Christmas Chill-out at At The Chapel Saturday 29th Nov 2:30-4:30pm The Chapel, Wharf Rd, GU12 5AY
Pop in and join us for Christmas Craft Activities, Hot Chocolate bar, Christmas Bakes, and some fundraising fun for The Chapel and Foodbank. Try your luck with the Golden Bucket, guess the weight of the Christmas Food Hamper, have a go at Christmas Card Stamping and Make a Lantern for the St Nicholas event on 6th December. Hotdogs for tea, before you go to see Santa switch the lights on in the village. Why not visit Ash Fantasia too, before you come to us? Don’t miss it, come and support The Chapel! https://www.ashvalechapel.comFacebook @AshValeChapel
Our local Food Bank for Ash, Ash Vale, Tongham and Ash Green is appealing for Christmas Hamper items, toys and winter warmers for local families this Christmas. #AshVillagesFoodParcelsProject
Not everyone will be in a position to help this year, but if you can, we will be very thankful. Donations can be dropped off on or before Sunday 14th December at St Mary’s Church Vale Rd on Tuesdays, Fridays and Sundays 10:00-12:00 or at The Chapel on Wharf Rd on Mondays and Wednesdays 9:00-1400, or other times by arrangement (please contact 07730609446) THANK YOU!
Ideas for things to donate? Hot water bottles, warm socks, blankets, new or good as new childrens toys (no cuddly toys please), sweets and treats, cranberry sauce, mince pies, biscuits, Christmas cake, crackers, Christmas pudding, custard, chocolates, seasonal fruit and veg, gravy granules, christmas activity books, board games, festive toiletries… think about what makes your Christmas special – let’s share some of that Christmas joy! Thank you for your support.
^Donations Link.Thank you for your supportfor local people in need this Christmas.
The Ash Villages Food Parcels Project is a joint project between the Ash Villages Support Circle and St Mary’s Church in Ash Vale, hosted at The Chapel Project, Ash Vale.
Bridges are giving away funding to local charities, but we need your votes please! This will be a huge help with keeping all our projects going (We co-manage the local Food Parcels Project, Community Cafe, Chapel Cafe, 2 Toddler Groups and lots of community events at St Mary’s and The Chapel). Please everyone vote for St Mary’s, as we co-fund / co-run the Chapel Project as well, so a vote for St Mary’s is a vote for The Chapel Project too.
Thank you for your support!
Please vote today!
St Marys Church Ash Vale
Charity Number 1152717
Address is St Mary’s Church, Vale Road, Ash Vale, GU12 5JE.
The Mayor of Guildford’s Christmas Charity Concert is on Sunday, 14 December 2025, 7pm, at Holy Trinity Church, Guildford. This popular charity carol concert will include a mixture of traditional and contemporary carols sung by Vivace Chorus along with your favourite audience participation carols.
The local Food Parcels Project for Ash, Ash Vale, Tongham and Ash Green is appealing for Christmas Hamper items, toys and winter warmers for local families this Christmas.
Not everyone will be in a position to help this year, but if you can, we will be very thankful. Donations can be dropped off on or before Sunday 14th December at St Mary’s Church Vale Rd on Tuesdays, Fridays and Sundays 9:30-12:30 or at The Chapel Wharf Rd on Wednesdays 9:00-14:00 or at other times by arrangement (please text 07730609446) THANK YOU!
Ideas for things to donate? Hot water bottles, warm socks, fluffy scarves, childrens toys, sweets and treats, cranberry sauce, mince pies, festive biscuits, Christmas cake, crackers, Christmas pudding, custard, evaporated milk, stuffing mix, gravy granules, chocolates, seasonal fruit and veg, tinned ham, christmas activity books, board games, crisps, festive toiletries… think about what makes your Christmas special – let’s share some of that Christmas joy!
The need is greater than ever this year, and we are likely to need parcels for over 100 families. We need your support please, to be able to help them all, and bring some wonderful festive cheer to every family in need.
If you like, you can download the ‘Bank the food’ App which lists suggestions and shows what items are most urgently needed. It’s a great way to keep in touch. You will find us listed as the Ash Villages Food Parcels Project.
Thank you everyone for your amazing help to make this happen. We can’t do it without you!
Thank you for your support, and may you be wonderfully blessed this Christmas.
A huge HARVEST THANK YOU to all at St Mary’s Ash Vale, for the wonderful foodbank donations from the Harvest Festival on Sunday.
We collected your gifts on Tuesday and they went out in the food parcels today, with some items left for the parcels on Friday. The Wednesday team fed 22 families with your generous donations today, some large families, some single people in need, food for 61 people in total. And more parcels will go out on Friday to other families too.
Thank you for your support! #AshVillagesFoodParcelsProject
Our web page has more info here: https://ash-vale.org.uk/foodparcels-2/
Harvest Festival is a wonderful service where we give thanks to God for all our blessings, the wonderful world He created, and the amazing crops harvested at this time of year. Please join us on Sunday 28th September 10:30am and see what it’s all about! All are welcome, whether you’re a regular or a first time church go-er!
One of the things we do to celebrate and give thanks, is to bring donations of food and produce. This year we are once again donating to the Ash Villages Food Parcels Project (local foodbank for Ash, Ash Vale, Ash Green and Tongham), which we run in partnership with the Ash Villages Support Circle and the Chapel Project. Whether you come to our service or not, you can donate for this wonderful cause! We have a box for donations in the foyer, or you can bring donations to the service, or donate funds online using our Give a Little link. https://givealittle.co/c/3ijYS6zC4gbOGqwer2tmdY
What food to donate? Anything in a tin is great, and can be used in the food parcels right away. We use 30-50 tins a week each of things like tomatoes, baked beans, sweetcorn, lentils, tuna, hotdogs, meatballs, chicken curry, soup, rice pudding, fruit, custard, carrots, peas etc. We can also use anything else that has a long shelf life so pasta, rice, cereal, tea, coffee, UHT milk, pasta sauce, even crisps and sweets as a special harvest treat will be appreciated by families. Fresh produce – fruit and veg – is great too, and will go out in the very next round of food parcels (we send parcels out on Wednesdays and Fridays every week.) Or perhaps you might like to put together some “meal packs” pasta and sauce, curry and rice, tinned fruit and custard, noodles and sauce, hotdogs and baked beans – What’s your go-to storecupboard meal? Local families will really appreciate the thought that goes in to these.
What is most needed? If you would like to see the “live list” of what we most urgently need, we are also on the App called “Bank the Food” and we update this every couple of weeks to let our supporters know what we are most short of. https://www.bankthefood.com/ If you download the app, we should be easy to find (Ash Villages Food Parcels Project).
Before you go! We are decorating the church for Harvest Festival on Saturday 27th September. Would you like to donate flowers and produce for the display? Steph and the team would love to welcome you to come and help make the church look beautiful for Harvest Festival.
And finally – don’t forget Macmillan! Our coffee morning is this Friday 26th Sept 2025 10am-1pm, all welcome! Pop in for a quick cuppa and cake, buy Sue’s delicious array of jams and treats to take away, have a flutter on the raffle, or why not stay all morning and catch up with friends old and new over a slice of cake or stay for a cheese toastie or soup lunch.
If you have never been along to a church service before, or haven’t been for ages, and are interested in getting to know Jesus, you are very welcome to come to St Mary’s and explore. Our Sunday services start at 10:30am, and we welcome everyone. Pop in any Sunday, sit wherever you like (we have lots of chairs, or a sofa at the back). After the service we offer prayer in church of you would like somone to pray with you, and we have tea and coffee in the hall if you would like to have a hot drink and a chat. We look forward to welcoming you!
St Mary’s Church, Vale Road, Ash Vale, GU12 5JE Sunday Service 10:30am
Did you come to our Summer Fair on the 6th September? It was great wasnt it! We hope you had as much fun as we did. Thank you to Martin who organised everything, and to all of you who donated, helped, and came to support us on the day. We loved catching up with our lovely communtiy over refreshments, food, stalls and games.
We are delighted to share that the fundraising was a success too! Over £650 was raised overall, with £160 going to the foodbank (Ash Villages Food Parcels Project), and the rest is going towards the cost of our new boiler at St Mary’s, a vital project so we can keep the church and halls open for the whole community every day of the week.
We were also happy to have a Childrens Society stall and a Macmillan stall, and the funds raised on those will go directly to those charities. What a super day, and every penny raised will make a big difference.
Thank you everyone for your support and see you again soon!
PS – As at 10th September we still need to raise another £1,200 to cover the boiler replacement costs. If anyone has not yet donated and would like to do so, or if you can spare a little extra, here is the link for the boiler project. thank you so much!
