Food Bank
A collection of food and toiletries for the food bank at the Skelmersdale Ecumenical Centre is continuing.
They seek to give out food parcels which are nutritionally balanced. They are short supplies which make that possible.
The food bank would appreciate donations of the following: tinned carrots; tinned mixed vegetables: tinned meat e.g. spam/ham corned beef; tinned chicken meals e.g. curry or chicken in white sauce; tins of meatballs; tinned spaghetti bolognese; tins of ravioli; tinned rice pudding; tinned custard; tinned fruit; sugar (500g bags);teabags in 40 or 80 packs; long life milk; dried pasta pasta ‘n’ sauce.
Recycle Your Crisp Packets
Every year countless pieces of crisp packets end up in landfill site across the UK. All Saints’ C of E Primary School is working on a project with TerraCycle to promote the recycling of crisp packets.
All Saints’ C of E Primary School now have a recycle bin the school foyer for crisp packets.
The school foyer – it is open to all from 7.00 am to 5.00 pm. The please help environment and school funds by using it.
Any brand of crisp packets can be recycled. Learn more at http://www.terracycle.co.uk
Big Thanks from The Brick and a message from Keely Dalfen
To everyone at All Saints, thank you so much for your generous donation of cash and non perishable food items for our Food Bank. Your support goes a long way to helping those in our community who are struggling. On 1st November the charity took over St George’s church in Wigan under the ‘No First Night Out’ scheme which is now providing a safe place to sleep for everyone in need, every night throughout the winter months. Please keep praying for us as we continue to move in the right direction towards a full 24/7 provision for our homeless. God Bless from all the Staff, Volunteers and Trustees.
To find out more about what they do, checkout their website. http://www.thebrick.org.uk/
Operation Christmas Child
Thanks to the many people who filled shoeboxes a to share God’s love and the joy of Christmas. 22 boxes were sent from our church for the 2018 campaign.
Thanks to all who helped All Saints C of E School
Message from the Friends of All Saints School
Aviva Community Fund Update
Results in the ‘Skills for Life’ category were announced recently and unfortunately we weren’t successful in our bid for £9000 for new IT equipment.
However, we are very happy (and grateful!) to announce that the Aviva Community Fund has awarded us £500 in recognition of our efforts, which we will use along with our normal fundraising to fund some new laptops.
Congratulations to those projects that did win… and we’ll be sure to try again in future years. We’ve learnt a lot from this process and will be looking into other grants/ schemes like this to help bolster our efforts.
If anyone is interested in helping out with these grant applications or our general fundraising (we have lots coming up – watch this space!), please email us at friendsallsaints@yahoo.co.uk
Thanks again for all your support with our bid.
The Friends of All Saints School
The Big Brekkie was a Big Success Saturday 17th March 2018 at All Saints’ School.
Food, fun and fund-raising for Christian Aid. The final total raised for Christian Aid was a magnificent £723. Many thanks to all who attended, helped and contributed.