News from Clitheroe United Reformed Church

Clitheroe United Reformed Church is now part of the East Lancashire Missional Partnership of ten churches including Clitheroe, Burnley and Blackburn among others. Recent News The Rev Adam Woodthorne is already working in the partnership and is soon to be joined by the Rev Gilbert Esambé. Both ministers will work across the partnership but the…

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St. Mary’s Playgroup

St. Mary’s Playgroup welcomes parents and carers with pre-school age children from 9.15 am – 11am on Mondays during school term time. There are lots of different activities going on and it’s a chance for children to socialise and play together, and for parents and carers to have a chat. Part way through the session…

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New series of lunchtime organ recitals

Tuesday lunchtime organ concerts will begin again on the 3rd October. Our Director of Music, David Thornton, will play a programme of popular organ music and some arrangements of orchestral music, beginning at 1.00pm and lasting about 40 minutes. Admission is free, but donations are kindly requested. David hopes that we will be able to…

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Harvest Festival

Please help us to support Ribble Valley Food Bank. The Food Bank needs: Tinned vegetables,  tinned potatoes,  sponge puddings,  long life fruit juice,  long life milk,  soap bars,  shaving foam/razors,  toothbrushes,  laundry liquid/powder/gel,  fruit juice (carton),  soup,  pasta sauces,  cereals,  tinned rice pudding,  tea bags, instant coffee,  instant mashed potato,  rice,  tinned meat,  tinned fish, …

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Salt and Light

What a great performance by LAMPS on Friday evening! Here are some of Eva Kahan’s photos.         What’s Next? Come along to St. Mary Magdalene’s on Thursday, October 5th for a discussion about the issues raised…

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William Byrd – 400th anniversary

  On Sunday 9th July St. Mary’s choir will be singing William Byrd’s well know motet  ‘Ave Verum Corpus’ Byrd died on the 4th July 1623 so we celebrate his 400th anniversary. He is considered to be England’s most important Renaissance composer.Thought to have been born about 1540, little is known about his childhood although…

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