Bulletin - 19th March 2017

Post date: Mar 16, 2017 6:39:56 PM

PARISH REGISTER – If you have changed or have a new mobile telephone number or email address please complete a Parish Register Form available at the back of church and hand to Fr. Harriott. Thank You

NEW PARISHIONERS - If you are a new member of the parish, would you please make yourself known to Fr. Harriott or a member of the Parish Council and complete a form available at the back of church.

OFFERTORIES - £551.81 Family Fast Day Collection for CAFOD

19^th Mar. 2017 Readers – V. Rooker & K. Dawson Ems – S. Muir, T. Robson & J. Kingston

Teas – Heather & Peter Farrier

26^th Mar. 2017 Readers – Youth Readers Ems – V. Rooker, B. Wareing & A. Hall

Teas – Kathleen & Kevin Dawson

WALKING TOGETHER IN HOPE – The Cuddy's Corse Walk, today Sunday 19^th March 2017. Chester-le-Street to Durham via Finchale Priory. Please see the notice board for additional information.

MOTHERING SUNDAY 26^th MARCH 2017 – Next Sunday, the Youth/Children of the Partnership will be taking part in the Mass as Readers and taking the Offertory procession.

FTiH PARTNERSHIP – A Partnership Mass at 7pm. Followed by a social evening at 8pm will be held at the Sacred Heart Parish Hall, North Gosforth on Friday 31^st March 2017 Please see the poster in the porch.

COFFEE AFTERNOONS – The next two Coffee Afternoons will be on Thurs. 20^th April and Thurs. 11^th May 2017.

at 1.30pm. These are open to ALL, not just parishioners, Please come along and invite a friend and/or your neighbour.

FUTURE EVENTS – These are detailed on the back of the Newsletter and (if space is available) will also be mentioned on the front of the Newsletter nearer their date. When available, posters will also be displayed on our noticeboard.

TAX CHANGES 2017, DOES IT AFFECT YOUR GIFT AID STATUS – From April 2017 the personal Income Tax allowance will increase to £11500 per annum and the first £1000 of interest recieved from banks, building societies etc., as well as £5000 dividend income will be exempt from tax (for basic rate tax payers).

This is great news for some of us, but makes it important that those of us who are in the Gift Aid Scheme should check that we still be a taxpayer from April 2017.

If you will then no longer be a taxpayer, you will then be unable to remain in the Gift Aid Scheme and should advise the Diocese accordingly. Anyone unsure of their situation should contact Derek Harrison (Parish Gift Aid Organiser) either by tel. 01670 715271 or email derek.harrison1949@hotmail.com All queries will be treated confidentially.

PLANNED GIVING/GIFT AID – Your envelopes are available for collection at the back of church. Envelopes have been provided this year for those paying by Direct Debit, to include special collection envelopes.

We hope to modify the boxes next year.

Anyone requiring a box of envelopes, please speak to Gerry Killen or Derek Harrison

EVENING CHRONICLE TOKENS – With your help, a total of 210700 tokens were collected. £2530.25 Charity Funding was awarded to the Air Ambulance. Many thanks from Jan Memola who collected the vouchers on behalf of the parish.

ADDITIONAL PARISH & DIOCESAN INFORMATION- can be obtained from the Parish website https://sites.google.com/site/stjohnsannitsford. Anyone experiencing problems accessing the site,

please contact Jerry Laidler on 07801 452372

St. Patrick’s Night Ceilidh - A BIG THANK YOU

To all of you who came along and supported this event and made it a great success. We hope you enjoyed meeting new people across your partnership.

We would also like to thank the businesses who supported and made this event possible by their kind donations:

• • The Benedictine Catholic club for providing an excellent venue,

  • Veeam software for their kind gift of £100 Amazon voucher,

  • Blue Reef Aquarium for their Family Membership and family day passes

  • Danielle Park for her generous ‘Forever Living’ gifts

  • And of course the excellent and rather fabulous children of the Irish Dancing School, Marshall Academy.

Again, a huge thank you - #GodBless+

Family Mass – Mothering Sunday – Sunday 26th March - 9.30am Mass @ St John’s NEXT weekend will be a family Mass led by our young people with some joining StJohns YPC from our partnership parish of Sacred Heart – which is wonderful and I am sure we will make them most welcome. It would be lovely to see you there, your support as always, is very much appreciated.

Coin-It-In Cans for CAFOD – Thank you to all who ‘donated’ empty beer cans (including the ones that were full J). At the back of church are cans for anyone to take away and put SMALL change in. Our hope is to encourage children and families to give something small to StJohns YPC appeal to raise £750 for a community water supply in a village in Africa that CAFOD support.

UPDATE – StJohns YPC DVD – Thank you for all those who showed an interest in buying this DVD. We intend to create the DVD and distribute at Easter. One of the reasons for the delay is that the YPC hope to make additional videos of the Stations of the Cross. So again thanks for your patience and sorry for our delay.

StJohns YPC Allotment - It’s that time of year again J - Over the next few weeks StJohns YPC will be handing out FREE seeds for you to grow on your windowsills or in StJohns YPC allotment – Let’s hope for a bumper year J

Red Poppy Seeds Appeal – If you happen to have some spare packets of red poppy seeds then StJohns YPC would love to have them for a WWI & WWII initiative they’re hoping to plan – details to follow J

An Invitation from Sacred Heart – Our New Partnership Member :)

Partnership Social Evening at Sacred Heart - open to all parishioners of all ages within the partnership and chance again to get to know each other in an informal setting – and Sacred Heart will supply the beverages & nibbles J

This will be held on Friday 31st March at Sacred Heart Parish Hall starting with Mass at 7pm at Sacred Heart (PLEASE NOTE: There will be NO Mass at St. John’s on Friday 31st)

List at back of church so please provide your name and contact details.

Know of any community focused event/activity, then please let us know and we will try our best to publicise.