Take a break from the hustle and bustle in Stockport Town Centre and join us for an informal Carol Service followed by festive refreshments in the community cafe area. The church will remain open for private prayer, reflection and candle lighting for an hour after the service so you can take time out to focus on the true meaning of Christmas.
1pm Service
Open until 3pm
Best wishes for a happy and healthy Christmas from all at St Peter’s!
St Peter’s will be open from 10am – 1pm for a 1940s themed tea party, and take part in the national two-minutes silence at 12noon at our war memorial.
Enjoy tea, coffee or cold drinks and cakes in our cafe area with 1940s music and traditional games.
Share memories of days gone by at our new ‘memories chat’ table with old pictures/books etc to spark conversations with new friends.
Read the harrowing stories of church members who never returned from the horrific Japanese prisoner of war camps, and whose names are forever remembered on our war memorial.
Take time out for quiet reflection/prayer or light a candle in the peaceful, traditional church.
Apart from a worthy date to remember, we hope the event will act as a successful pilot with a view to reopening our cafe area on a permanent basis. Volunteers wuld be most welcome to help us to achieve this and provide a cheap & cheerful space for people to socialise and take time out for prayer/reflection.
St. Peter’s is looking forward to an exciting future within the centre of regeneration in Stockport, with hundreds more residents destined to live in the parish for the first time in many years. We’d like to know what you would find useful, interesting, and worth coming to the church for. This is an opportunity for you to give us your suggestions so we can incorporate them into our fututre plans and activities. We previously ran a similar questionnaire five years ago but plans were interrupted by the Covid-19 pandemic. Now we can start to move forward again, and need your help to make sure we provide what you want.
Your responses to the survey monkey questionnaire below will help us arrange events but also guide our major plans for the future. Thank you!
https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/HBLPMX6
The questionnaire is also avaliable in a paper version from the church.
Come and join us for a VE Day 80th Anniversary celebration on the day
Thursday 8th May
4.30pm – 7pm
Bring a picnic & your own cold drinks – hot drinks available.
Music from the period, traditional games and a wartime kitchen display.
Sample some ration busting 1940s party recipes with quirky sandwich fillings and cakes including a ‘War Cake’ from an original recipe.
We will be ringing the bell as part of the national bell ringing celebration at 6.30pm
New research into our war memorial names will be revealed, with just three communicants from St Peter’s remembered on our memorial for World War Two. Nothing has been remembered or written about them until now.
Also, our free monthly organ concert will follow a VE Day 80 theme, so come along on Saturday May 10th May 10am – 1pm to continue the party!
Free indoor event, please contact us with any enquiries and to give us an idea of numbers attending.
Tuesday March 4th 11am – 2pm
Working with Groundwork who will be holding an event in St Peter’s Square at the same time, we will be holding a graveyard tidy event for anyone who wants to get involved and spruce up St Peter’s graveyard. Free refreshments will be available for volunteers, and onsite toilets of course.
Many gravestones are unreadable at the moment, but are fascinating to see and research. The earliest stone is from 1768 when Mary Wolstoncroft was buried on the 19th June. We hope this event, if successful will be the first of many so we can make the local area look better, and rediscover some of the fascinating hidden tales the churchyard has to offer.
We apologise for any disappointment but the organ concert on Saturday 10th August has been cancelled. Back to normal for September 14th 10am – 1pm when we also have our Heritage Open Days exhibition.
Instead, why not attend the Plaza Coffee Morning from 11am – 2pm on Saturday 10th August where you can hear Andrew Moody, Gilly Oselton, Anthony Brookes and Ian Gander playing the Mighty Compton Organ?
With the end of Lent and the celebration of our Risen Lord fast approaching, here are our Easter service times for you to make a note of and hopefully come and join us – all are welcome!
Psalm 33:20-22 We wait in hope for the Lord; he is our help and our shield. In him our hearts rejoice, for we trust in his holy name. May your unfailing love be with us, Lord, even as we put our hope in you.
Join us on Sunday May 7th for our Coronation Big Lunch. 12pm after the service.
All welcome, bring a picnic lunch to eat in our street party themed cafe. Hot drinks available.
More info to follow…
With the end of Lent and the celebration of our Risen Lord fast approaching, here are our Easter service times for you to make a note of and hopefully come and join us – all are welcome! please note there will be no organ concert for April as it falls on Holy Saturday.
Psalm 33:20-22 We wait in hope for the Lord; he is our help and our shield. In him our hearts rejoice, for we trust in his holy name. May your unfailing love be with us, Lord, even as we put our hope in you.
A new group funded by Stockport MBC’s Warm Spaces scheme will be starting to meet from Tuesday 22nd November at 2pm – 4.30pm in St. Peter’s Cafe area. The Yoruba Womens’ Cultural Heritage Forum invites everyone to join in and share heritage stories, swap books in our library corner, chat, craft and have fun.
12 Tuesdays on specific dates from Tuesday November 22nd until Tuesday 28th March (These dates are not every week so contact before booking is essential.)
Free refreshments available in a warm, happy safe place. Please contact us to book a place as there is limited space. For more information please contact Annette on 07799418873, St Peter’s Church on 0161 476 5090 (please leave a message) or email: yorubawomencultureheritage@gmail.com
