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September 2023 September 2023
PARISH AND BENEFICE NEWS
CHURCH AND VILLAGE

What’s coming up in the parishes… ACTIVITIES, SOCIETIES, CLUBS, ASSOCIATIONS and CONTACTS

Ride and Stride – Saturday 9 September
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The annual fund raiser for the Dorset Churches Historical Trust takes place on the Association Contact Tel Address E-mail Meetings/Info
Second Saturday in September. You can join in by being sponsored as you walk,
cycle or ride between different churches or sponsor someone, half the money
raised comes back to your local church. There are details elsewhere in this Bere Regis Scout Liz Teather 01929 lizteather@hot Wednesdays 6 - 7 pm
471216
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Group (Beavers)
5¾ - 8 years
magazine of the contacts for Bere Regis and Affpuddle. Please support this Scout Hut, Elder Road
important day, both churches will be asking for grants from the Historic Churches
Trust in the future. Bere Regis Scout Neal Unitt- 07952 scout.troop.brs Mondays 6.30 - 8.30 pm
Group (Scouts) Jones 023882 g@gmail.com 10½ to 14 years
Scout Hut, Elder Road
Sunday 10 September Education Sunday – Bere Regis Family Service General or group Chris Gall 0789634 chrisgall60@ya
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enquiries 7957 hoo.co.uk
The theme for this month’s Junior Church and Family Service will be Education as
the church celebrates Education Sunday on 10 September. There will be all the Bere Regis Scout Emma Menzies 0746444 emma.menzies Thursdays 6.30 - 8 pm
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usual parts of this family friendly service, puppets, action songs, drama, hymns Group (Cubs) 9191 10@yahoo.co 8– 10½ or 11 years
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and prayers with refreshments afterwards. Children and families are encouraged Scout Hut, Elder Road
to come from 10am for activities related to the theme and some practice for the
service. Kingsbere Explorer Helen Unitt- 01929 Tuesdays 7.00 pm-9.00 pm.
14-18 years, male and
Jones
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Scout Unit
female. Scout Hut, Elder
Road
Gift Day, Affpuddle Church
Briantspuddle Book Angie Talbot 472483 19 Bladen Valley angie@pbtalb 2nd Saturday 10 - 12 noon
Saturday 16 September between 2pm and 4pm at Cruck Cottage in Let ot.plus.com Briantspuddle Village Hall,
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Briantspuddle. Come and enjoy tea and cake and leave a gift for church in conjunction with Coffee
Shop
expenses if you wish. With grateful thanks to Chips for the use of her lovely front Chapel Toddlers Suzie Gee 472484 Rose Cottage, Butt suziegtitus3v4@ Wednesdays - 9.30 a.m. -
garden. If it’s very wet, we’ll be in the Village Hall! Group Land talktalk.net 11.30 a.m. at the
Congregational Chapel,
Butt Lane
Continuing…Thursday Tea and Toast – St John the Baptist Church, 8am- Village Hall Joanna Syrett 472037
11am, WEEKLY (hire) Joanna.syrett@
tiscali.co.uk
A drop in Café runs for a couple of hours on a Thursday morning in church, with Dorset Councillor Peter Wharf 472246 The Old Vicarage peterwharf@ho
the purchase of a couple of potable radiators it is more of a Warm Space than it West Street tmail.com
was before! Designed as a place to drop in on the way to or from dropping off at
school, or perhaps on your way to or from the shop for the morning paper and Kingsbere Quilters Mrs Diane 472331 10 Boswell’s Close edmonds473@ Monthly Scout Hut
milk, or out with the dog(s), a place to have a chat over tea (other drinks are Edmonds BH20 7JE btinternet.com 1st Wednesday 9.30 am -
available) and scrumptious toast and biscuits for our four-legged friends. All ages 12.30p.m.
are welcome, there are toddler age toys available. A big thank you to all our Bere Regis Swimming Alan White 0756218 48 Cowslip Road, anworcas@gm 5.15 p.m.—7.00 p.m. at the
volunteers. club 7100 Broadstone, BH18 ail.com Purbeck Leisure Centre,
9QZ Wareham
For more information, please contact Pat Wharf – patswiftwharf@outlook.com
01929 472246. Bere Regis Wildlife Tony Bates 471563 The Beeches, Barrow tonybates19@g Meetings arranged as and
when
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Mike Gee 07759 mike.n.g@outlo
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