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St Chad’s Church, Linden Avenue, Woodseats 

Church Office: Linden Avenue, Sheffield S8 0GA 

Tel: (0 14) 274 5086 

9am Traditional Communion Service 

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email: office@stchads.org 

website: www.stchads.org 

April/May 2018 

WOODSEATS • SHEFFIELD 

Have a Go with your 

FREE seeds 

see page 12 

Sunday March 25 

Easter worship 

at St Chad’s 

PALM SUNDAY 

Celebrate Easter with us at St Chad’s 

Details of our services, events & activities inside 

11am Lifted Family Service 

Thursday March 29 

MAUNDY THURSDAY 

10am Our weekly service of Holy 

Communion 

Friday March 30 

GOOD FRIDAY 

10am Good Friday Family Service 

(especially for children) 

1-3pm Meditations Around the Cross 

Sunday April 1 

EASTER SUNDAY 

9am Easter Celebration with 

Holy Communion 

11am Family Service with 


Come and celebrate the risen Jesus!

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 

St Chad's 

Church & 

Church 

Office 

Church 

House 

Abbey Lane 

School 

Camping Lane 

Chesterfield Road 

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PALM SUNDAY 


G OD FRIDAY 

EASTER SUNDAY 

9am Traditional Co munion Service 

1am Lifted Family Service 

10am Our w ekly service of Holy 

Co munion 

10am G od Friday Family Service 

(especia for children) 

1-3pm Meditations Around the Cro s 


9am Easter Celebration with 

Holy Co munion 

1am Family Service with 

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Come and celebrate the risen Jesus! 


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A 

few years ago, whilst on holiday in Wales, I stopped 

at a place that claimed to be the wettest place in 

Britain (there are in fact quite a few places that 

make that claim!). The name of it escapes me, 

and I suspect that I couldn’t pronounce it even if 

my memory was better, but I can remember it well. It was a 

narrow valley leading to a river, and from top to bottom it was 

green. Not green as in a lawn or even a well-stocked forest. 

It was lusciously green – the leaves were green, the bark was 

green and the stones were green. Whether or not it really was 

the wettest place in Britain, it certainly did not lack for water. 

It is odd that our national colours are red, white and blue 

because really I think that we are a nation of green. We prize 

our lawns; we enjoy our fi elds, we cherish our trees (particularly in 

Sheffi eld….) and we can get very hot and bothered when our precious 

greenbelt is threatened. 

And yet our relationship with our countryside is such a perverse one. 

As a nation we were among the fi rst to recognise that our landscape 

could be beautiful as well as threatening. Yet whilst the Lake Poets were 

rhapsodising about the sublime Cumbrian hills, not that far to the south 

the sprawling conurbations and mills of Lancashire and Yorkshire were 

consuming and polluting the countryside. Our capital city was one of the 

fi rst to have large public parks planned within it (“the Lungs of London”) 

and yet at the same time the River Thames was utterly dead. The 

novels of Thomas Hardy and the paintings of John Constable continue 

to hold the public imagination long after the bucolic idylls they described 

have been torn up and replaced by mega-fi elds with their ubiquitous and 

uniform crops of oil seed rape and sugar beet. Our Green and Pleasant 

Land is part reality, part myth, part longing for another world that never 

really existed. 

It is that longing for another world that I think strikes the human heart 

when we fi nd ourselves on one of those (rare) summer days in a park, 

garden, hill or valley when the sun gently bathes the land and those 

rather hackneyed words of Robert Browning seem almost true: “The 

Lark’s on the wing, the snail’s on the thorn, God’s in his heaven and all’s 

right with the world”. We know of course that all isn’t right in the world, 

even in the little patch of heaven that we temporarily fi nd ourselves in, 

but perhaps we momentarily get a glimpse of what it might be like if that 

really was the case. 

At its best these moments do point us to a truth about the 

reality of heaven: a harmony of humanity and nature held 

together by God. The Bible calls this the New Creation 

– a world where human wrongdoing needs no longer 

pollute or destroy God’s good world. The promise of the 

Bible is that at the end of all things God will create a new 

earth and that new creation begins in our lives whenever 

we accept the love of God and allow his love to work 

within us. 

Rev Toby Hole, Vicar, St Chad’s, Woodseats 

February/March 2018 

Have a Go with your 

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see page 12 

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This Green & Pleasant Land 


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“I missed it. Which one came first?” 

How do bees get 

to school? 

On the school 

buzz! 

What do you 

call a cow on a 

trampoline? 

A milk shake! 

A young snake asked his mother: 

“Mum, are we poisonous?” 

“Why do you want to know?” 

she asked. 

“Because I 

just bit my tongue!” 

Why are fi sh so smart? 

Because they live in 

schools! 

Why did little 

Jenny always 

tiptoe past the 

medicine box? 

She didn’t want 

to wake the 

sleeping pills! 

A driver is 

stopped by 

a policeman 

who sees two 

penguins in his 

car. 

The shocked 

offi cer tells him: 

“You’ve got to 

takes those two 

to the zoo right 

away!” The 

man agrees 

and leaves. 

The next day 

the same police 

offi cer stops 

the man again 

and sees the 

penguins are 

still there. 

“I told you 

yesterday that 

you had to take 

them to the 

zoo, didn’t I?” 

he says. 

“Yes,” replies 

the man, “I did 

and we had a 

great time. 

So today 

I’m taking 

them 

swimming.” 

Fun and Laughs 

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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. 

•Fridays - 10.30am: Graves Park. 

Meet in the main entrance, Graves 

Leisure Centre. 

Call 07505 639524 or visit www. 

healthwalksinsheffi eld.btck.co.uk 

for details about any of the walks. 

March 25-April 1 

Easter Treasure Hunt 

Starts at St Chad’s on March 25 

A week-long treasure hunt with 

plenty of mental and physical 

exercise to prepare you for Easter. 

See page 9 for more details. 

April 2 

Tots on the Farm – The Little 

Red Hen 

Whirlow Hall Farm 

10-11.30am; and 1-2.30pm 

Take your little ones to listen to 

the story of The Little Red Hen, 

take part in related activities and 

visit the farm animals. For children 

aged up to fi ve years. Booking is 

essential at www.whirlowhallfarm. 

org. The cost is £5 per child, 

accompanying adults and under 

2s go free. 

April 4 and 5 

Easter Lambing 


11am-3pm 

Enjoy the wonder of new-born 

lambs, and take part in an Easter 

Egg Hunt Trail, pony riding, 

face-painting, craft activities 

for children, Punch & Judy and 

storytelling. Entrance to the farm 

is £4 for children under 14, £5 

adults, families £16 (two children 

and two adults), and under 2s get 

in free. 

April 6 and 13 

Easter Egg Hunt 


11am-3pm 

Children can solve clues, carry 

out tasks, fi gure out an anagram 

and search all around the farm for 

eggs. All children will receive a big 

chocolate egg at the end of the 

hunt, as well as mini eggs. There 

will also be Easter-themed crafts 

and an interactive story corner. 

The hunt takes place hourly and 

costs £10. 

Call in for a Cuppa 

at Church House, 56 Abbey Lane 

10am to 12noon 

on the last Saturday of each month 

Bring & Buy (new items) 

Handicrafts and Home Baking 



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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. 

Thursdays – 10.30am: 

Lowedges. Meet at the Community 

Wing, Lowedges Junior School. 

Call 0114 203 9337. 

April 7 

National City Of Sheffield Council for Youth Divorced, 

Single Orchestra and Widowed 

Tuesdays Sheffield 8-11pm Cathedral 

Norton 7.30pmCountry Club 

Club City offering Sheffield friendship Youth and Orchestra social 

activities. brings young musicians from in 

and Call around Magdalen Sheffield on 0114 together to 

2394326. perform orchestral works. 

January April 8 and 30 - 22, February and May 5 13 

AEGON 

Abbeydale 

British 

Miniature 

Tennis 

Railway 

Tour 

Graves 

Abbeydale 

Tennis 

Road 

and 

South 

Leisure Centre 

1-5pm 

World ranked players compete 

The regular open days at 

alongside 

Abbeydale 

local 

Miniature 

Sheffield 

Railway. 

players. 

Call 0114 283 9900. 

April 14 

February Book Sale 5 

Book 36 Crawshaw Sale Grove, Beauchief 

3610am-12pm 

Crawshaw Grove, Beauchief 

10am-12pm Good quality second-hand books 

Good for sale quality in aid second-hand of the Alzheimer’s books 

for Society. sale in Donations aid of the Alzheimer‟s 

of good 

Society. condition Donations paperback of novels paperback or 

novels 

biographies 

or biographies 

are welcome. 

in good 

condition April 16are welcome (but not 

larger Attercliffe books to due Wincobank to space and 

limitations). Back – The Story of Mary Ann 

Rawson 

February Bishops House 5 

Free 7.30pm Environmental Activities 

Millhouses A talk by Penny Park Rea giving a brief 

10.30am-12.30pm 

history of Mary Anne Rawson and 

Obstacle the Read course family and of Wincobank stream 

dipping Hall who activities campaigned for 8 - relentlessly 13 year 

olds. 

Call 0114 263 4335. 

Call 0114 230 8842. 

February 12 

Free Environmental Activities 

Millhouses for the abolition Park of slavery and 

1.30-3.30pm 

supported many other social 

Nature causes. quiz trail, stream dipping 

and 

April 

bug 

20 

hunting activities for 8 - 13 

year 

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olds. 

Weird Albion 

Bishops Call 0114 House 263 4335. 

7.30pm for 8pm start 

February Justin Hopper 12 and Sharron Kraus 

Free with Chris Environmental Jones. An evening Activities of 

Ecclesall prose, poetry Woods and Sawmill music. 

10.30am-12.30pm 

Tickets are £7 in advance or £8 on 

Nature the door quiz (includes trail, stream a free dipping glass of 

and wine). bug hunting activities for 8 - 13 

year olds. 

April Call 28 0114 235 6348. 

Norton Farmers Market 

February St James’ 20 Church, Norton 

Why 12-4pm Not Try A Bike 

Greenhil Park 

10am-2pm May 6 

Rediscover 

Pedlar’s Corner 

your cycling 

Flea Market 

skills in 

Greenhill 

Abbeydale 

Park. 

Picture 

The 

House 

rangers will 

10am-3pm 

provide a bike, helmet and 

A mixture of general flea market 

instruction. Meet at the Bowls 

stalls and specialist antiques, 

Pavilion, 

vintage, retro, 

Greenhill 

arts, 

Park. 

crafts, makers 

Booking and salvage is essential. stalls. 

Call 0114 283 9195. 

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Scouts’ Growing Project 

Last spring St Chad’s Scouts 

were looking for community 

projects they could become 

involved with, and at the 

same time Woodseats 

Allotment Society was looking for 

community groups to use beds on 

its Community Hub plots. 

The hub comprises two full-size 

plots which had originally been 

developed by a charity working 

with young adults with learning 

diffi culties. 

Following a chance conversation 

between representatives of both 

the Scout Group and the Allotment 

Society, it was agreed that St 

Chad’s Scout Group would take 

over one of the vacant beds. 

Unfortunately, it was almost the 

end of the planting season when 

we started, but the Allotment 

Society came up trumps by 

providing suffi cient plants for our 

fi rst season. 

The Scouts visited the allotment 

on several Wednesday evenings 

to plant, weed, and tidy the plot. 

The Cubs also joined in, planting 

bedding plants, and setting some 

lettuces they had grown from seed. 

In the summer, when Scouts 

traditionally break for the school 

holidays, leaders attended on 

Wednesday evenings to give any 

young people in the group who 

were at a loose end something 

they could take part in, and a few 

of the Scouts, Cubs, Beavers, and 

parents took advantage of this. 

When autumn came we had a 

session for them to clear and tidy 

the plot ready for the winter. 

The Scouts reciprocated by 

helping members of the Allotment 

Society move wood chippings to 

the Community Orchard on the 

site, and by providing an event 

shelter for one of their open days. 

One of the community hub plots 

There were three high points. 

First was seeing young people who 

had no experience of gardening 

develop an interest in growing their 

own food. Second was ‘harvest 

night’ when all the vegetables 

were picked by the Scouts, and 

taken home for consumption. Third 

came Halloween when seven Jack 

O’ Lanterns were made using 

pumpkins grown on the allotment. 

We have already made plans for 

the next season, with the young 

people (under a little guidance!) 

choosing what to plant. We intend 

to grow all the vegetables and fruit 

from seed where possible, using 

greenhouse space generously 

made available by the Allotment 

Society. We see the allotment as a 

long-term project, and hope to be 

there for years to come. 

We have to acknowledge, with 

grateful thanks, the support and 

practical assistance we have 

received from members of the 

Allotment Society. Without their 

help the project would have 

remained a passing thought and 

never actually got off the ground. It 

is also true to say that without their 

help watering the plot during the 

hot summer evenings (remember 

them?) the vegetables would have 

not got off the ground either! 

We look forward to a long and 

fruitful connection with Woodseats 

Allotment Society. 

Nigel Ross 



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Do you like treasure 

hunts, challenges and fun? 

Do you like treasure 

Join us for our Easter treasure hunt, where 6 clues 

will take you through the story of Easter to the final 

location...and hunts, the challenges treasure! and fun? 

Join us on Sunday the 25th of March at St Chads 

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way. will take you through the story of Easter to the final 

If you 

location...and 

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Join us on Sunday 25th March - Palm 

Sunday - to receive the first clue!

Why Just Eat Your Greens ? 

We’re told that 

vegetables are good 

for us, but in what 

way? How much 

veg are we talking? 

Vegetables in which form? Do 

smoothies count?! 

Vegetables offer us a variety of 

benefi ts, broccoli for example is 

full of Vitamin C, K and folic acid; 

green beans are a good source 

of Vitamin C, folic acid, iron and 

potassium; and carrots are rich in 

beta-carotene, vitamins A and K 

and potassium… I could go on. 

We know that vegetables are 

a wonderful source of vitamins 

and minerals which support our 

immune system, our central 

nervous system, our cognitive 

function and maintain healthy teeth 

and bones amongst other things. 

These essential nutrients perform 

hundreds of roles on the body, 

convert food into energy and repair 

cellular damage. 

So vegetables are full of nutrients 

that keep us healthy. They are also 

predominantly carbohydrates which 

provide our bodies with energy, 

and all get broken down into sugar. 

So whether we consume sweets, 

fruit, rice, vegetables etc, they all 

become sugar, a carbohydrate’s 

most basic form. Vegetables may 

get turned into sugar in our bodies, 

but unlike sweets, they give us 

an abundance of nutrients in the 

process. 

There are a few ways to get the 

most nutrition from your veggies. 

One of the best ways to eat fruits 

and vegetables is to eat them raw. 

Vitamins are sensitive to heat; for 

example, cooking tomatoes for 

just two minutes decreases their 

vitamin C content by ten per cent, 

and when broccoli and watercress 

are cooked an important enzyme is 

damaged which means the potency 

of helpful anti-cancer compounds 

glucosinolates, are reduced. 

Conversely, cooking carrots and 

asparagus enables our bodies to 

benefi t from beta-carotene (which 

we convert to vitamin A) and ferulic 

acid, both protective antioxidants. 

By steaming vegetables they 

retain their high water content and 

the more water your vegetables 

retain, the better their nutritional 

value. Stir frying, as it is a quick 

process, does this also. 

Eating raw fruit and vegetables 

will also fi ll you up more as, when 

raw, they tend to contain more, 

therefore are bulkier and more 

fi lling. When immersing vegetables 

in water to boil them, nutrients 

leech out of the vegetables into the 

water. 

How can we include more green 

eating in our diets? 

Try keeping fruit and vegetables 

where you can see them, that 

way you’ll be more likely to eat 

them. Perhaps a counter top fruit 

bowl, or vegetable sticks cut up 

and prepared on an eye-level 

shelf of the fridge. Explore the fruit 



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and vegetable aisle and choose a new 

vegetable or fruit to buy every time you 

shop. Order a seasonal vegetable box to 

be delivered or grow your own! Have you 

ever heard the saying ‘eat the rainbow’? 

Variety is the key to a healthy diet, and 

you may just fi nd something you really 

love. 

When following a recipe, double the 

suggested volume of vegetables in the 

ingredients list, or serve your regular 

meals with either a salad or a side of 

steamed veg, mange tout, sugar snap 

peas, baby corn… 

As a go-to snack, vegetable smoothies 

are easily made and widely available 

to buy; aim to keep the smoothie as 

vegetable-dense as possible, with just 

one portion of fruit to sweeten. Vegetable 

juices and smoothies will not give you 

as many health benefits as eating the 

vegetable whole, it will be less fibrous but 

still a lot more nutrient-dense than a bag 

of crisps and a can of pop. 

So there we have it, a small snapshot 

of the benefi ts of vegetables. Eat a 

rainbow of vegetables and fruit, and feel 

the difference. 

Helen Everatt is a qualified 

nutrition coach. To find out more visit 

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Have a Go Show 2018 

It’s nearly time to get planting, 

sewing, baking and painting! 

Yes, our community ‘village’ 

show is back again this year on 

Saturday, September 8. 

And it’s an excellent chance 

to ‘Have a Go’ at something 

new, show off your many talents, 

challenge a friend or neighbour to join in 

and have some fun. 

You can enter one or more of the 

schedule’s 40 categories, which will be 

listed under the headings of Vegetables, 

Fruit, Floral, Preserves and Baking, 

Handicrafts, Art and there will be three 

categories in the children’s section too! 

The full schedule will be printed in the 

next Impact and available on St Chad’s 

website at the same time. It’s a great day 

and we do hope you’ll consider joining 

in. 

PACKET OF SEEDS 

You will no doubt have 

noticed we have fixed a 

packet to this edition 

of Impact. It contains 

three courgette seeds. 

These are for you 

to sow in small pots 

sometime towards the 

end of April through into 

May. Then, when they 

are big enough, plant them 

outside in large pots or in the 

garden. Each plant in the garden 

needs about 1m diameter of space and 

plenty of water. 

Each plant can produce many 

courgettes, ideally harvested when they 

are approximately four to six inches 

long. 

There are lots of expert instructions 

on the internet if you are ‘Having 

a Go’ for the first time. Look 

out in the next Impact for 

the Vegetable and Baking 

categories in the show - 

you and your courgettes 

could be the proud 

owners of a red First 

certificate or even the 

much sought after ‘Best 

in Show’ medal! Last 

year’s best in show was 

a beautiful quilt entered in 

the Handicraft section. 

Remember the date – 

Saturday, September 8 – a ‘must do’ 

for your social calendar! 



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Green Tips... 

Here is some energy and money-saving advice from 

the Energy Saving Trust... 

You can save 

around £30 a year 

just by remembering 

to turn your 

appliances off 

standby mode 

Use a bowl to wash 

up rather than a 

running tap and 

save £25 a year in 

energy bills 

Only fill the kettle 

with the amount of 

water that you need 

and save around £7 

a year 

Spending one 

minute less in the 

shower each 

day will save 

up to £7 off your 

energy bills each 

year 

Turn your lights 

off when you’re 

not using 

them. If you 

switch a light 

off for just a few 

seconds, you will 

save more energy 

than it takes for the 

light to start up again 



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Playing on the Green 

B 

Billiards evolved in the 15th 

century from a game played 

outside on lawns. The name 

billiards probably originating 

from the French for stick, 

‘billard’ or ball, ‘bille’. It was played 

indoors on tables covered in green 

baize to simulate grass. The tables 

were not a standard size and had 

flat walls, or rails, around the edges 

to prevent the balls rolling off. 

Billiard balls were pushed around 

the table using large-headed 

mallets or ‘maces’. The balls were 

originally made of ivory, an average 

elephant’s tusk only providing three 

to four balls (fortunately for the 

elephants the invention of plastics 

meant billiard balls could be made 

from this). 

Whilst playing, it was difficult to 

strike a ball with the large head of 

the mace when a ball was near 

the rail. Some players would turn it 

round and use the handle, known 

as the ‘tail’ or ‘queue’ in French. 

Hence, we now know it as the cue 

and it was further developed in the 

1600s. 

Mary Queen of Scots was said to 

enjoy a game of billiards. In 1586 

her castle in Scotland was invaded 

and she was forbidden to use her 

billiard table. It is reported that after 

Queen Mary was executed her body 

was covered by her billiard table 

cover. 

In the 18th century captain 

Minguard, an Infantry Officer in the 

French army, was credited with 

the invention of the leather cue 

tip whilst being held prisoner for 

“political outspokedness”. 

Carbonated lime, blackboard 

chalk, was rubbed on the end of the 

cue to increase friction. The “chalk” 

used now is made of fi ne abrasives 

and doesn’t contain chalk at all. By 

1835 slabs of slate were used on 

the bed which forms the playing 

surface (a full-sized table requires 

five slabs). Ten years later, around 

1845, the invention of vulcanised 

rubber meant it could be utilised on 

the rails to form cushions. 

Around 1870 billiards was popular 

with the British Army. Sir Neville 

Chamberlain, then a serving offi cer 

in the army, devised a game which 

combined the rules of similar 

games. He called it after the military 

term for inexperienced or fi rst year 

personnel: Snooker. 

The cloth now used on snooker 

tables is not baize, as is generally 

supposed. Baize is used in 

furnishing, lining drawers and on 

card tables etc. The cloth on 

snooker tables, woollen worsted, 

is far superior and seems to 

improve year by year. 

This cloth generates less 

friction, allowing the balls to 

travel further on the table. It 

gives players better control of 

their shot; such as back spin or 

screw, top spin, and side spin. 

Snooker became extremely 

popular after 1969 when David 

Attenborough commissioned ‘Pot 



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Baize at St Chad’s 

Black’ to demonstrate the potential 

of colour television. Interest 

increased when in 1978 the World 

Snooker Championship was first 

televised in full, it having been 

fi rst played at Sheffield’s Crucible 

Theatre the year before. Nowadays 

there are many professional 

tournaments internationally and the 

Chinese have entered the game in 

a big way producing their own very 

proficient players. 

Although pool is very popular, 

many amateurs still like a game 

of snooker and there are many 

clubs throughout Sheffield, one 

being at St Chad’s Church House 

where I enjoy playing. St Chad’s is 

a member of the Church League of 

Snooker Players and we are happy 

to say we have won the League 

Cup in previous years. 

The table is full sized and situated 

on the fi rst fl oor (heaven knows how 

they got it up there). 

We always welcome players and 

would be pleased to hear from 

anyone who would like to join us. To 

find out more leave a message for 

me at the church offi ce by calling 

0114 274 5086. 

Dave Harris 



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Services at St Chad’s 

Sunday Services 

Sunday 

Sunday 

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Services 

Sunday Services 

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Weekday 

Weekday 

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Services 

Weekday Services 

Weekday Services 

Morning Prayers 



Morning Prayer 

Evening Prayers 



Monday to Thursday at 9am 



• Monday to Thursday at 9am - a half-hour service 

of prayer and Bible readings in church 

Monday to Thursday at 5pm 

• Monday Friday at to 9am Thursday - up to at an 5pm hour of prayer, blessing 

for Monday the community to Thursday and at prayer 5pm ministry if requested 

The Thursday 10am Service 

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Other Services 

Prayer and Praise 

Prayer Prayer and and Praise 

Sunday, February 13 at 7.30pm 

Sunday, 

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The Natural Beauty of O 

Did you know we have an Urban 

Nature Park in our area? In 

fact it is the largest in Sheffi eld, 

created by the council 

some three to four 

years ago from the remains 

of the abandoned council 

tree and shrub nursery. 

It can be found on 

Beauchief Drive on the 

right hand side beyond 

Beauchief Abbey but 

before Beauchief Hall. 

The Nature Park now 

consists of approximately 

60 allotments, a wildfl ower 

meadow, community orchard, three 

ponds, a council wood store and a 

large area of woodland. A footpath has 

been created round the whole site, half 

of which is surfaced and suitable for 

wheelchairs. 

The council provided the allotments, 

all securely fenced, a surfaced car park 

and funding for the orchard and path 

surfacing. The ponds were sponsored 

by the charity Pondlife. 

Beauchief Environment Group 

has been involved from the start by 

establishing the wildfl ower meadow, 

planting and maintaining the orchard 

and creating footpaths. Most recently 

the group planted an area of scrubland 

with about 100 native tree 

saplings. 

The Environment Group 

is a long-established local 

organisation of volunteers 

who manage the wildlife 

habitats of Beauchief, 

Greenhill and Bradway 

with the guidance and 

permission of council 

experts. We have 

welcomed the chance to use 

our expertise in the Nature Park. 

The meadow was created from 

what could be described as wasteland 

by clearing rubbish, rocks and stones 

and digging out brambles. It was then 

harrowed and wildfl ower seed sown to 

produce a profusion of summer fl owers 

including corn marigold, poppy, corn 

cockle and cornfl ower to name but a 

few. 

The meadow was mown in autumn 

and the grass cleared in normal farming 

practice; a quantity of seed being saved 

for use on other sites. Now in its third 

year the perenials such as yarrow, 



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the fl owers alone in June, July, and 

August. 

The orchard has been planted over a 

two-year period with some 60 trees in 

place. The fruits include apples, pears, 

plums, cherries and nuts. All the trees 

were staked to allow them to become 

established but the area requires to be 

mown just like any orchard. So far the 

fruit has been small and sparse, which 

is to be expected, but watch this space 

in future years. 

The Environment Group created 

a wheelchair-friendly path round the 

south side last year and this winter 

completed the circle with a footpath on 

the north side through meadow and 

thick woodland. 

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always available for walkers. 

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100 Years On 

Sunday November 11 

will mark the 100th 

anniversary of the 

signing of the armistice 

that brought to an end 

the fi ghting of the First World 

War. At St Chad’s we will be 

remembering and honouring 

those from Woodseats who died 

during that confl ict. 

If you have any information, 

photographs, memorabilia, 

relating to any of the men on 

our war memorial we would love 

you to get in touch. 

Our November Impact 

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On December 13 the new 

Bishop of Sheffield Rt 

Rev Pete Wilcox led 

a service at St James’ 

Norton in which the 

churches of St James’, St Chad’s, 

St Paul’s Norton Lees and St 

Peter’s Greenhill pledged to work 

together for the good of God’s 

kingdom across the S8 district. 

As a recognition of this the four 

vicars (Geoffrey White, Toby Hole, 

Murray Brown and Ned Lunn) 

were all licensed to one another’s 

churches. 

We are also really fortunate 

to have a new member of staff 

working for us, Jo Edwards, 

who is our Mission Partnership 

Development Worker. She will 

be based in St Chad’s parish 

office but will be working for 

all four churches helpfully coordinating 

them and their vicars 

and providing us with well needed 

administrative support. 

This ‘Mission Partnership’ has 

been in the pipeline for a few 

years. It has come about as a 

recognition that church life can 

no longer be a case of one vicar 

doing everything (and, in fairness, 

this has thankfully never been the 

case at St Chad’s!) but that all of 

God’s people have a role in telling 

and showing others what God’s 

love means and looks like. 

We already have a number 

of people in our churches who, 

although not vicars, have been 

licensed by the Bishop to preach, 

take services, visit the sick and do 

many of the things that once were 

the preserve of men in dog collars. 

As our Mission Partnership 

develops so we are hoping for 

more people who feel called to 

serve in this way. 

This has been described to me 

as a bit like a maypole – different 

coloured strands being woven into 

a pattern without losing their own 

unique identity. 

The four churches of Norton, 

Woodseats, Norton Lees and 

Greenhill are all quite different 

and will remain different, but as 

we work more closely together 

we hope that our difference will 

form a pattern that will bless our 

communities and be more effective 

in bringing the good news of Jesus 

to those around us. 

Rev Toby Hole 

Working Together in S8 

The Bishop of Sheffield Rt Rev Pete Wilcox with Revs Geoffrey White, 

Toby Hole, Ned Lunn and Murray Brown, and Mission Partnership 

Development Worker Jo Edwards. 



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The Green Man 

Half hidden in the walls of 

many old churches can be 

found a strange fi gure, a 

face surrounded by leaves. 

We call him the Green 

Man, though his original name (if 

he ever had one) is lost in the mists 

of time. He can be found in most 

of our cathedrals, hiding beneath 

a misericord or gazing down at us 

from the choir roof. Green Men do 

not appear in England until the 12th 

Century but they were around in 

Imperial Rome more than 400 years 

before Christ. 

Who is he? What was his original 

meaning? Why is he usually found 

in churches? Nobody knows, 

though many have tried to guess. 

Some say he is The Lord of the 

Greenwood and have linked him 

to Robin Hood, though the only 

connection I myself can see is 

that Robin wore a tunic of Lincoln 

Green. Woods were unsafe places 

in medieval times, thought to be 

populated by fairies and demons. 

If the Green Man were to be a 

guardian of the forest, I would 

like to think of him more as Tom 

Bombadil from Tolkein’s Lord of the 

Rings than Robin Hood. 

Because he is sometimes 

portrayed with horns, some have 

been led to believe he is the 

Devil or a Forest Demon; while 

others think the horns belong to 

the classical god Pan. Indeed, in 

Worcester Cathedral, there is a 

Green Man with horns and pointy 

ears, which some locals think 

depicts Pan. But, as we only see 

the heads of Green Men, we shall 

never know if he has furry legs and 

cloven hooves. 

Green Men with branches 

sprouting from their eyes appeared 

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instead, new and horrific versions took 

their place. Many of the heads are 

obviously dead and the tendrils sprouting 

from their eyes, nose and mouth could 

be worms as easily as branches. Or 

they could be the roots of a churchyard 

yew which were said to extend into 

the mouth of every sleeper in the 

graves. Many of the most horrific 

depictions can be found in 

the West Country where the 

Black Death first came ashore. 

Stories of a tree or flower 

growing from a corpse are 

very old. The dark growth of 

a churchyard yew or ivy remind 

us of death but also of regrowth 

and resurrection. In one early Christian 

legend, the tree from which the true cross 

was made grew originally from the grave 

of Adam. 

Many writers and illustrators have 

portrayed the Green Man as something 

ancient, pagan and magical. Arthur 

Racham’s illustrations give a glimpse into 

forests of crooked, watchful trees whose 

haunting images perhaps inspired a new 

generation to think of trees, not just as 

a source of timber, but more as living 

beings. JRR Tolkein, in The Lord of the 

Rings, takes us into a world where old 

and powerful Ents, half way between man 

and trees, lead lives of quiet wisdom, 

watching the eternal cycle of birth, 

flowering, death and renewal, 

over thousands of years. This 

same cycle is written of in the 

last chapter of Ecclesiastes: 

“Remember now thy Creator 

in the days of thy youth ... while 

the sun or the light or the moon or 

the stars be not darkened.” 

In the end, the spirit is returned unto 

God who gave it – returned to its starting 

point of sun, moon and stars that are not 

darkened. So, perhaps that is what the 

Green Man truly signifies – the endless 

cycle of life: Birth, Flowering, Death and 

Rebirth? 

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Green’ 

Services at St Chad’s 

The Green of the Bible 

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is important in 

the Holy Land. With 

no rain between April 

and November, the 

countryside is largely 

brown for much of the year. In 

the 1980s I travelled through the 

dry Negev (southern Israel) and 

was surprised to see miles of 

polytunnels, rows of fruit trees, 

plantations of palms and prolific 

vineyards. The desert was 

becoming green. Another 

year I took a leisurely 

camel ride in 

the Sinai amid 

wind-chiselled 

sandstone 

rocks and 

sandy wadis. 

It was hot 

and dusty. I 

couldn’t wait 

to get to the 

lush, green 

oasis ahead 

beckoning us. 

The colour 

green is used in 

two interesting ways 

throughout the Bible: 

1. To show the brevity of 

life contrasted with God’s 

permanence. 

The psalmist says, “As for 

man, his days are like grass. 

As a flower of the field so he 

flourishes.” 

Peter writes similarly, “All men 

are like grass and all their glory 

is like the flowers of the field. The 

grass withers and the flowers fall, 

but the word of the Lord stands 

for ever.” 

Last year I arrived in Israel 

in April hoping to film the 

countryside in a blaze of green, 

but I was too late. There was 

hardly any grass left on the 

hillsides. Our lives, too, are 

shortlived and we need to 

prepare for meeting our Maker 

while there’s time. 

2. To show how to stay ‘fresh’ all 

year round. 

The secret is, of course, to 

have a constant water supply. 

The person who chooses to 

go God’s way and delights to 

please him is “like a tree planted 

by streams of water, which 

yields its fruit in season 

and whose leaf 

does not wither.” 

Jeremiah states, 

“Blessed is 

the man who 

trusts in the 

Lord…he will 

be like a tree 

planted by 

the waters… 

Its leaves 

are always 

green. It has no 

worries in a year 

of drought and never 

fails to bear fruit.” When 

life dries up all around you, 

where do you get your resources 

from? 

One final thought. Creation 

starts in a garden with the Tree of 

Life and it ends in a garden where 

the same tree bears 12 crops of 

fruit, one every month – a picture 

of constant supply, freshness and 

vitality. In Scripture, heaven is 

called Paradise three times. It’s a 

Persian word meaning a walled 

garden. Surrounded by desert, it’s 

a haven of tranquility, fragrance 

and beauty. 

I wonder, are you enjoying 

the ‘green’ of God’s ever-fresh 

Kingdom now and then forever? 

Jeremy Thornton 



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Protecting God’s World 

Have you heard of A Rocha? 

No, I hadn’t until a month 

or so ago, but what an 

amazing organisation it 

is. A Rocha, ‘the rock’ in 

Portuguese, is a charity founded 

in 1983 in Portugal by Anglican 

minister Peter Harris. 

The world in which we live is 

changing fast. Climate change 

and pollution are two major 

areas of concern facing us all 

today, but there are many other 

environmental issues with which to 

contend. A Rocha dedicates itself 

to addressing these issues in its 

own way. The organisation states: 

“If everyone waits for someone else 

to act, nothing will change. Our 

aim is to help you to do something 

practical as an individual, living 

in your community, perhaps as a 

member of a local church and as 

part of the global community.” 

Their fi ve core commitments 

are: Christian – protecting a 

world which God made, loves and 

entrusts to our care; Conservation 

– researching to restore the 

natural world and run educational 

programmes for people of all ages; 

Community – developing good 

relationships within A Rocha and 

local communities; Cross Cultural – 

drawing on the insights and skills of 

people from diverse cultures, both 

locally and around the world; Cooperation 

– working in partnership 

with a wide variety of organisations 

and individuals who share their 

concerns for a sustainable world. 

A Rocha has a phenomenal track 

record of success stories all over 

the world – reducing confl ict in 

India between humans and wildlife; 

mapping tropical forests; improving 

the habitat for rare species of 

birds in New Zealand and Ghana; 

training community volunteers 

in Uganda to install water fi lters, 

enlarging national parks in parts of 

Africa, and so on. 

There’s a most successful project 

in our own country, too, not very far 

away – the Lea Brook Valley Project 

in Dronfi eld. It was begun in 2005 

by a small group of volunteers who 

wanted to make a difference to an 

area where they lived. An enormous 

amount of hard work, together with 

a wonderful community spirit, has 

transformed an unused, rubbishfi 

lled space into a delightful green 

area much enjoyed by people and 

wildlife alike. Lea Brook Valley 

is the best place in Derbyshire 

to see the purple autumn crocus 

and there are now more than 127 

species of wild fl owers there. It’s 

possible to see at least 85 species 

of birds (of whom 45 of these 

species are nesting) three species 

of dragonfl y, eight species of 

butterfl y and fi ve mammal species 

too. Water pollution has been 

reduced and funding was received 

from Yorkshire Water to help 

develop a sustainable wetland area, 

whilst at the same time reducing 

the effects of surface fl ooding in the 

area. This scheme is being hailed 

as the fl agship for water companies 

and fl ood authorities across the UK. 

The Living Waters Project 

shows how large organisations 

can engage with local community 

groups. The Lea Brook Valley 

aspires to involve local schools and 

organisations – these relationships 

are currently in development. 

Chris Laude 



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Paddington 2 

by Anna Wilson 

If you have read or watched 

Paddington 1 you would be 

silly not to read this exciting 

sequel. Just when you 

thought Paddington couldn’t 

get into and more mischief and 

adventures, hold on to your 

marmalade sandwiches, we’re 

going in for more! 

Now a fully-fl edged member of 

the Brown family, Paddington is 

popular with everyone in the local 

community, although Mr Curry is 

still a little wary! 

Aunt Lucy is turning 100 very 

soon so Paddington wants to 

buy her a birthday gift. It needs 

to be something special and so 

he embarks on a quest to get a 

job and earn some money. As 

you can imagine this doesn’t 

quite go as planned. He fi nds that 

special gift only for it to be stolen. 

Paddington chases after the thief 

and ends up in a bit of a sticky 

situation. 

As the story unfolds you fi nd 

yourself laughing but in the next 

sentence feeling sad. It wouldn’t 

be right if the story didn’t have 

a happy ending, true to form, 

Paddington wins over everybody 

he meets and ends up being the 

one who is treated to a special 

gift. 

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this book, it’s for everyone. Let’s 

hope there is a Paddington 3! 

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Registers 2018 

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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 

planning the Big Day or saying goodbye 

to a loved one. 

For weddings please contact St Chad’s 

church offi ce. For funerals please tell 

your funeral director that you would like 

to have a church service. 

Baptism 

January 

8 Freddie Liversidge 

Thanksgiving 

February 

11 Emelia Cargill 

Funerals 

January 

9 Isabelle Cross (98) 

22 Ken Randall (82) 

February 

7 Marian Gear (100) 

21 Hilda Pocklington (97) 

• If you have had a new baby and would 

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 274 5086 if you are interested in 

attending. 

St Chad’s Church has two 

rooms available for hire at 

56 Abbey Lane 

Healing Rooms 

at the Big Tree Pub 

Wednesday mornings 

10.30-12.00 

1st & 3rd Wednesday evenings 

7.45- 9.00 

As part of an international 

Christian organisation, we seek 

to freely serve the local 

community in prayer for the sick. 

www.woodseatshealingrooms.org 

Tel. 0114 3600616 (answerphone) 



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Contacts 


CHURCH OFFICE 274 5086 

Linden Avenue, S8 0GA 


If you want to contact the church offi ce and there is no one available, please leave a 

message or send an email and we will get back to you as soon as possible. 

Vicar Toby Hole (Vicarage) 274 9302 

email: toby@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 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 

Uniformed Groups 

Group Scout Leader Ian Jackson 235 3044 

Guide Leader Jemma Taylor 296 0555 

CHURCH HOUSE 

56 Abbey Lane 

Bookings Church Offi ce 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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