Please mark your diaries for the Chapel Project ChristmasFair. Join us at The Chapel on Wharf Rd, Ash Vale, GU12 5AY on Saturday25th Nov2-5pm
It looks like a wonderfully festive day for the community. Why not visit the Ash Fantasia event in the village from 12, and then come over to us from 2pm for even more festive fun and Christmas bargains! Nearly New, cakes and biscuits, gifts and games, amazing raffle, children’s society stall, hotdogs for tea and a free Christmas craft for the kids. Please pop in and support your local Chapel Project. See you there!
Would you like to join in and volunteer, or donate a raffle prize? Please do get in touch! 07730 609446 Facebook: @AshValeChapel
Christmas Appeal: The Ash Villages Food Parcels project will be packing and delivering food parcels for (we estimate) 40-50 families in Ash, Ash Vale, Ash Green and Tongham in the week before Christmas, and we like to send gifts for the children and Christmassy treats along with the emergency essentials if we can. Can you help? Anything our wonderful community can donate will be amazing, and add some lovely Christmas cheer to the parcels. We will share out whatever is received from the community between the families on our list on the day.
Need some inspiration? How about donating Christmas puddings, custard, mince pies, treats, crackers, nibbles, stuffing mix, gravy granules, cranberry sauce, sweets, nice toiletries, warm socks, gloves, tangerines, chocolate coins, children’s toys, board games, juice, squash, hot chocolate, pretty napkins… what ever you would you be pleased to receive if you were in need yourself. (We can’t take alcohol sorry!)
Dropping off donations: All items need to reach us at St Mary’s church (GU12 5JE) or at The Chapel (GU12 5AY) by Thursday 14th December please. Contact us if you need to book a time 07730 609446 or you can pop in to donate whenever we are open.
Did you hear Jackie on Radio Surrey this morning (Sunday 29 Oct) at 7:12? If you’re interested in help with your hearing aids you can get in touch here:
Hear here – the hearing aid clinic. 07774 742143 – it is a dedicated number for the St Mary’s hear here clinic and hall hire.
Hear here clinic email is HearHere.AshVale@ash-vale.org.uk
The clinics run once a month on Fridays. Contact Jackie for more details.
It’s October! The annual Love and Light Party will be on 31st October as always. It’s on a Tuesday this year, after school at 4-6pm at The Chapel on Wharf Road GU12 5AY. If you would like to join us you are very welcome! Text or phone or WhatsApp to book your places please asap so we can be sure to cater! 07730 609446
What’s happening? Join us from 4pm onwards for snacks, crafts and games, Martin will start the disco at 4:30pm, and we will have sparklers at 5pm if the weather permits. Hotdogs and s’mores for tea, and a party bag to take home if you book in advance. Book today! 07730 609446.
What does it cost? We don’t exclude anyone based on their finances. We do ask for donations please – give what you can, to help cover the costs of the event. Some people can afford more than others, and every penny counts. Thank you! https://givealittle.co/campaigns/0e5ae7c4-ccad-4f64-806f-0bdda20b8876
Can we dress up? Yes of course! Nothing too scary please, as there will be little ones about. We have some UV lights for the disco so wear something neon if you want to glow up! You do you – come as you are or dress up as whatever you like.
Volunteers are always needed please for setting up / serving drinks and food / prepping party bags / helping out / welcoming / clearing down. Text or phone us if you can help, or speak to Alex when you see her. Thank you!
The local Food Parcels team would like to say a big Harvest Festival *THANK YOU* to everyone at St Mary’s church, and everyone who dropped off their wonderful food donations for the harvest collection there. This amazing generosity is what helps the project to keep going and enables us to keep helping families in need. These donations are a big blessing.
Thanks to Revd Neil Lambert, these lovely tins and packets, toiletries and treats have now been packed, collected and transported, and are now safely on the shelves at the #AshVillagesFoodParcelsProject and will go out in the food parcels in the next week or two. Thank you all so much for your support! It really matters, and every tin makes a difference.
The Ash Villages Food Parcels Project would like to say an enormous THANK YOU to all the pupils, staff and families at Puttenham Infant School. Your wonderful Harvest donations are a huge blessing and will be a great help to local families in the coming weeks. Look at these shelves in the photo – what a lot of lovely food you have donated!
The team were very busy on Wednesday putting everything away, ready for the next set of parcels which will be going out on Friday morning. By this time next week your tins and packets, pasta and sauces, beans and spaghetti hoops, and all the goodies you sent will be on their way to our neighbours in need in our local villages. Thank you so much, what an amazing way to celebrate Harvest Festiveal.
We wish you a super term full of blessings, and thank you again for all your generous gifts.
From all of us at The Chapel and Ash Villages Food Parcels Project
We would like to say a very big thank you to everyone at Frimley Green Methodist Church this week. We were delighted to receive a wonderful delivery of amazing Harvest Festival donations for the Ash Villages Food Parcels Project today. What a great way to show love for our neighbours and celebrate our blessings. This week’s parcels will be extra special with beautiful fresh fruit and veg, bread and store cupboard items.
THANK YOU!
With our very best wishes from everyone at The Chapel and the Ash Villages Food Parcels Project.
We were delighted to receive the amazing harvest donations from Wyke Primary Academy this week. Huge thanks to all the students, families and staff at the school. It was amazing to see all the donations arrive, and we could see that a lot of thought that went into what everyone donated.
We will be delivering food parcels to lots of local families this week with your donations in them. How wonderful that your generosity is helping people who live nearby. It’s a great way to be good neighbours and make sure that no one in our community goes hungry.
Best wishes and heartfelt thanks to you all from all of us at the Ash Villages Food Parcels Project.
Huge thanks to everyone who joined in with our ‘special edition’ of Friday Community Cafe this week at St Mary’s, a fundraising coffee morning for Macmillan. We had some amazing cakes, raffle prizes and donations, you are all amazing! !
We have raised £380 and counting! This is 5 times what we raised last year, a massive thank you to everyone. You can click on the link to see the latest total on our fundraising page. We have smashed our target, thank you all so much! This all makes a difference and helps Macmillan to keep on supporting those who need it.
Congratulations to all the raffle winners and thank you to our lovely local Co-op for donating the top prize, the hamper of delicious co-op goodies! Guess the weight of the cake was tricky! The correct answer was 837g (1lb 14oz) well done Andy who guessed the nearest!
We loved seeing you all for a cuppa and a catch-up, and the home made cakes were absolutely delicious! Remember we are here every Friday 10:00-13:00 for cuppa, chat and toasties at 12. Come again soon!
The Children’s Society has been around for 142 years, and we would like you to come and join us to celebrate this wonderful charity by taking you through its journey through the decades, through drama, music and dance, on 21st October 2023.
There will be drinks on arrival at 6:30pm followed by performances at 6:45pm from some talented children and young people, including a Youth Jazz Trio. There will be a family disco, raffle and a disco later on in the evening for the adults as well. Food will be provided but please Bring your Own Bottle.
The Family Disco will be straight after the performances in the hall for those who need to take their younger children home earlier in the evening (please could parents stay with their children throughout the evening).
So dig out your dancing shoes, listen to the mellow sounds of the Golden Age Jazz Trio, boogie away in the disco, and hear about The Children’s Society as well. The proceeds of the evening will go to The Children’s Society, a charity which supports and campaigns for vulnerable children and young people across the United Kingdom.
Tickets (includes food)
£12 Adult
£5 Child (5-17)
Book your tickets today by contacting Karen via the parish office
