The Breakfast Club is back and open every Saturday. Opening times are 9-11am (later than before the pandemic). The food bank will also still be open 9-11am. Breakfast Club is now in church (not the church hall)We’re really looking forward to sharing breakfast with you again. Whether you used to be a regular or you’ve never been before, you’re really welcome to drop in. Please note that children must be accompanied by an adult.Please come and join us for free tea, coffee, juice, porridge, cereal, eggs, toast and of course friendly chat.We kindly ask thatdo not come to breakfast club if you have any Covid symptoms, have tested positive in the last 10 days or have been asked to isolate. Thank-you.
People with sight loss can easily feel unable to join in with or attend church, leading to a lack of community support and human connection. Torch Trust is a Christian sight loss charity, and has a new FREE initiative - Sight Loss Friendly Church (SLFC) which has been developed to help churches to become accessible for people with sight loss. More information can be found at the Homepage - Sight Loss Friendly Church from Torch TrustSt Matthew's is proud to now be a Sight Loss Friendly Church which means that we will always provide a warm welcome to people with sight loss. We will endeavour to follow these principles:THINK - When planning church events, services or communications think “What can we do to include blind or partially sighted people?”ASK - Approach individuals and ask what would be best for them.ACT - Make changes, adapt room layouts or use Torch resources so that everyone with sight loss feels included in your church.St Matthew's currently can provide large print hymn books, service sheets and Eucharist booklets. We are currently investigating how best to guide a blind individual around our building correctly.Our Sight Loss Champion is Mike Seymour. Please contact him on 07885 831868 or email at mikeseymour52@live.co.uk. We would welcome any feedback and ideas. Please speak to Mike, our Clergy, or the Church Wardens if there is anything we can do to assist you at St Matthew's. Thank-you.
Together@ St Matthew’s Following the success of our summer holiday programme, we are please to continue Together@St Matthew's on Mondays.The session will take place between 3.30 - 5pm on Mondays and is aimed at children and families (although all are welcome). There will be craft activities, games, food, prayer, music, chat and fun. Anyone can drop in at any point during the 90mins and stay for as little or long as they wish to but all under 18s must be accompanied by an adult. Please spread the word and encourage people to come along. We look forward to see you there.
