Our notices are circulated by email to all members of our church (those on the electoral roll). You can use the ‘Contact us’ section of this website to ask for this weekly email to be sent to you.
 MacMillan Coffee Morning: Thanks to all who supported our Coffee Morning on Friday and especially to Pam for organising the event. This is also the last Sunday for you to make donations for our MacMillan Cancer Support Appeal. The total sum raised will be published next week. |
 Songs of Praise: This afternoon at 3:00pm, we welcome congregations from our other local churches to join us to listen and/or sing well-loved hymns and stay for tea and homemade cake. Do join us if you can and let Esme know if you can help with serving refreshments. |
 After the Midweek Communion Service on Wednesday, (2nd), there is a first meeting of the ‘kneeler group’ for those interested in helping prepare an exhibition and considering the future repurposing of the church’s kneelers. Tea, coffee and light refreshments provided. Please contact Claire Spencer for further details and to confirm attendance: clairestnicolas@gmail.com. |
 Hope Café: Next Wednesday is our monthly Hope Café from 2:00pm—3:30pm. Join us for refreshment of the body and mind in friendly chat and good company. |
 Celebration of Rev. Nick Plant’s 25 years of ordained ministry: Next Sunday (6th October) is the nearest Sunday to when Nick was ordained 25 years ago. Nick will conduct our Sung Eucharist Service at St Nicolas Church on this day. [Picture from Maidenhead Advertiser 2014 when Nick took over Cookham Parish having been associate priest there for five years.] |
| Other Notices |
 Burnham Litter Pick: Next Saturday (5th October), Churches Together are supporting Burnham Parish Council’s ‘litter pick’ between 9-30am and 1-30 pm. All the pickers, gloves, bags, hoops, and maps etc. will be provided although one can provide one’s own equipment (e.g. gloves) if desired. Teas, coffee & biscuits throughout. |
 Cantorum Cantatas: The excellent local Cantorum Choir is coming to St Nicolas Church on Saturday, 13th October (7:00pm) and will be joined by a professional instrumental ensemble and soloists to perform Buxtehude and Bruckner motets, along with the exhilarating Bach Cantata 21. The cantata begins darkly atmospheric and passes through images of despair and sighing, until finally with the aid of the trumpet section, it reaches rejoicing and triumph. Tickets £20 available from Hilary or via the choir website (see link below)Book tickets for Cantorum Choirt |
 Harvest Festival: This year, our Harvest Festival will be held on Sunday, 13th October at 10:45. Our October Charity Appeal will be for Burnham Food Share; more information next week. |
 ‘What are you looking for?’: Sometimes you can go to the church website and not be sure where to find what you are looking for. There is a simple answer to this! Go to ‘Documents’ and click ‘What are you looking for’ (see link below). There you will find all the web pages listed on one screen and you can click on any page title and go directly to that page. Might save you some time!What are you looking for? |
 Remembrance Sunday: This is always the nearest Sunday to 11th November so this year our Remembrance Service will be on Sunday, 10th November starting at 10:15. A lovely way to reflect on Remembrance this year will be to also attend our special Taplow Talk on Thursday, 14th November. See the details below. |
St Nicolas joins the REFILL REVOLUTION!: We are reducing our plastic waste by refilling used plastic bottles instead of sending them to be recycled or wasted. We have teamed up with the REFILL HUB (see advert in our Christmas newsletter) to supply the church with cleaning materials that createPLASTIC WASTE. We already have products in church which you can try. Look out for our supplies of:
Liquid Hand Soap(French Vanilla)
Hand Sanitiser Gel 70% alcohol(French Vanilla)
Anti-bac All Purpose Cleaner(French Lavender)
Washing Up Liquid(Rhubarb and Lemon)
Toilet Cleaner(Spearmint and Peppermint)
The REFILL HUB visits Burnham Market on Wednesday mornings 8.30 – 13.00, and several other venues. Times and prices are given on their website.refill-hub.co.uk. If you wish to reduce your own plastic waste you can either take your empty plastic bottles to the Refill Hub, or bring them to church and Hilary will get them filled for you. Chat to Hilary for more details.
Parish Giving Scheme: Our treasurer, Jessie Cooper points out to us that the very best way to contribute to the work of our Parish Church is to use the Parish Giving Scheme. If you do not yet use this way of donating to church and you would like to know more about it or ask any questions, please contact Jessie Cooper (Parish Treasurer) in confidence… by email: jessie.stnicolas@gmail.com or phone: 01628 603187
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