October 

between 9am - 11.00am 

Quiet & Reflective Prayer 

View of Beauchief Abbey & Cottages, 

Beauchief Abbey Lane S8 7BD 

All Welcome 

Our Services are based on the Book of 

Common Prayer & Refreshments 

are served afterwards 

email info@beauchiefabbey.org.uk 

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Contacts 

WOODSEATS • SHEFFIELD 

CHURCH OFFICE 

Term time offi ce hours: 

Mon - 10am-1pm; Tues - 9.30am-1pm; 

Thurs - 9.30am-1pm; Fri - 9am-11am 

Church Offi ce Administrator Helen Reynolds email: offi ce@stchads.org 

Please note: The church offi ce has been relocated during our building works – please contact us via telephone 

or email during this time 

Vicar Toby Hole (Vicarage) 274 9302 

email: toby@stchads.org 

Curate Duncan Bell 274 5086 

email: duncan@stchads.org 

Assistant Minister for the elderly Yvonne Smith 274 5086 

Readers 

Daren Craddock, Amy Hole, Pauline 

Johnson and Yvonne Smith 274 5086 

Youth Worker Nick Seaman 274 5086 

email: nick@stchads.org 

Besom in Sheffi eld 

Steve Winks and 

Darren Coggins 07875 950170 

Impact magazine Tim Hopkinson 274 5086 

email: impact@stchads.org 

Church Wardens Ann Firth 274 5086 

Ann Lomax 274 5086 

Deputy Wardens Linda McCann 274 5086 

David Green 274 5086 

Uniformed Groups 

Group Scout Leader Ian Jackson 235 3044 

Guide Leader Jemma Taylor 296 0555 

CHURCH HOUSE 

56 Abbey Lane 

Bookings Helen Reynolds 274 5086 

VISIT OUR WEBSITE: www.stchads.org 

PLEASE NOTE: The inclusion of advertisements in Impact in no way means the 

advertiser is endorsed or recommended by St Chad’s Church. 




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