News & Notices
Welcome to the website for the Whitton Team in the Diocese of Salisbury.
Pew Sheet for Sunday 29th June 2025
Collect and Readings for 29th June 2025
Aldbourne Churches Together for 29th June 2025
Ramsbury and Axford Village Dairy June 2025
Ramsbury & Axford Village Diary July 2025 (NEW!)
Ordination of Matthew Haynes
The ordination of Matthew Haynes as a priest will take place in Salisbury Cathedral at 4.30pm on Saturday 28 June. He is currently completing his three-year curacy in Pewsey, but our hope is that he will return to us after that, having previously served as a Lay Worship Leader here (see his reflections on his curacy elsewhere in this issue).
Matthew has been a resident of Ramsbury and member of our wider parish community for more than 20 years, and is well known (among other things) for his active and enthusiastic participation in both the Bella Voce Choir and the Ravensbury Players!
We are hoping that many residents from the parish will want to attend to support Matthew, so we will be taking the Flyer down that afternoon, We anticipate leaving The Square in Ramsbury at 3:15pm to arrive in Salisbury in time for the service which is expected to finish around 6.00pm. The Flyer will then leave Salisbury Cathedral around 6.30pm to return to Ramsbury. For those who wish to drive themselves, it is recommended to arrive in good time as parking can be difficult at the Cathedral.
We have also arranged for the service to be live-streamed and this will be shown in Holy Cross Church, Ramsbury – all welcome.
INVITATION
Following his ordination as Priest on the 28th June, the Revd Matthew Haynes will be celebrating his first Eucharist as a Priest on the 29th , at St John the Baptist Church, Pewsey, SN9 5DL, at 6pm. We’re all warmly invited, and it would be lovely if some of us from him “home parish” could be there to support him!
12th / 13th July Saturday / Sunday
10.00am – 5pm “Scarecrow Weekend” @ Aldbourne, run jointly by Aldbourne Churches Together and Aldbourne school
31st August Sunday
“Songs of Praise” on the Rose of Hungerford, in aid of the KGVI School & Centre for Deaf & Disabled children in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe
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.
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.