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Churches Together in Eastleigh & Bishopstoke |
We actually do some activities, besides linking our member churches and co-ordinating joint worship meetings.
Here is a summary of the activities with which we are involved or help support . . .
We firmly believe that prayer does change things and this is backed up by our experiences of answered prayer.
Yes, we do requests, so send in your requests to us.
Alternatively, visit the SpecificPrayer web site, which is run by local Christians.
The first Saturday of the month we unite with members of Chandlers Ford churches for a Prayer Breakfast.
It is a time to meet, pray together and share breakfast, starting at 8:30 am and meeting in a different location each time.
Check the Diary of Events for the where the next one will be held, or contact Phil Sheppard on 023-8026-1172.
Basics Bank will help supply emergency food supplies to people who suddenly and unexpectedly lose theirs.
Run by Southampton aid agency SCRATCH with a lot of support from local churches and church members, help is provided free to people referred by other organisations.
ECRGS is a scheme that is able to offer limited financial support to certain homeless people to help them gain accommodation in Eastleigh.
Our partners in this scheme are Eastleigh Borough Council,
Eastleigh Community Services and the
Citizens’ Advice Bureau.
If you want help from the scheme or can offer your time to help others, call Alan Broadhurst on 023-8025-3648.
Offer a helping hand in times of need with transport to doctors, dentists, hospital or similar appointments,
with shopping and collecting prescriptions, and for the simple tasks that you can no longer do.
Phone for the help you need, or the help you can offer!
Bishopstoke Good Neighbours
- 023-8069-5484 or 023-8065-3631 or 023-8069-3094
Eastleigh Good Neighbours
- 023-8064-2420
Planning events and exchange visits with Eastleigh’s twin towns of Villeneuve-Saint-Georges and Kornwestheim, working with
Eastleigh Twinning Association. The aim of Twinning is to foster friendship with all the Churches in our group,
to promote an understanding of our Churches’ activities irrespective of language or creed.
To find out more, phone Christine Pullen on 023-8025-2604.
The international charity Christian Aid
has an annual fund raising event in the middle of May is co-ordinated and carried out by teams from our member churches.
Watch out for the little red envelope dropping through your letterbox each year.
Good Friday is traditionally a time when local churches do our own fundraising for Christian Aid.
There is a morning worship service in Eastleigh and another in Bishopstoke when all churches come together
to remember the death of Jesus, and the collection from that goes to Christian Aid.
This is followed by a bread and cheese lunch for a nominal charge, with profits also going to Christian Aid.
For more information about Christian Aid activities in Eastleigh, Bishopstoke and Fair Oak, contact Alain Hunt on 023-8060-1362.
The CAB Service is independent and provides free, confidential and impartial advice to everybody regardless of race, sex, disability or sexuality.
The Service aims to ensure that individuals do not suffer through lack of knowledge of their rights and responsibilities or of the services available to them,
or through an inability to express their needs effectively, and to exercise a responsible influence of the development of social policies and services, both locally and nationally.
Each branch has a Management Team made up of individuals from different backgrounds
to give the best possible mix of skills and draw on the widest possible sources of information to help clients.
This is why Churches Together has Marian Lord (023-8061-3949) as a representative on the Management Team of the Eastleigh
Citizens’ Advice Bureau.
You can visit the Citizens’ Advice Bureau at 101 Leigh Road, Eastleigh or The Old Library, St Johns Road,
Hedge End or G.P. Outreach, Blackthorn Surgery, Station Rd, Netley. For opening hours
follow this link.
Traidcraft works to develop and expand markets for products grown, processed or manufactured by community based groups in poor and disadvantaged workers in developing countries. Encouraging a more responsible use of all resources following the vision of early Christians, working together as a whole body, knowing that if one part suffered, all suffered.
You’ll find our stall in the Coffee Shop at the Wells Place Centre, next to the Swan Centre;
All Saints Church have a stall every Sunday and
St Edwards RC Church have a stall once a month.
Contact Mary Hunt on 023-8060-1362, for a catalogue or further information.
Formed in April 2003, Eastleigh Strategic Partnership
(ESP) is a joining of the main public, private and voluntary organisations that are key service providers to the local community.
Allan Cox (023-8023-7728) represents Churches Together and is to be joined by David Wrighton of IBEX.
Is there anything we might be able to do for you or for your organisation?