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GIVE-TO-GO-GREEN – FACULTY APPLICATION

The PCC was awarded £10,000 by the Church of England’s Give-to-go-Green fund, as matched funding towards a £20,000 target to pay for a new 3-phase grid connection for the church.

The money will be used to pay National Grid to lay a 3-phase electricity cable beneath Moor Road to a new metering cabinet in the churchyard (next to the bike racks). From here, an armoured cable will be buried along the base of the north boundary wall to reach the north door of the church. The funding will also cover the new 3-phase distribution board, to be located next to the gas boilers, plus the adjustments needed to the internal church wiring to balance the electrical loads across the 3 phases.

At the same time, the north entrance of the church will be modified to include ramped access, so also providing a discrete cable route into the church.

A faculty for this work has been approved in principal by the Diocese, and has entered a public consultation period until June 17^th. You can download details of the application here, or view them at the back of the church. You are also welcome to ask the PCC for more information.

A reminder that there will be a special service on Sunday 13th April at 6.30pm with readings and music for passiontide.

A reminder that there are NO services at Breadsall on Sunday 6 April. We will be meeting together at Morley church at 1030.

Normal services resume 13 April – with a special service that evening of readings and music for passiontide.

Thank you to everyone who supported, and contributed to, the Give-to-go-Green fund-raising campaign held before Christmas. With Gift Aid on top, we raised an incredible £13,500 from within our community, all in just 6 weeks. We thereby successfully activated the £10,000 matching funds from the Church of England’s Net Zero pot, which arrived in January. 

We are now actively planning the work programme to implement the 3-phase grid connection into the church over the summer. This will be the springboard to all our other ideas for improving the functionality and sustainability of the church – not least, coming off gas. 

It was humbling to see how wide is the network of people and businesses willing to support our precious building and what it stands for in the community.

The plans for the proposed new disabled toilet and kitchen have been revised again. Please see the attached plan for the latest version. Comments on this to the churchwardens please as soon as possible.

One of our young people, Lola Dean, is planning to visit Africa in 2025 to volunteer at a school in Kenya. She needs to raise a significant sum of money to proceed on this trip and as part of the fund raising, she is undertaking a sponsored walk from Matlock to Derby, a journey of about 20 miles.

If you able to sponsor her, please visit www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/LolaDeansAfricanAdventure?utm_term=jWbeErX8v

We will try to follow her progress and wish her and the family every success in this challenge.

Please note the Annual Parochial Church Meeting (where election of PCC representatives and approval of the financial and other reports for 2023 takes place) will be held after the morning service this Sunday April 14th at around 1130. It will be preceded by the Annual vestry meeting where the election of Churchwardens will be undertaken. Please attend if you can. All persons living in the parish can vote at the Annual Vestry meeting and all persons on the Electoral Roll at the main meeting.

Just a reminder that there is NO 1015 service on Christmas Eve.

There will be services at 8 am (Communion) and then 4 pm and 6 pm (Christingle) and finally Midnight Mass starting at 1130 pm

For those of you who would like to meet in person to discuss our Advent book ‘A Guiding Star’, Lizzie will be hosting a face-to-face meeting with tea and cake next Monday in Breadsall church. We will chat about what your reflections are from the book so far. Meet at 11:30

A Guiding Star – Lizzie Paish

If you have not yet seen a copy, check this out: