Join us at 12:00 in the Parish Rooms on Sunday 19th May for a delicious homemade soup lunch and help us to support Christian Aid. Everybody is welcome!

Berkhamsted Deanery Lecture 2019 with Rev Lucy Winkett - Good News or Fake News? Thursday May 23rd at St Mary’s Northchurch at 7.45pm A Christian perspective on broadcasting in echo chambers and filter bubbles, facing the challenge of a 24 hour news cycle. Lucy Winkett is Rector of St James’s Church Piccadilly and a regular broadcaster on Radio 4 and Radio 3. She writes regularly for the national press and is a contributing editor to the news startup Tortoise Media, attemptin

After three months of scaffolding and building work, the roof on St Mary’s has been replaced and at the end of April there will be a Service of Thanksgiving in the church. We were hoping that all the scaffolding would be down by Easter but it this work is being done at a slow tempo. There has been a range of fund-raising initiatives over the last year to help raise the funds and thank you to everyone who has been involved and contributed. By way of contrast as we were thinkin

Keep up to date with the latest Parish news in the May 2019 edition of the Parish Newsletter. If you have any advertising or editorial queries please direct these to Editor, Jill Hipson.

From modest beginnings, the much loved Markyate Plant Sale has raised nearly £95,000 for the Hospice of St Francis in Berkhamsted. And this year we’re pulling out all the stops to celebrate the hospice’s 40th Birthday and raise even more for this wonderful local resource. The sale will be held on Saturday 18th May from 10am in the picturesque gardens of 64 High Street, Markyate, AL3 8HZ. In readiness for the sale over 7,000 popular annual bedding plants, as well as some colou

In the assemblies this week the children have been thinking about their favourite smells. These included flowers, freshly mown grass and one of my favourites freshly baked bread. I have least favourite smells: a few weeks ago, in the Rectory I was smelling in a room and thought what is that? The evidence was a pigeon left in a corner of the room and it was a present from Jack the cat. Interestingly there are references to the sense of smell in days story as we are told “the h

Saturday 27th April at 3pm in St Mary’s Church Please come and join us for a dedication and thanksgiving service for the new roof followed by celebratory cup of tea, coffee and cake, or maybe even a glass of Prosecco! Hope to see you there! Evelyn

It was great to welcome the school on Friday for the Mother’s Day service and in the Diocese at the moment there is a focus on the importance of Church Schools. Sometimes I hear folk who say we really want our child to go to a church school and although they may not be religious themselves, they appreciate the values that a church school will teach. Church schools can be associated with values and ethics that will make you a better person. I think all schools are concerned wi