This year’s Confirmation Service will be conducted by the Bishop of Bolton on Sunday 10th June 2018 at 3.30pm. If there are any young people in Year 6 or above who would like to be confirmed this year please come along to church and pick up an information sheet and...
Scarecrows are coming!! Every house in Blackrod will shortly receive an application form for the Blackrod Scarecrow Festival which will take place on 30th June and 1st July this year. The slips to register your scarecrow will need to be returned by the date shown—look out for it through your...
On Wednesday 18th April at The Laurels at Charnock Ladies Who Lunch meets once a month for lunch at various venues around the area. Meet new friends, have a chat, enjoy a good meal. Transport can be provided from Blackrod. Why not join us? There’s a raffle and proceeds go to...
Congratulations to Sophie who is the first person to be admitted to Communion before Confirmation at St Katharine’s. Good wishes for the future Sophie.
A Circular Walk from Little Scotland to Haigh For the March walk we met at our lunch venue, The Goose and Gander Restaurant, Little Scotland. Very kindly they allowed us to use their car park. Fortunately by the time we started it had stopped drizzling with the expectation of improving...
This year, we decided that rather than dress up and act out the Christmas story, we would make a representation of the story ourselves. Given a choice of Lego, junk, modelling clay, paper chains and tissue paper, we chose to build each scene using Lego, supported by Plasticine. We also used...
Rivington Terraced Gardens The BBC forecast said snow. The Met Office said rain. At 10am outside the Crown at Horwich there were 18 of us gathered and it was dry. No sign of rain, just cloudy and windy. We set off walking down Bolton Road and up Dryfield Lane. Only...
Church of England News…. #LiveLent – Let your light shine is a Lent journey through the Gospel of John, offering a short daily reading, a pause for reflection and prayer and a challenge to act. We’re working closely with the Thy Kingdom Come team as part of this key moment in the...
26 February – 11 March 2018 This year’s theme is “Come on in” The food on our tables, the tea and coffee in our mugs, all from farmers who toil, sweat and slog. However hard they work to provide the things we depend on, millions of farmers in developing countries...
The first walk of 2018 started in cloudy conditions but not cold. There were 20 of us with one dog as we set off from the Hare and Hounds at Abbey Village. Walking up the footpath parallel with Dole Lane we passed through a small copse of trees before...