The Well Foodbank update 

Thank you so much everyone who is contributing to The Well foodbank, to the marvellous response we have had from the Bart’s family! Sadly our business units are looking the emptiest I have ever seen them, we totally understand the difficulties so many people/families are facing, but rest assured every little helps. We are at a point now that we are short of everything including toiletries, household cleaners, pet food and so the list continues. Please continue to give and encourage or share the word with friends and family - the recipients are so grateful. Your donations whatever amount are, they will be used, please place them in the trolley at the back of church 'It is in giving we receive' Kay Stokes http://thewellwolverhampton.co.uk

Wolverhampton City of Sanctuary Thank you all so much for your donations which are always appreciated and much needed. Always needed are kitchen and household items, children's clothes, toiletries and sanitary products. Special requests this week please for shopping trollies, suitcases, back packs, large cooking pots and pans, food processors/ blenders, children’s toys (that don’t use batteries), clothes for teenage boys.

Please do not deliver to Church.  Please contact Annette Souter on Tel: 07952 777998 or annette_souter@hotmail.com   Thank you very much for your ongoing support. 

Bart’s Butterflies for babies and pre-school children

will not be meeting this week as it is half term. Please join us next Thursday at 1.45pm in the Lady Chapel for lots of singing, stories and fun. All are welcome.

Church Floodlighting:  If you wish the Church to be floodlit in memory of a loved-one or the celebrate a special anniversary, birthday etc, please contact the Parish Office. The cost is only £15 and the Church is lit from dusk to midnight.

Thank you   A massive Thank you to everyone on behalf of St Bart’s Church for your kind donations towards the raffle at the time of the Coronation. It was a great success raising £550 towards the organ fund. We hope that we can call on your generosity again.

The Church Hall is open for parties – for further details, please contact Donna Williams on 07546 527300.

Flower Festival 

24th – 25th June 

Plants always sell well at our Festival.

Would you be kind enough please to contact Ann Quigley if you have any surplus plants from your own garden. Plant contributions can be made at any time, please bring them into church labelled Ann Quigley please. 

Ann is also happy to collect, please contact her on 01902 331509.

We would appreciate all sorts of cakes please for the Festival both large and small both to sell and to use for refreshments. If you are able to help please contact Margaret Mottram on 07495 159635 or Anne Edwards 337478.

The Friends of St Bart’s invite you to an historical evening. Revd Ben will tell you his version of our wonderful church in Penn.

Date:  Friday 23rd June 2023

Time:  7.00pm

Price:  Free for all existing Members of Friends and £10 for everyone else.

The price includes a glass of bubbly, a short serenade by our choir and a sneak preview of the flower festival.

If you wish to attend please either contact…

Sue in Parish Office on 01902 576809 or Anne Edwards on 01902 337478. 

Alternatively, you can just turn up on the night and pay cash on the door but we prefer to know in advance for catering purposes!

We look forward to seeing you on Friday 23rd June.

Most of you will be aware that we now have pew cushions on all the pews in the Church. They look fantastic and feel so comfortable. The Pew Cushion Committee are delighted that so many people have commented on them and we thank E Marsh Upholsterers for their amazing work and help in carrying out this project. If any members of the congregation wish to make a personal donation towards the cushions, cheques can be made payable to St Bartholomew's PCC and endorsed on the back "Pew Cushions" Thank you Barbara, Jill and Anne.