St Mary's Church, Ilkeston: NOTICE BOARD

NOTICE BOARD

REMINDER

The Vicar's day off is Tuesday so please do not contact him on this day unless it is an emergency. Thank you.

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ContactMost subscribers to the ‘Contact’ magazine have now made a donation and the editor would like to thank everyone for their generous contributions. In particular, the church has received two very generous donatio Contact magazine ns – one of £100 (a regular annual donation in recent years from one of our subscribers) and another of £50 which was specifically sent towards the maintenance of the photocopier, which has been struggling with the workload!

If you have yet to make a donation for your subscription to Contact please pass it on to Stella Petitt or one of the Churchwardens. Please also let us know if you, or anyone you know, would like to start receiving a Contact Magazine regularly.

THE KING'S CUPBOARD

Thank you to everyone who puts items of food in the box for the King’s Cupboard. It is a very worthwhile thing to do. The food is taken regularly to the food bank and really appreciated. There are leaflets available explaining more about the work that they are doing at the Foodbank and how people can get involved.

King's Cupboard Occasionally someone has left a bag of food outside the vestry door which is presumably for the King’s Cupboard. However, many of the items have been past their use-by date and have had to be thrown away. Please could all food donated be in date and brought into the church or the Cantelupe Centre, and handed into the office, and not left outside. Thank you.

GIFT AID

Gift Aid enables the Church to reclaim tax which has been paid on any gift to the Church. If you do not already take part in this please consider whether you can help in this way.

USED STAMPS

Trevor Beighton would like to thank everyone who has brought their used stamps and put them in the box in the church foyer over the past year. These are passed on to the Church Mission Society and help to fund their work. Please continue to support the CMS in this way over the coming year, and please remember to leave a good margin around the stamps. Many thanks.

THE CHURCH BOILER

When the church boiler stopped working in January 2008, it seemed that the 70 year old boiler had reached the end of its economical life and would need to be replaced at a cost of in the region of £35,000. In addition, the boiler experts could not guarantee that any new high-pressure boiler would be compatible with the existing heating pipes which were anything up to 100 years old. This would necessitate the expenditure of an additional £35,000 and would completely wipe out our capital reserves. So an enormous debt of gratitude is owed to Peter Hodson who has spent many hours in discussion with the experts and even more in the boiler house. His hard work and dedication has brought the old boiler back to life with a few minor adjustments but the solution to the problem has only been deferred and not solved completely. What is certain though is that eventually the expenditure of something in the region of £70,000 will be necessary so every member of the church is extremely grateful to the anonymous donor who presented our Treasurer with a cheque for £20,000 as a starter for the "Church Boiler Fund". Whilst we cannot expect donations like everyday, if you are able to help in any way and with any amount, please speak to Churchwarden Peter Hodson.

NOTICE BOARD

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