Transforming Communities List of Donations issued in 2020

 We are blessed at St Bartholomew’s and St Anne’s to be able to give approximately 10% of our annual income to support good causes internationally, nationally and locally. In January 2020 the Transforming Communities group met to discuss our contributions for the year. Unfortunately due to the onset of the Covid 19 virus and subsequent lockdown of our Churches, we had to review the list as our income over the year decreased. I have listed below the donations which have been made to our chosen charities for the year.

Christian Aid £1000
The Children’s Society  £1500
Open Doors £  750
Give us a Break£  250
Knit and Natter  £ 100
Cruse Wolverhampton  £1000
Matlosane £  250
Acorns Childrens Hospice   £  250
The Haven   £  250
Tearfund   £  250
Medair £  250
Wolverhampton City of Sanctus £  250
Midland Air Ambulance  £  250
Teenage Cancer  £  250
Crisis  £  250

Total £6850

 We have received Thank You letters from several of the charities. The Transforming Communities Group will soon be discussing the donations to be made in 2021. If you have any suggestions for charities to receive a proportion of this money, could you please put them, in writing, in an envelope addressed to  me and posted in the outside Church office postbox by the Oak Room door and they will be considered by the group. Please submit your suggestions by 31 January 2021. When we have got a suggested list this will be presented to the PCC for approval.
Please continue to give generously. Thank You. Stay safe. God Bless.

Anne Edwards
Transforming Communities Champion.

The Well Foodbank: Particularly needed right now are tinned vegetables of all kinds, especially tinned potatoes, tinned fruit, rice pudding, any other tinned puddings, rice and pasta sachets, toiletries, large size nappies. Other tinned or dried items also welcome. PLEASE AVOID out-of-date items, opened packets & fresh foods, as these cannot be used. If you would like to help please add your donation to the trolley at the back of church and it will rapidly find its way to someone in need.

For more information http://thewellwolverhampton.co.uk

The gentleman who collected the items for the Food Bank just before Christmas asked if we could pass on a very big thank you to all who contribute items to the Food Bank. He said they are much appreciated and it is very kind of you to continue to give so generously to them. 

Prayer shawls bring the wearer warmth and affection both in times of sorrow and in times of celebration. They make ideal gifts for comforting and celebrating important stages in life.

The making of a prayer shawl is a spiritual practice which embodies our thoughts and prayers for the receiver. It is gift made in prayer and freely given. The shawls are passed on hand-to-hand and heart-to-heart.

Prayer shawls are prayerfully and lovingly knitted, sometimes with a person in mind or as part of a supply when a need is identified. They can be given to people who are ill, hurting or in a time of transition.

We have given them to people following ~ bereavement ~ during illness ~ to new students ~ for new beginnings ~ to new mums ~ going through a tough time ~ just because.

If you would like more information or if there is someone you would like to give a prayer shawl to, please let me know. They do not need to be a member of this or any other church.                        

Saskia                                                                                  

On behalf of the knitting ministry at St. Bart’s

Email Saskia.poller@gmail.com                                                    

or speak to Anne Edwards 01902 337478

or contact the Parish Office on 01902 576809

Thank you all so much for your donations which are always appreciated and much needed for Wolverhampton City of Sanctuary. Always in demand are clothes (for all ages and sizes), household and kitchen items, towels and bedding, children’s toys and books, toiletries and sanitary products.  Thank you for your ongoing support. Please contact Annette Souter to arrange for any donations to be collected or delivered to her on Tel: 07952 777998 or annette_souter@hotmail.com    Please do not deliver to Church.

Zoom Choir Practice Friday evenings – if anyone is interested in joining the choir, please speak to Ben. 

Church Floodlighting:  If you wish the Church to be floodlit in memory of a loved-one or to celebrate a special anniversary, birthday etc, please contact the Parish Office on 01902 576809. The cost is only £15 and the Church is lit from dusk to midnight.

Please Pray for: Those for whom extra prayer is needed:

Alice Corbett,  Brian Hopson,  Grace Simkin,  Darren Westwood,  Jeanette Saunders, 

Jutta Dougan,  Robert Farmer,  Jane Green,  Pauline Hollington,  Wendy Carly,

Thomas Griffiths,  Keren Anthony,  Jean & George Spooner,  Frank Northern,  Lucy Harris, Andrea Bradley, Deryk Vernon. 

Please Pray for: The family and friends of those who have died:   

Peter Evans,  William Bird,  Betty Walker,  Peter Price,  Susan Barnett,  Angela Catherall,  Carol Ruddlesden,  Pat Blest,  Jean Farrands,  Pamela Bood,  Raymond Stone.     

The Church will be floodlit on the evening of

Tuesday 26^th January

in loving memory of  Pearl Kendrick