Harvest Festival

for 1 hour, 30 mins
St Mary's Whicham
Whicham, Near Silecroft Millom Cumbria, LA18 5LS, United Kingdom

A Family Friendly thanksgiving service and a celebration of farming and all that sustains our wonderful community.
This will be followed by tea, coffee, cake and chat - a chance to catch up with friends and neighbours.
We will give all the tinned and packet food to the Food Bank. The fresh food will be sold off after the service and the proceeds will also be given to the Food Bank.

St Mary's Whicham

St Mary's is a attractive Grade 2 listed church sitting at the foot of Black Combe in the picturesque Whicham Valley.The churchyard is particularly spectacular in spring, when it is filled with snowdrops, crocus and daffodils.   It is at the start of a popular path for walkers up Black Combe and the church is illustrated in Wainwright's fellwalking guides (Outlying Fells, p 166)..

The congregation is mainly drawn from the villages of Silecroft and Kirksanton as well as from the farms and houses of the Whicham Valley. The congregation is friendly and welcoming and the services offers a mixture of traditional, family and more modern. 

The church is part of the parish of the Black Combe Churches, sharing worship with the churches of St Michael's Bootle, St Mary's Whitbeck and St John's Corney.


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Revd Angela Overton-Benge

The Rectory
Main Street
Bootle
Millom
Cumbria

LA19 5TH
Revd Angela Overton-Benge
(01229) 718632

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Harvest Festival

for 1 hour, 30 mins
St Mary's Whicham
Whicham, Near Silecroft Millom Cumbria, LA18 5LS, United Kingdom

A Family Friendly thanksgiving service and a celebration of farming and all that sustains our wonderful community.
This will be followed by tea, coffee, cake and chat - a chance to catch up with friends and neighbours.
We will give all the tinned and packet food to the Food Bank. The fresh food will be sold off after the service and the proceeds will also be given to the Food Bank.

Safeguarding

At all the churches in the parish of Black Combe Churches in Cumbria, we work hard to maintain a safe environment for all. We are committed to implementing the House of Bishops’ safeguarding policies and good practice guidance. If you have any concerns or enquiries regarding safeguarding, please contact our safeguarding officer.
Parish Safeguarding Officer: Janice Hillier
Email: [email protected]
Phone: 07470 239029
The Diocesan Safeguarding Adviser is Joanna Van Lachterop and she can be contacted at [email protected] or at 07458 016884.

If you have immediate concerns about the safety of someone, please contact the police and your local authority’s children or adult social care services.
The Black Combe Churches website has additional contact information.

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