News & Notices
Welcome to the website for the Whitton Team in the Diocese of Salisbury.
Pew Sheet for Sunday 21st September 2025
Collect and Readings for 21st September 2025
Aldbourne Churches Together for 21st September 2025
Deuteronomy 26:1-2~’When you have come into the land that the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance to possess, and you possess it, and settle in it, you shall take some of the first of all the fruit of the ground, which you harvest from the land that the Lord your God is giving you, and you shall put it in basket and go to the place that the Lord your God will choose as a dwelling for his name.’’
Ramsbury & Axford Village Diary October 2025 (NEW!)
Ramsbury & Axford Village Diary September 2025
Whitton Team Office Hall: Open for booking
Back Lane, Ramsbury
ALDBOURNE HERITAGE CENTRE
The Aldbourne Heritage Centre is open for 2025 from Saturday 29 March. It will be open, as usual, on Saturdays and Sundays every weekend and Bank Holiday until October.
In addition, this year it will also be open on Wednesdays 1pm to 4pm. There are lots of new Exhibits so please come along and enjoy them.
See the Aldbourne Heritage Centre website for more details.
Sculpture Exhibition in Avebury Manor Garden
30 August to 19 October, 10:00 to 17:00, Free with normal garden admission
This autumn, the garden at Avebury Manor becomes an outdoor gallery, hosting a range of beautiful sculptures and artwork set against the backdrop of colourful seasonal planting. Works from 23 artists will be on display, with the 2025 list featuring a host of returning names and some first-time exhibitors. All sculptures are for sale, please enquire at visitor reception if you are interested in purchasing any.
No need to book. More details: https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/visit/wiltshire/avebury/events
Guided Tour of Avebury Manor Garden
Thursday, 18 September, 10-11:30 am. £10 per person.
Join Garry, Avebury Manor Garden’s Head Gardener on a guided tour of the garden ‘rooms’. Garry will talk about the fascinating history of the site, how the garden has developed over the centuries and how the team are working to adapt the garden to climate change and new challenges. At the end of the tour there will be time to benefit from Garry’s experience and ask your own gardening questions.Booking essential. https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/visit/wiltshire/avebury/events/ or call 0344 249 1895.
Pastoral Care
We are committed to continue providing spiritual and pastoral care for all who live in our communities. Click here to see the contact details for clergy, the Parish Administrator, Lay Pastoral Assistants and Safeguarding Officer
Please email helpline@whittonteam.org.uk with any requests for prayer and/or practical help. Email pcc@whittonteam.org.uk to be added to our mailing list.
Please click here to visit the Whitton Team Safeguarding Policy page.
Whitton Team – Safeguarding Policy
Please click here to read the Whitton Team Ministry Safeguarding Policy (PDF opens in new window)
The Whitton Team Benefice PCC has formally adopted the House of Bishops’ Promoting a Safer Church: Safeguarding Policy Statement. Any queries should be addressed to safeguarding@pccwhitton.onmicrosoft.com or to a member of the clergy.
Urgent Swindon Food Collective Appeal & Assistance
How can you help? We have a special appeal page. Click here
There are food donation collection baskets in the porches at Aldbourne, Baydon and Ramsbury and at Aldbourne Stores.
Information on donating funds to the Swindon Food Collective is on their website.
“Feeding the Five Thousand”
The churches have made contact with Swindon Food Collective, who would be prepared to help us with food parcels for anyone who is currently having difficulty in paying for basic food. There is also local funding available to help with this, in addition to the sterling work already being done by Parish and County Councils and volunteers in the villages. If you are aware of someone in this kind of need, or email helpline@whittonteam.org.uk
Whitton Team News on Facebook
You can find and follow the Whitton Team on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/WhittonTeamNews
Whitton Wonderings on Facebook
Short video reflections about life, the universe and everything from a faith perspective, can be found on Whitton Team News, our Facebook page.You do not need a Facebook account to watch these, but if you are on Facebook, please click on the reactions, comment and share it with friends. Contributors are drawn from our Worship Leaders, lay and ordained.
Praying round the Parish
Just a reminder that on Facebook each day, we nominate a small set of roads from our six villages, as well as some of the groups within them, suggesting that we particularly remember the people in them in our prayers that day. In the course of a month we cover the whole Parish. After you pray, perhaps ring someone you know in one of those roads or groups and check they’re OK – and maybe add some practical help to your prayers? Prayer List – (PDF)
Grapevine
Grapevine is the Diocese of Salisbury’s newsletter, sharing stories of lives transformed in Christ from around Dorset and Wiltshire. Please visit the Diocese of Salisbury website for the latest Grapevine. Current copies can also be found at the back of each church.