Photographs of local scenes and events are invited for the 2026 Holy Trinity Calendar Competition.Open to Amateur photographers, there is a prize of £50 for the best photo.13 images will be chosen to be in the 2027 Holy Trinity Calendar and all photos will be displayed at the Calendar launch event at church in September.Photos needs to be Landscape, printed at 7" x 5" and submitted no later than July 11th 2026.Please include on a separate piece of paper the location and date the photograph was taken and sending them to Sue Thompson, 2 Newlands Close, Kidderminster DY11 5ARFor further information please contact Chris Grainger 07710508558 greygreenfarm@btopenworld.com or Sue Thompson 01562 752389
Download your Lent book here: https://mcusercontent.com/6aeb30def387d0b2463ebdba9/files/0114366a-e71c-88b5-5f1e-6a110737225f/Lent_book_2026.01.pdfDownload a children’s activity Lent book here: https://mcusercontent.com/6aeb30def387d0b2463ebdba9/f
After a short wait of just 150 years Holy Trinity has its first ever toilet! The church has no access to the mains water supply or sewerage, meaning it had no toilet facilities. Both the church and Worcester diocese looked carefully at all options before agreeing to a small external building with a Natsol composting toilet. The idea for a toilet at Holy Trinity first began in 2016. Fundraising began officially at Harvest 2017 with the launch of the Relief Fund and that was also the point at which the non-existent loo was twinned with 4 loos in Africa.It is thanks to so many people that we have been able to raise the £26000 it has cost. There have been personal donations, plant and bulb sales, concerts, Easyfundraising online, cake sales that have all been organised by a hardworking and dedicated HT team. And a particular mention and thanks to everyone for continuing the efforts through the COVID pandemic with pop up sales along the roadside...incredible work. It was a team effort too in going through every possibility of toilet type and style. Ultimately we came back to the very first suggestion of a composting toilet. And after more research, including a visit to Bearwood allotments, we decided on this NatSol one. The final £14,700 was granted by the National Lottery and the groundworks were done – we used a company who had installed the one we had visited.Then it was down to a huge team effort again to build the building and install the fittings. Juggling around all sorts of weather and own work schedules. The build coincided with Rogation weekend and the plant sale so we invited visitors to write a message or prayer on a tile before it was added to the roof. The toilet is not just for the Sunday congregation, or Rake and Cake crew...but for everyone – it’s already been available and used at a funeral and a wedding and is open for visitors to the churchyard and those just passing through. A real community facility. So it is a huge thank you to every one who has donated, bought cakes, bought plants, come to a concert. Everyone who searched the internet, made phone calls or has held a hammer or screwdriver or footed a ladder. Everyone who has made drinks and cakes or who has sent messages of encouragement or prayers.To mark this achievement, Bishop Martin Gorrick, Bishop of Dudley joined the congregation and supporters for a celebration evening on 23rd July, and blessed the toilet and everyone involved.
Coming soon in Holy Trinity, Trimpley there will be a selection of fairly new fiction books for anyone to browse and take home with them. The idea came from a local resident who saw the scheme in another rural church and felt it would benefit the people of Trimpley. It works by people popping in to church and browsing the selection of donated, fairly recently published fiction books, choosing one or two to take home to read. They can then return them and exchange them for another. Donations of books are also gratefully received.Buying new books, or even second hand ones can be out of reach for many people and the distance to the nearest library can be a challenge. So this scheme, for which there is no charge, can be a real benefit.The books on offer will be monitored to maintain the selection as fairly recent - approximately the last 5 or so years (although there may be particular exceptions)
