HERE is a look at some community events happening in St Helens in the near future.
Open day
PARK Farm Community Centre is hosting an information and advice open day.
This will be held at the Carr Mill venue on Thursday, July 11, from 11am to 1pm.
Come along and meet local organisations who will be on hand to offer support and guidance. These will include Citizens Advice, Torus, Age UK, Ways2Work, Alzheimer’s Society, St Helens Wellbeing, Adult & Community Learning, Halton & St Helens VCA and Advocacy Focus.
Free food and drinks. For information, contact Lorraine on 01744 754367.
Outdoor mass
THERE will be an outside mass at the grounds of the historic Windleshaw Chantry.
The service will take place on Saturday, July 6 starting at 10am.
In 2023, a service was held at the location for the first time in more than eight years, with the time before being on June 21 2015 to commemorate the chantry’s 600th anniversary.
This was after historian Ted Forsyth, whose thorough research into the ‘abbey’, had made the discovery about the building’s origins.
He came across a copy of a letter, dated June 21 1415 to Thomas Gerard Knight, Lord of Windle Manor in St Helens Central Library Archives.
The discovery confirmed the chantry had been built 20 years before it was previously believed and that June of that year (2015) would mark its 600th anniversary.
The grounds’ historical significance includes tomb of Frenchman Jean-Baptiste Francois Graux de la Bruyere, who is responsible for bringing glass making to the town and was the first manager of Ravenhead glassworks.
Get scribbling!
FREE creative writing workshops for those aged nine and over are taking place in Newton-le-Willows on the theme of climate change over summer.
The workshops, thanks to funding from Arts Council England, are taking place in schools, libraries and online to help young people write powerful and inspiring stories which can be included in a published anthology (using recycled paper), displayed in local libraries as well as read out at special storytelling events.
One of the library courses is taking place at Newton-le-Willows Library on Wednesday, July 24, Thursday, July 25 and Friday, July 26 from 10am to noon and bookings are now being taken.
For more information or to book, please contact charles@readnowwritenow.org.uk
Field day
AN annual field day is set to take place this Saturday, July 6 at West Street Independent Methodist Church.
The event will take place from 2.30pm with Parr Band playing throughout the afternoon.
There will be many stalls with prizes, a barbecue and cake stall.
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