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Bishop of Winchester welcomes Government Further Education and Skills White Paper
The Bishop of Winchester, the Rt Revd Dr Tim Dakin, lead bishop for Further and Higher Education, has welcomed the recent publication of a White Paper which aims to...
Boyatt Pharmacy and St Peter’s Church ready to start vaccinating 2,000 people a week.
St Peter’s Church, Boyatt Wood Eastleigh is playing a key role in the Hampshire COVID-19 vaccination effort. With the NHS COVID-19 vaccination programme well underway local communities and businesses...
Bournemouth church provides over 250 Christmas emergency food supply parcels
The Parish of Winton, Moordown and Charminster* thanks to funds from the Church Revitalisation Trust’s Love Your Neighbour campaign (CRT) was able to provide over 250 emergency food parcels...
COVID Vaccination Scam Alert
There have been reports of a new scam where a person receives a text saying they need to book a vaccination appointment and it takes them to a fake...
Hope breaks through prison bars this Christmas
A Christmas Day carol service, made by HMP Winchester and local churches, is to be broadcast into almost every cell of each of 50 prisons nationwide. The service, featuring...
The Bishop of Winchester Christmas Message 2020
We all know that this year’s Christmas celebrations will be different. For many families, there will be no celebration, as they come to terms with spending Christmas without their...
Announcement of the death of the former Dean of Winchester
On Saturday 12 December, Winchester Cathedral announced the death of the former Dean of Winchester, the Very Reverend James Atwell. James passed away at home in Cambridge, with his...
A Christmas Message from the Bishop of Winchester
The Right Reverend Tim Dakin, Bishop of Winchester, has shared his Christmas message for 2019, inviting people to donate to his Christmas Appeal for the charity Yellow Door. The full...
Diocese of Winchester and Southampton City Council celebrate the successful move of St. Mark’s C of E
Progress at Southampton’s first all-through school has reached a major milestone in the project with the start of demolition works on the existing school building. Pupils at St. Mark’s...