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Supervisor Vacancy Easter celebrated with a donkey
The Rock Café
at St John’s Church

The café in Haydon Wick has been at the heart of the community
for nearly five years and serves high quality food at low prices,
produced and served by a team of volunteers.
A part time supervisor is required to oversee the café and shop on
Fridays and alternate Saturdays, 8.30am to 2.30pm, and to plan the rotas
Catering and supervisory experience required;
experience of working with volunteers would be beneficial.
Hours: Between 10 and 16 hours a week at £7.85 per hour.
For the job description and person specification contact
Janice Heath, Church Administrator on 01793 726000
or email: [email protected] St Francis Church of England Primary School in Taw Hill remembered the
Deadline for submissions: Thursday 21 May, 12 noon Easter message with the help of a live donkey representing the arrival of
Jesus in Jerusalem on Good Friday over two thousand years ago. Children
lined the processional route and a Roman centurion was present to remind
everybody that Israel was under colonial rule in those times.

Crowdys’ children light up special needs
school in Zambia with Rotary Club help

West Swindon and Lydiard Tregoze
Church Partnership
Please join us in worship on Sunday mornings
Westlea Church, Westlea School: 10am Roger Mugridge working with Crowdys Hill children
St Mary’s Lydiard Tregoze
- the church in the park: 10am Youngsters from Crowdys Hill Spe- bwe, Zambia and Kenya to fit solar
cial School have continued to help
lighting units to dozens of schools
Holy Trinity, Shaw: 10.30am special needs children in Zambia in in villages which don’t have mains
Toothill Church: 10.30am a practical way. electricity. It means children have
For details of these and our other services For a second year they’ve taken the opportunity to learn well into
call the Partnership Office on 01793 874221 part in a workshop run by Swindon the evening and adults are able to
charity Lights for Learning. Twenty
engage in education or take part
Email: [email protected] Website: WSwinlyd.org.uk students assembled and tested LED in community activities in remote
Anglican • Baptist • Methodist • United Reformed Church light boxes that will be powered areas after the sun has gone down.
by solar panels connected to car Roger said: “It was amazing how
batteries. The boxes were labelled quickly the children assembled the
St. John’s Haydon Wick with the name of the student who 94 boxes. They were so enthusiastic
about helping, but made sure they
made it, and each completed an
On Thames Avenue all-about-me booklet for children did the job right.
“It’s really lovely that they are also
next door to in Zambia who will send back able to send personal messages to
messages.
Morrisons Crowdys Hill teacher Doug Staff the children who will benefit from
Contact: will be travelling to Zambia in May being able to learn after dark.”
Revd Raymond Adams to work with colleagues as part of The Rotary Club of Cirencester
Tel: 634258 the school’s global partnership and donated £1,000 to fund the project
will fit the lighting units to Kamwi which will see three classrooms and
Sunday 9am Traditional communion service Primary School with local help an office at Kamwi outside the city
Services 11am Eventful, contemporary worship during his visit. of Livingstone fitted with lights.
with children’s groups meeting The Lights for Learning system Roger will be travelling to the
www.stjohnshaydonwick.org.uk was invented by Roger Mugridge country later in the year to set up a
from Cricklade and since 2001 he solar power assembly workshop.
Open to all, serving tea, coffee, cakes & light lunches and volunteers in the charity have Find out more at:
Fridays and Saturdays: 10am - 2pm
paid their way to travel to Zimba- www.lightsforlearning.co.uk
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