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a message from the mayor CYCLe rePAIrS

Mayor of Swindon Steve Wakefield conveys his seasons’ greetings Free collection
Christmas is a great Christian Festival: it is the time when Christians celebrate that, when things seemed & delivery from
at their darkest, hope and new life came quietly into the world to change the way people lived. home or work
It also allows a period in the year because they are in places of war,
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30 years on, what do you think able people who are aged or ill
and live alone. Those outside these
of The Link now? shores who are subjected to famine,
war or natural disasters also need
In December 1978 people who had moved into the first 500 homes of our help.
what was then called the ‘Western Expansion Area’ picked up a new I have learnt during this year
but unnamed publication from their doormats. that there is much valuable work Serving Swindon
Geoff and Kathy Richmond with their baby daughter Kaziya spent being done by people of all faiths for 90 years
several evenings pushing a pram around Toothill loaded with an 18 page and from all walks of life, and I am
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on we’re still here doing the same thing to a much wider audience and our community who all year round We have the answers
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