2026

Brief diary dates for 2026; more details to be added to the diary pages for the month as they are made available.  Entries in italics = awaiting confirmation

December: Christmas Day, Friday 25 December

November: First Sunday in Advent, 29 November

October: Harvest Festivals, Preacher Exchange; 

September: Harvest Festivals; see also Wolds and Coast churches festival (FB) 

August: Feast of the Assumption, Saturday 15/8; Holiday Clubs

July: Sea Sunday 12/7; Thursday 2 July - Monday 31 August: 'Threads Through the Bible - Creation + Cross + Revelation' by Jacqui Parkinson Textiles (FB) at Lincoln Cathedral (FB)

June: Flower Festivals

May: Flower Festivals; Spalding Flower Parade 9/5; Moulton Chapel Tuliptime Village Festival and Parade; Thy Kingdom Come; Ascension Day, 14/5; Thy Kingdom Come; Pentecost Sunday 24/5; Christian Aid Week; Medjugorje - more info via Sacred Heart & St Gilbert, Bourne (FB); see also West Lindsey May Churches Festival (FB)

April: Palm Sunday, 29/3; Good Friday, 3/4; Easter Day, Resurrection Sunday, 5/4; Spring Harvest

March: WWDP 'I will give you rest - come' WDP Resources; Ecumenical Lent groups (tbc); Mothering Sunday 15/3; Palm Sunday 29/3

February: Candlemas, Monday 2/2; Racial Justice Sunday 8/2; World Day of Prayer (WWDP) preparation day, ; Snowdrop walks

January: WPCU, 18-25 January - 'There is one body an one Spirit...' WCC: "prayers and reflections for the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity were prepared by the Inter-Church Relations Department of the Armenian Apostolic Church.  The theme for the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity for 2026 comes from Apostle Paul’s letter to the Ephesians: “There is one body and one Spirit, just as you were called to the one hope of your calling” (Eph. 4:4)" (World Council of Churches) see also CTBI; CTSD AGM, Preacher Exchange

See also our Churches Together Facebook page Hope4Spalding for further news and links

Ecumenical prayer meetings are on the first Thursday of each month at 6:00pm for an hour, hosted by Broad Street Methodist (FB); see also Prayer for Spalding (FB)