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Contents
3 Church News
4 School Speak
6 Swaffham Jazz Club
9 Garden Club/Royal British Legion
10 WEA/Community Hospital
13 Museum Matters
14 Swaffham Lions/Camera Club
15 WI's
17 Merle Boddy
18 Swaffham Men's Shed
19 WEA/Swaffham History Group
20 The Magpie Centre/Wissey U3A
22 Swaffham Town Council
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Parish Church of St Peter & St Paul
The December 2021 services in Swaffham parish church
will be as follows:
Sunday 5th
9.30am Sung Eucharist
Sunday 12th
9.30am Sung Eucharist
2.30pm St John Ambulance carol
service and awards
Sunday 19th
9.30am Sung Eucharist
6.00pm Carol Service
Friday 24th
CHRISTMAS EVE
4pm Christingle
11.30pm Midnight Mass
Saturday 25th CHRISTMAS DAY
10am Parish Eucharist
Sunday 26th
9.30am Said Holy Communion
There will also be a Book of Common Prayer traditional
language Holy Communion on Wednesdays at 10 am.
Church is now open again daily for private prayer and
for visitors from 9am until 3pm outside services.
We are seeking to restart our Saturday coffee
mornings, so do look out for updated information on
our webpage https://www.swaffhamparishchurch.
org/ or Facebook (Swaffham Parish Church). Although
we are not able to run our normal festival, we will have
some charity Christmas trees in church 30th November
- 5th December inclusive - no cash collection but with
options for online giving available.
Our Fabric Officer, Jan Hayes-Griffin, who coordinates
the work on the church building on behalf of the
parochial church council, writes:
"Over the last few months, we have been carrying out
essential repairs and maintenance to the church as we
begin to open up after the pandemic. The stonework
and glazing to the last green window on the south side
of the Church has been completed and inscriptions
to two generous donors installed. The Church is now
beautifully floodlit at night following the installation
of new floodlights and four lights right at the top of
the Fleche. Repairs and cleaning to the Bell Tower will
enable our bells and bell ringers can continue to peal
out across the town. Our band of volunteers continue to
polish and clean the Church every week and our flower
arrangers provide lovely seasonal displays.
All this work helps to ensure our magnificent church is
kept open for the community and visitors to enjoy and
host our exciting programme of events in the run up to
Christmas."
Please come in and visit - we are open 10am to 3pm
most days - you will be made very welcome
Mothers’ Union
The Swaffham branch of the Mothers’ Union usually
meets on the 2nd Thursday of the month. This month’s
meeting is on December 9th at 10.00am for carols and
a shared lunch. Enquiries to Julia on 720041.