St Mary the Virgin Church, Finedon awarded grant by The National Lottery Heritage Fund to create an inclusive and accessible space for community and educational activities and social events. Today, St Mary the Virgin Church, Finedon is delighted to announce a £97,992 grant from The National Lottery Heritage Fund to support an ambitious renewal project …
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This Holy Week we invite you to visit St Mary the Virgin, Finedon and wander through a prayer trail which will encourage you to walk in step with Jesus on the journey towards the cross. Throughout the church will be number of prayer stations, each station intended to ask you to reflect, pray or explore …
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During our 2025 Flower Festival we launched something new! An event called "Flower Festival After Hours" which saw the church and displays lit up and the building opened up later in the evening for people to explore the displays in a different setting. The inside of the church was engulfed in projection, lights and music …
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Ahead of our APCM on the 6th April following our 9:30am Sung Eucharist please see reports and financial statements in the below links. Annual ReportFinancial Report
From the February 2025 Parish Magazine Dear friends, February is the month where the days are beginning to feel a little lighter and longer and the first signs of spring are beginning to break forth. Spring is a time of renewal and hope, tentative though that might be early in the month. The photograph below …
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From the January 2025 Parish Magazine Dear friends, Happy New Year or as the Japanese would say, akemashite (the New Year has dawned!) omedetou (Congratulations!) gozaimasu! I'm offering you the Japanese version of Happy New Year because of their acknowledgement that the New Year has begun. We often seem reluctant, I think, to pause in …
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From the January 2025 Parish Magazine From November 29th to 1st December St Mary’s had a busy weekend with the Christmas Tree Festival, Rushden Town Brass Band concert and finishing off with the Advent Carol service in church. Even though a little cold with no heating, the warmth of the start of the Christmas season …
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Whether you visit us once over Advent and Christmas or attend every service, you have perhaps never considered the work which happens behind the scenes to make sure everything happens smoothly. Planning for the season started back in July when our Fundraising Committee met to decide upon the theme for the Christmas Tree Festival. In …
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Earlier this autumn a team formed within our congregation to take assemblies into Finedon Mulso Junior School as part of the Bible Societies "Open the Book" programme which is "an exciting storytelling project where Bible stories are shared with children in a way that is fun, interactive and memorable". The group is led by Pete …
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From the December 2024 Parish Magazine Dear friends, Time flies when we are having fun! Hopefully you will feel like this too; it only seems a few days since I was licensed as Vicar here and yet both Becky and I feel well settled into the church and wider community - if feels like we …
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