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DORSET TRADING STANDARDS
BERE REGIS CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH

Dorset County Council Trading Standards Service check and
approve businesses so you don’t have to. Sundays 10.30am Morning Service taken each week by visiting
preachers.
For more information visit www.buywithconfidence.gov.uk or
call 08454 040506. Mondays at 7pm STS (Search the Scriptures) Youth meeting
To report or seek advice about problems you have Tuesdays at 9.15am (during term time) Chapel Toddlers Group
experienced when dealing with a trader call 08454 040506. Tuesdays at 7.30pm Bible Study and Prayer

News about the new Fundraising Preference Service (FPS) God continues to bless us as a Church, and to encourage us through the
excellent preachers who take the service each Sunday. On May 6 we shall be
th
for communications from charities.
welcoming Mike Berry from the Zambesi Mission. ZM works in Malawi and
If you're fed up Mozambique, and we look forward to hearing how the Christian Church is
with unsolicited growing in these two countries, and to be challenged to see similar growth here.

c alls, texts,
emails and post
from charities The Faith of a Child
a s k i n g f o r This beautiful story was written by a doctor who worked in South Africa
donations, this
new service will let you opt out. The aim of the FPS is to rebuild public trust in “One night I worked hard to help a mother in the labour ward; but in spite of all
fundraising and to introduce more control over how people are approached by we could do the mother died, leaving us with a tiny premature baby and a crying
fundraisers. two year old daughter. We would have difficulty keeping the baby alive as we
had no incubator (we had no electricity to run an incubator). We also had no
Visit the website: https://www.fundraisingpreference.org.uk where you can special feeding facilities.
choose to stop communications from a selected charity. You will need to identify
the charity/ies you no longer want to hear from. The easiest way to do that is to Although we lived on the equator, nights were often chilly with treacherous
use the registered charity’s number, which should be displayed on all their draughts. One student midwife went for the box we had for such babies and the
promotional material. If you cannot find the charity number, you can also search cotton wool the baby would be wrapped up in. Another went to stoke the fire
using the charity’s name. To confirm your request, you will need either an email and fill up a hot water bottle. She came back shortly in distress to tell me that in
address or a mobile telephone number, which will enable a confirmation code to filling the bottle, it had burst (rubber perishes easily in tropical climates). “And it is
be sent to you that you will need to enter later. If you need help to complete the our last hot water bottle!” she exclaimed.
online form, there is a telephone helpline service: call 0300 3033 517.
As in the west it is no good crying over spilt milk, so in Africa it might be considered
You can also register via the same helpline number. no good crying over burst hot water bottles. They do not grow on trees, and
there are no drug stores down forest pathways. “All right”, I said, “put the baby as
You will be asked to provide your name and relevant contact information so that
you can be matched to the charity’s records and the communication can be near to the fire as you safely can, and sleep between the baby and the door to
stopped. Once all details have been provided and the request submitted, the keep it free from draughts. Your job is to keep the baby warm.”
FPS will send an automatic email to the charity/ies, with a 28 day deadline to The following noon, as I did on most days, I went to have prayers with any of the
remove your details from direct marketing lists. You will need to specify every orphanage children who chose to gather with me. I gave the youngsters various
charity you want to block – you won't be able to opt out of all charity contact. suggestions of things to pray about and told them about the tiny baby. I
explained the problem of keeping the baby warm enough, mentioning the hot
For advise on this, or to report something to Trading Standards, call the Citizens water bottle, and that the baby could easily die if it got chilled. I also told them
Advice consumer helpline on 03454 04 05 06.
of the two year old sister, crying because her mother had died.

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