“The House of Commons Private Members’ Bill ballot has now taken place, and your MP needs to hear from you again. A number of the 20 MPs drawn in this morning’s ballot voted for the assisted suicide Bill at Third Reading last year. They are now coming under considerable pressure from assisted suicide campaigners, led by Kim Leadbeater MP, to bring back her dangerous Bill. Please take 30 seconds now to send your MP a new email with important new polling that every MP needs to see, whether or not they were drawn in the ballot. New polling from Whitestone Insight has been released following the ballot, and is the largest public poll conducted on assisted suicide since the Leadbeater assisted suicide Bill was introduced. The polling includes seat-by-seat results that show there is no local mandate in your constituency for MPs to revive Kim Leadbeater’s failed assisted suicide Bill and bypass the House of Lords to push it into law. This needs to get in front of your MP as soon as possible, so they can see what people in your constituency think. The Other Half, who commissioned the polling, has launched an easy tool that lets you email your MP with the poll results for your constituency and ask them to oppose the Bill being brought back. Please take 30 seconds now to contact your MP, using the simple tool. ” Write to your MP - Stop the assisted dying bill being brought back
PUBLIC EXAMS:- are underway! SATS, GCSE, A.s & A levels, as well as the differing university exams. These can therefore be anxious and tense times, both for those undertaking exams and for their families and friends, so, even if you are not directly involved in such matters, please do keep those concerned in your prayers at this time, that there be ‘level heads’ patients, discipline, and understanding. Very many thanks.
GIFT AID ENVELOPES 2026/2027 :- As always, our grateful thanks to all those who are able to make financial contribution to the parish via the ‘Gift Aid’ scheme. For those who do so via the envelope system, we are pleased to tell you the envelopes for this tax year 26/27 are available in the sacristy, please collect your box with your name on a printed label on it at the earliest opportunity. Very many thanks. PARISH GIFT AID: - Our thanks to all those who are able to support our parish financially. It is a legal obligation that those who donate via the Gift Aid scheme receive an annual statement of their donations and the amount of tax that has been reclaimed via this scheme. Those who have a recorded email address will have received a statement via email, for everyone else please collect your paper copy from the parish office as soon as possible to avoid wasting your money on postage. A final plea, please do not use old envelopes as the numberings have been reassigned and these will NOT be added to your donations unless your name and current envelope number are on them. Any old envelopes can be recycled as they contain no useable personal data. Should you have any queries please contact the parish office. Many thanks. Gift Aid and the ‘card machines ’:- Just a reminder that parish and diocesan donations via the card machine can be ‘Gift Aided’ if the card has been registered on one of the machines for Gift Aid, with the proviso that you, the donor, use the same ‘bank card’ each time to make any such donation. We will advise in the next couple of weeks of someone being available to assist and help / show individuals wishing to make ‘Gift Aided’ contributions in this way. That said, we advise that ‘third party donations’ such as CAFOD where Gift Aid is encouraged, would require individuals to put their details on the envelopes provided by the charity and indicate ‘donation via card payment’, with the amount specified; this will then be forwarded to the particular charity. Very many thanks for your understanding.