August 2023

A selection of events as advised by churches across the area; please contact us to add or update details. Services, events, dates and times are subject to late changes - please check with the church for latest details, reserving or booking places or tickets,  See also our News pages and Facebook page 'Hope4Spalding'. Apologies for errors and omissions. Bold = ecumenical events supported or organised by churches working together; Entries in italics = awaiting confirmation


Thursday 31 August, 10:00am: Summer Fun 'Mega Miracles', crafts, games, activities and stories with Elloe East Youth & Children's Work at St Matthew's, Sutton Bridge (FB) ACNY 

Thursdays 17, 24 & 31 August, 2:00pm: Summer Fun - Crafts, Games & Story afternoons, St Mary's, Whaplode (FB) ACNY

Wednesday 30 August, 2:00pm: Churches Together in East Elloe, Holy Trinity, Holbeach

Tuesday 29 August, 10:00am: Summer church club 'Mega Miracles', crafts, games, activities and stories with Elloe East Youth & Children's Work in Sutton St James, organised by at Sutton St James church and  Sutton St James Baptist (FB)


Saturday 26 - Monday 28 August, Flower and Craft Festival 'Blessèd are the Peacemakers'; 26/8 2:00pm: Spalding U3A singing group; 26/8. & 28/8 afternoons: guitar music; 28/8, 11:00am: organ recital, Gosberton Baptist (FB) PE11 4NP

Saturday 26 - Monday 28 August, Flower Festival 'Musicals', St Matthew's, Eye (FB), PE6 7UZ

Saturday 26 August, 3:00pm: Welcome service for Rev Angy Long, Chair of the Lincolnshire Methodist District (FB, FB group), at Side Door Methodist, Grimsby (FB); live streaming also at Broad Street Methodist (FB) (Circuit website)

Friday 25 - Monday 28 August: 'Flower Festivals through the Years', Crowland Abbey St Mary & St Bartholomew & St Guthlac (FB) ACNY

Friday 25 - Monday 28 August, Flower Festival 'Journeys', St Nicholas, Lutton (FB) PE12 9HP

Thursdays 24 & 31 August, 10:00am: Summer Fun 'Mega Miracles', crafts, games, activities and stories with Elloe East Youth & Children's Work at St Matthew's, Sutton Bridge (FB) ACNY 

Thursdays 24 & 31 August, 2:00pm: Summer Fun - Crafts, Games & Story afternoons, St Mary's, Whaplode (FB) ACNY

Wednesday 23 August, 10:00am: Poppy Get Together at Bicker Methodist (FB) (Circuit website)

Tuesday 22 & 29 August, 10:00am: Summer church club 'Mega Miracles', crafts, games, activities and stories with Elloe East Youth & Children's Work in Sutton St James, organised by at Sutton St James church and  Sutton St James Baptist (FB)

Tuesday 22 August, 2:00pm: Moulton Mothers' Union Garden Party; more info via All Saints, Moulton (2023 FB) ACNY

Monday 21 - Thursday 24 August, 10:00am: Holiday Club 'Polar Explorers', Spalding Baptist (FB)


Sunday 20 August, 9:45am: Service time changes at Bourne Salvation Army (FB) and St John the Baptist, Morton in the Ringstone in Aveland Group (FB) (Women's Wolrd Cup)

Sunday 20 August, 1:00pm: Benefice picnic at Moulton Vicarage; more info via All Saints, Moulton (FB) ACNY (Elloe Stone group)

Saturday 19 August, 9:30am: Who let the Dads out, Crowland Methodist (FB, FB public group) (Peterborough Circuit)

Saturday 19 August, 10:00am: Hunstanton church outing, £10, Spalding Baptist (FB)

Saturday 19 August, 2:00pm: Ordination service for Rev Sue Hensby, Sutton St James Baptist (FB) PE12 0EE

Thursdays 17, 24 & 31 August, 10:00am: Summer Fun 'Mega Miracles', crafts, games, activities and stories with Elloe East Youth & Children's Work at St Matthew's, Sutton Bridge (FB) ACNY 

Thursdays 17, 24 & 31 August, 2:00pm: Summer Fun - Crafts, Games & Story afternoons, St Mary's, Whaplode (FB) ACNY

Tuesday 15 August, Feast of the Assumption

Tuesdays 15, 22 & 29 August, 10:00am: Summer church club 'Mega Miracles', crafts, games, activities and stories with Elloe East Youth & Children's Work in Sutton St James, organised by at Sutton St James church and  Sutton St James Baptist (FB)


Sunday 13 August, 11:00am: Joint service with Crowland Methodist (FB, FB public group) (Peterborough Circuit) at Crowland Abbey (FB) ACNY (previously advertised as 10:30am)

Sunday 13 August, 3:00pm: Afternoon Tea, music, £5, St Mary's, Sutterton (FB) ACNY

Saturday 12 August, 10:00am: Car Boot Sale, Gosberton Clough Methodist (FB) (Circuit website)

Friday 11 August, 10:00am for 10:30am: Coffee and Cake - and find out more on the work of Open The Book at Priory Church Hall, Deeping St James (FB);  organised by Churches Together in the Deepings (FB)

Wednesday 9 August, 10:00am for 10:15am: Mothers' Union Coffee Morning following short service, St Firmin's church hall, Thurlby (FB) or The Ness Group

Wednesday 9 August, 10:30am: Family Get-together on the Parkway grassed area; more info via, St John the Baptist, Hawthorn Bank, Spalding (FB)


Sunday 6 August, 9:15am: Patronal Festival, St Laurence, Surfleet (FB)

Sunday 6 August, 9:30am: Morning worship at Deeping St Nicholas, (FB) ACNY - and at 3:00pm: Harvest Festival at Chapel Farm field, PE11 3DS 

Sunday 6 August, from 11:00am: Deepings Raft Race (FB): Deepings churches with stalls include  St Guthlac's RC (FB); the Churches Together in the Deepings (FB) stall is not going ahead (30/7)

Thursday 3 August,  6:00pm: for an hour: Ecumenical prayer meeting for the wider church and community, hosted by Broad Street Methodist