Aldbourne
St Michaels, Aldbourne Chosen Charity of the Year
During 2023, St Michael’s (Aldbourne) Chosen Charity will be the Amandla Trust, which supports the King George VI School (KGVI) in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe. The school provides rehabilitation and boarding facilities for physically disabled and deaf young people many of whom come from socially deprived backgrounds. Please look out for details of fundraising events to be held in 2023. For more information contact Mike or Sue Rodd (541571 or resuerodd@btinternet.com)
Please pray for King George VI Centre in Bulawayo. Pray for Inez Hussey and the other staff and volunteers, and thank God for their dedication and care in the face of huge difficulties. Give thanks also for the “house day” at our own school, raising funds and awareness.
For more information look at
https://ihussey.wixsite.com/king-george-6/about_us
http://whittonteam.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/King-George-VI-Centre-Newsletter.pdf
For a video about King George VI Centre look at
Independent Living 2023 – YouTube
Services for the Whitton Team of Churches
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Links
St Michael’s Church, Aldbourne – A Church Near You
The Methodist Church in Aldbourne – opens a link to the North Wiltshire Methodist Circuit website. Contact details are also on the the new version of the Aldbourne Net village website
The Aldbourne Net Village website – home page
St. Michael’s C of E (Aided) School, Aldbourne
Sparklers
At St. Michael’s Church, Aldbourne – please see the Services page for the next session.
How you can help St Michael’s Church Aldbourne
It costs over £1,000 a week to keep our church ticking over. Over 90% of our income comes from donations. If you would like to support our church, you can do so:
1. By payment direct to our bank account, either as a one-off donation, or as a regular gift. Our bank account details are here
3. By on-line giving through our CAF (Charities Aid Foundation) page –click here for details. Please note that CAF payments are paid to us net of a small administration fee
4. By cheque made out to “Aldbourne Local Church Committee” and delivered for the attention of Treasurer, St Michael’s Church Aldbourne, c/o The Church Office Back Lane, Ramsbury, Marlborough, Wilts SN8 2QH
5. If you are a UK taxpayer and would like us to collect Gift Aid on your gift, please complete this form and send by post “For the attention of Treasurer, St Michael’s Church Aldbourne, c/o The Church Office Back Lane, Ramsbury, Marlborough, Wilts SN8 2QH”, or email to treasurer.smc.aldbourne@gmail.com
All gifts, small and large, are very appreciated. Thank you.
St Michael’s Churchyard Heritage Project
The St Michael’s Churchyard Heritage Project, carried out in 2017 and 2018, has sought to record, as far as possible, the inscriptions on each visible gravestone, building on key details captured in the Wiltshire Family History Society survey carried out in the early 1980s, and the information in St Michael’s Churchyard Burials file, located in the church.
Thanks to the efforts of project volunteers, we now have a comprehensive digital record of burial plot information dating back to the second half of the nineteenth century, including plots for which there are no headstones, as well as photos of each gravestone (from 1677), with full inscriptions, to the extent that these are legible. This digital record is available through the Aldbourne Community Heritage Group website, at http://aldbourneheritage.org.uk/village-history/aldbourne-monuments-digital-record A book is available for reference in the church that looks at, among other things, various aspects of the project, the history of the churchyard, interesting features of some of the stones and the people that they remember.