Our Stories
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Baby Basics Doncaster, offering hope to young parents
03 February 2025
Opened in 2021, Baby Basics Doncaster is based in Sprotbrough Methodist Church and provides items to facilitate the first days of a new born. The volunteers liaise with partners to provide clothing and essentials for the babies and their mothers.
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Celebrating the Lunar New Year with Bowthorpe Road Methodist Church
29 January 2025
Bowthorpe Road Methodist Church in Norwich is getting ready to celebrate the Lunar New Year with its local community, an occasion for the Chinese members to share their culture with the Norvicians.
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Celebrating 60 years of the United Church of Zambia
28 January 2025
On 16 January, the United Church of Zambia, one of the Methodist Church in Britain’s African partner churches, celebrated the 60th Anniversary of its’ founding. The Revd Richard Andrew, the President Designate of the Methodist Conference, was invited to preach at this special service marking a historic moment for the Church in Central Africa.
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How pioneering built a Christian community in Horrabridge
27 January 2025
In the South West Peninsula District, Ali and a passionate team of local volunteers are building a Christian community around love, care and answering the needs of the people in the area.
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Open House, a lifeline five days a week in Aberdeen
22 January 2025
Offering a Warm Space with cold and warm food, Open House is a unique initiative in Great Britain, offering warmth and food five days a week.
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One man’s journey to connect a community in West Yorkshire
21 January 2025
When you start out to set up a New Place for New People you’re never really sure where it will take you. David Buck from the Yorkshire West District shares his experience of engaging with the local community to understand what they need to thrive and how this took six months of wandering the streets of Pontefract.
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Young Chorister of the Year 2024
14 January 2025
Rubie Le Masurier, aged 14, who attends St. Helier Methodist Centre, Jersey was one of the finalists for the 2024 Young Chorister of the Year.
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University, chaplaincy and conflict
14 January 2025
The conflict involving Israel, Hamas and Gaza has had repercussions around the world. The international tensions caused by this war have been felt at universities and higher education establishments here in Great Britain.
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Warm Spaces and beyond in Saltash
06 January 2025
Since opening its Warm Space, Saltash Wesley Methodist Church in the South West Peninsula District provides increasing services to the community from several meals a week, showers, toiletries and administrative support.
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Hush the consumerism: Horrabridge's Christmas Grotto
18 December 2024
The Christmas Grotto in Horrabridge in the South West Peninsula District emerged from a practical response to families' challenges, transforming a local private pub into a magical winter wonderland.
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Babe in the Manger
17 December 2024
Babe in the Manger is an original creation of Anne Middleton, the Performing Arts Mission Enabler of the Plymouth & Devonport Methodist Circuit!
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Hush the PTSD
17 December 2024
This Christmas we are being invited to Hush the Noise but for some, that noise can be the deafening sound of past trauma. The Revd Richard Smith CF, Assistant Chaplain General with the British Army, shares these personal thoughts on Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, also known as PTSD,
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