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46 The Link Magazine • Jan 2003
Remembering injustice
SWINDON
The Mayor of Swindon Coun Stan Pajak will plant a tree of memory
FAMILY CHURCH in Faringdon Road Park to mark the third Holocaust Memorial Day
y vange j. on Monday 27 January, witnessed by representatives from faith
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00 Worsley Road Ca^ WEST communities, schools and community groups.
The day remembers past and Throughout the week there will
SUNDAYS 10.30AM present human rights tragedies be a display of appropriate books
am n VARIOUS LOCATIONS around the world. in Swindon's Central Library and
Ly m m ^^8 AspeakerwilltalkonHolocaust an exhibition in the foyer of the
building with people For details visit our website themes at the Friends Meeting Civic Offices in Euclid Street.
Come and join us at www.sfc-uk.org, House, Eastcott Hill, at midday. www.holocaustmemorialday.gov.uk
Sunday at I Dam & 6.30pm
For further information of call Nigel on 849731
other meetings ring: 873050, call or e-mail
into the Church office or visit A year in a foreign land
www.freshbrook.org [email protected] Rev Ruth Cram looks back over the last twelve months since she
fetus said. -1 have ionic that YOU might in association with started work in North Swindon.
Acme LIFE and hats it in iii dulness'' NEW FRONTIERS INTERNATIONAL
'Swindon is another country' about settling in a completely new
commented a friend when I told area before the infrastructure is in
her that I had been appointed as place and aboutestablishing a com-
West Swindon & the Anglican Priest Missioner and munity from scratch.
Incumbant Designate. The remit By placing a new church and a
Lydiards churches was to lead the congregation at St Church of England Primary School
Andrew's Little Blunsdon, Lady in Taw Hill, it is hoped that the
Lane, and to start a new congrega- local and wider area will be served
All Saints' For details c tion at Taw Hill. in many ways by a lively and grow-
Lydiard Millicent Living just a few miles away, in ing congregation, in Jesus Christ's
our weekly
Cirencester, then moving lastJanu- name. Also that Christian values
Holy Trinity, Shaw services ary to Swindon, I found that al- will be explicit in a welcoming,
though not another inclusive school and
St Mary's please country, it is a church at the heart
contact the
Lydiard Tregoze marked contrast to of the community.
Partnership Office. 874221 the surrounding ' ' 2002 had many
Toothill Church country towns and rich moments: ten-
e-mail:
Westlea Church partnershipoftice@ ht openworld.conu villages of Glouces- derness and tears as
tershire and Wilt- marriage vows were
shire. made, joy and won-
Taw Hill feels like der as babies, chil-
a strange place in dren and adults
which to live and were baptised, the
work. The nearest sadness of funerals,
shops and schools the fun of parties,
are some distance toddlers and toys on
• • 1 . away, so are nearly all the facilities Mondays at Taw Hill, the disrup-
which would be taken for granted tion of two house moves, the chal-
in more established areas. lenge of a new home and garden,
In July, I had visited friends liv- satisfaction at seeing the high qual-
Community Dividend ing in a wild remote community in ity of people forming the tempo-
northern Canada. Several times peo-
rary governing body for the school.
2003 will be a crucial year for
Scheme pie spoke of their grandparents as Taw Hill and the Northern Devel-
pioneers, suffering separation from
family and friends and enduring opment as decisions about the
A minimum of discomfort for the greater good of school, church and village centre
1% of the opportunity and a brighter future, are made and many new houses
With our beautiful houses and arebuiltandoccupied.Itisaprivi-
Society's profits easy access to food, fuel and cloth- lege to be here at such an exciting
ing, today's pioneering is more and formative time.
are returned'
to projects to
benefit the
I nmuri^ty
local community ^, scheme
Sunday Worship 10.30am
the
throw h th
g
Co op Autumn boost for LEAVES (Local \ Sunday School and Creche
Community Enterprise And Vocational Employment Meeting at Greenmeadow Prima ry School
Dividend Scheme) which provdes employment Greenmeadow
opportunities via a mobile gardening service NS BC Prima ry School
Scheme, and conservation projects in Swindon.
Co-ordinator Anne Billingham with Martin Alley.
one of those taking part in the LEAVES initiative
If you think a project you know of could qualify for Dan A—
a grant of up to £ 1,000, call 0800 435902
Whitworth Rd 0 84006
for more information
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