Author: Margaret Day

On Saturday 15th July we will be re-launching as ‘Kidlinks’, with our very own website
and a party at St John’s to celebrate! There will be lots of fun crafts and activities
available in the hall for 0-5 year olds and their siblings, a SENsory quiet room, bouncy
castles on the forecourt, a glitter tattooist, Simon the magician and balloon modeler,
freshly made pizza from Uggy’s pizza van, a huge array of cakes, teas and coffees to
purchase, picnics, and lots more! We are also going to be officially ‘cutting the ribbon’
on our garden area, so we would like as many families to join us as possible and make
this a celebration not to be forgotten! So come down and join us from 12-3pm for
playtime in the hall, a party on the forecourt and picnics on the green

To find out more about all we are already doing at the Hub, just go to Kidlington Community Hub and look out for news of the new Kidlinks website coming soon.

Our super Parish Fete is coming soon! It will be in and around St Mary’s Kidlington on Saturday 1st July, 12.30pm to 4pm. There will be plenty of entertainment, a Lego Challenge, BBQ, beer/wine tent, lunch/tea available and lots of interesting stalls to browse. And the ever-popular Dog Show will be held at 2pm. Do come along for a fun afternoon – even if it rains there will be plenty to do and see inside the building.

St Mary’s Hampton Poyle is hosting a Coffee Morning with Bring & Buy and Bake Sale on Saturday 24th June, 10.30am – 12.30pm. Do come along to browse, buy, or just watch the world go by as you chat over a cup of coffee.

Did you know our Summer Sunday Teas are back at St Mary’s Kidlington? We started the season with a fabulous celebration on the coronation weekend. But they are no less joyful on an “ordinary” Sunday. Come and enjoy tea/coffee and homemade cakes between 3pm and 5pm in St Mary’s Refectory (round the back of the church).

We will be celebrating the Feast of Pentecost together with all the Christian churches in the village. The service will be held at 10.30am at Kidlington Baptist Church. Do join us for this special service if you can.

It will also be livestreamed on the KBC YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@kidlingtonbaptistchurch9420

And you can join us online for Zoom coffee after the service:

https://zoom1434.us/j/994759146

The Annual Parochial Church Meeting (APCM) is the annual meeting of all church supporters to review the past year, including the accounts, and to reflect on this and the way forward. It includes lots of essential admin, especially electing members of the Parochial Church Council, who are the trustees of the church as a charity. It begins with a (legally) separate Annual Parish Meeting (APM) for the election of churchwardens.

In 2023 these meetings will be held on Tuesday 9th May at 8pm, in St John’s, starting with the APM. You can find more details here.

The third of this season’s Winter Tea Talks will be at St John’s Church on Sunday 12th March, 3pm. Do join us.

To find out all that’s happening in the parish over the season of Lent and Easter, just click here

Do join us at St John’s for the second in our 2023 series of Tea Talks – 3pm on 12th February.

Our traditional and very popular Tea Talks are back for another season – the second Sunday in January, February and March, starting at 3pm. The one important difference is that this year we will be holding the talks in St John’s rather than St Mary’s because it is so much easier to heat that building.

In January our speaker will be Sir Peter Ratcliffe, postponed from previous years, so we are delighted we can hear more about the work for which he was awarded a Nobel prize in 2019.