The Upper Itchen Benefice

See full details on the new Diocese website

Next Community Lunch
details to follow

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Archbishop's Message

The Archbishop of Canterbury's messages.
Watch broadcast here.

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New Upper Itchen Jute Bag
A great new long-lasting, benefice and environmentally friendly shopping 'jute' bag is now on sale - £4.50 each, available from Jane Jarman (771116) or Pamela Thomas (771590). Further details here.

Just Published!
Favourite Recipes from Cheriton
features nearly 150 favourite recipes from residents in Cheriton and further afield! On sale now, priced £7.50, at Cheriton Stores and The Flower Pots Inn, and also at Etiquette Cookware, Broad Street , Alresford Please see full details here

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WATSAN Uganda

The benefice has chosen (from all the suggestions put forward from the parish PCCs) the charity WATSAN as our mission partner for 2010/11. Managed by the Anglican Dioceses in south-west Uganda, the project aims to help poor people in the rural districts of Rukungiri and Kanungu to improve their lives by providing drinking water supply, hygiene eduation and sanitation improvements. Our benefice secretary Margaret Pickthorne is a trustee of the UK Support group and would be delighted to explain more, organise a visit to Uganda. Further details on our Charities Support page here

New Benefice Postcards
- VCG & Website -

Our new postcards are now printed - promoting the Upper Itchen Voluntary Care group (to potential clients primarily), and this benefice/villages website (on the reverse side of the postcard). Please use and distribute these free postcards very liberally if you can to all within the 6 villages of the Upper Itchen, and in any shops, clubs, businesses, village halls etc you possibly can - that would be a very great help. We hope the postcards will particularly enable more people to know about, and use, our local Voluntary Care Group for the many areas of help that our volunteers can give. Please spread the word - and the postcards (you can take stacks from any of the 6 churches or Cheriton shop; we have over 2,000 so help yourself to lots!)
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JIGSAW
An exciting new After-School Club
for KS1 & KS2

JIGSAW - Games, bible stories, art & craft, refreshments, songs and lots of fun. This after-school club for KS1 and KS2, run by the churches of the Upper Itchen Benefice, will meet on Wednesdays 3.45-4.45pm in Cheriton Primary School (term-time only). All local children welcome. For more details please contact Alex Hardie (771354).
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Talks, Courses & Lectures

See further details on Courses & Talks page
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Vision Day Summary
- Upper Itchen Benefice -

Following a fantastic day together on 29th January 2011 in Bramdean Village Hall discerning together God's call for this benefice, the Rector has drawn together a Vision Day summary report which you can read HERE.
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Harvest Photos:

Experience Harvest

Exhibition at
St Michael's church, Cheriton.
See photos of
some displays here.



Big Benefice
Harvest Supper
& Barn Dance
16th October
Middle Farm Barn
Cheriton.
See Photos Here. _________________________________

New Upper Itchen Care Talks

A new series of talks has started this Autumn, organised by members of the Upper Itchen Voluntary Care Group. The talks will be by experts in the fields of community care, health, and other related subjects. Please come along and support, and bring everybody with you who you think might be interested. The first talk was a great success in October: Jenny Meadows, the Manager of Winchester Citizens Advice Bureau (CAB), talked about how the CAB operates, and various issues surrounding benefits, day-to-day care, resources available etc. Next talk will be early in the new year - watch this news page for details .
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Big Benefice Easter Egg Hunt

April 2010
Thanks for coming along everybody - great to see so many people, and thanks to Mr and Mrs Cooper for letting us run across their perfect egg hunt fields, and to Jane Jarman and Jo Tyler for the coffees, and all the great cake bakers. There was too much good chatting for the Easter quiz this year, so it's being saved for next year!
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Benefice Pilgrimage to Wells
Saturday 7th November 2009 a group from the Benefice, led by Angus Macpherson, had a wonderful trip to Wells Cathedral.

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OLDER NEWS from the BENEFICE:
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See News from the Past here