The Salvation Army

• 10am - 11:15am Morning Worship

• 11:15am - 12pm Coffee Fellowship

• 11:30am - 12:45pm Sunday Live (Sunday School)

• 11:30am - 12:45pm Pro Fide (Youth Group)

• 5.00pm - see the Special Events section for details of our occassional Sunday Evening activities

• 6:15pm - 8pm Pro Fide Fellowship

• Monday

  • 9:15am - 2:15pm Pre-School during school term time

  • The corps community choir meets on the first and third mondays of each month.  See seperate section below.

• Tuesday​

  • 9.15am - 2.15pm Pre-School during school term time

  • 9:30am - 11:30am  Parent and Toddlers group during school term time, 

  • 7:30pm - 9:00pm Bible Study (Fortnightly) - See seperate section below.

  • House Groups - 3rd Tuesday of the month

• Wednesday

  • 9:15am - 2:15pm Pre-School during school term

  • 12 Noon Food Bank 

  • 12 Noon Lunch Club. The club is currently fully booked please phone the office to be put on the waiting list. 

  • 8pm - 9:30pm Fellowship Band - 3rd Wednesday of each month see Special Events. 

• Thursday

  • 9.15am - 2.15pm Pre-School during school term time

  • 9.15am - 2.15pm Stay and Play ay WANDS Childrens Center (Westlands Estate) for kids of all ages.

  • 12:30am - 2:30pm Luncheon Club. The club is currently fully booked please phone the office to be put on the waiting list.

  • 7pm - 8:15pm Songster practice

  • 8:30pm - 9:45pm Band practice

• Friday

  • 9:15am - 2:15pm Pre-School during school term time

  • 4.15pm Singing Company practice

  • 5pm YP Band Learners 

  • 5:30pm  YP Band practice

Sunday 7th October - Music for an Autumn Evening at 5pm.

Sunday 4th November - Songs of Praise at 5pm CANCELLED

Sunday 11th November - A Remembrance Service at 5pm

If you have any unwanted spectacles please hand them to Barbara Kingston. The specs will be sent to Nicaragua to help those in urgent need of corrective eye care.

Volunteers are needed to help with the Thursday Lunch Club and Parent and Toddlers group.

Pre-School operates 5 days each week during term time. For further information phone/txt 07726 580 149

• Mondays         9.15am till 2.15pm

• Tuesdays        9.15am till 2.15pm

• Wednesdays   9.15am till 2.15pm

• Thursdays       9.15am till 2.15pm

• Fridays           9.15am till 2.15pm

Each Thursday we operate a Play and Stay event at the WANDS Childrens Centre on the Westlands Estate. Please phone using the above telephone number for further details.  

The club is open to all. Annual membership is £5 and the meeting fee is £1 to cover heat light refreshments etc. Visitors £2.

We meet in the upstairs conference room in the rear building of the Salvation Army on the second Monday of each month at 7.30pm

Monday 8th October - a talk by Duncan Coombes.

Monday 12th November -  tba

Report by Michelle Day

In the last few months we have had good talks from various professional gardeners and a brilliant evening at Sarah and Davids garden - formerly of Davids Nursery. We had the garden exclusively to ourselves with Sarah and David on hand to answer questions and we enjoyed a piece of cake and tea or coffee to end the evening. It was one of those beautiful summer evenings we've all enjoyed this year with no rain to spoil our visit.

As a group we have grown to 39 members, a far cry from 8 of us on the opening evening. Financially we are keeping afloat and have enough money in our account to announce a very exiting event for next year. Bob Flowerdew who has presented segments on BBC Gardeners World, a regular on Radio 4's Gardeners Question Time, writes for several gardening magazines and was a forerunner in organic gardening is attending in April next year to speak to us!  We are all very exited about this and are planning to make it a BIG event. If you would to put the date in your diary it will be Monday 8th April 2019 at 7pm.

As last year, we are going to be displaying a tree in the Christmas Tree Festival at St. Andrews church over the festive period. The church will be open every day for people to go and look and you can vote for your favourite tree.

The Care and Share shop is open from Monday to Saturday. We have a selection of good quality clothes, briq-a-brac and furniture for sale and are always grateful for your similar surplus items. The shop is located in St Andrews Street  - for location see the map at the top of the page. 

Donations of good quality clothing and bric-a-brac urgently required.

Please contact for further information

If you have recently suffered a bereavement or are finding it difficult to come to terms with your loss come and join the Bereavment Support Group, people who are in a similar situation to you. The group meets on the second Monday of each month at 10.00am in the Conference room on the first floor of the new building, and on the fourth Monday in the Parish Rooms attached to St. Andrews Church.

Next meeting - Monday 8th October at 10am at the Salvation Army.

The Bible Study and Prayer group will meet at 7.30pm on the 2nd and 4th Tuesday of each month in the Conference Room in the new building. It will not run during school holidays or in December due to the carolling programme. It will start with a Bible Study, the content will be largely based on how we apply the Bible message to our everyday lives and time will be given for prayer at the end of the Bible Study.

Program for 2018

Tuesday 9th October at 7.30pm

Tuesday 13th November.

The Ladiess Fellowship meets at irregular intervals, please look here for details.

Next Meeting will be on Tuesday 13th November at 7pm

featuring a Christmas Supper comprising a Turkey Bap with either stuffing or cranberry sauce - a vegetarian option will be available - followed by warm mince pies Christmas cake etc all washed down with coffee tea or cold drinks.

Various Stalls will be available for you to purchase Christmas gifts and Christmas cards.

The ever popular Clothes Swap Rail will be there for you to bring items of clothing that you no longer wear or no longer fit and you can try on and take home free of charge something from the rail - you might find your new Christmas outfit 

You might like to come along in your Best Christmas Jumper - there will be a prize for the best 3

You are asked to bring a Secret Santa gift that should cost no more than £1. If everyone does this then no-one goes home empty handed.

And finally, there will be a Christmas Quiz to get those brain cells working and provide a lot of fun too.

The charge for the evening is £5. If you are wanting to come please contact Marie Mears or Margaret Green asap as we are limited to 60 places 

Report by Michelle Day

Every Tuesday morning during term time we have a LARGE parent and toddler group! (It is the group that is large, not the parents).Up to 40 parents, grandparents and carers together with 40+ babies and toddlers come along each week to play, cry and laugh and thats just the parents! Seriously though, Chris, Lesley and myself along with Ann, Josie and Margaret in the kitchen build close reationships with parents and children, some of whom are vunerable and need a shoulder to cry on or a listening ear.

We have a snack around 10 o'clock and now need to have 2 sittings as there is not enough room to sit, then we go outside to play, weather permitting. At 11.15 we tidy up and end the morning with a song time.

It is a great bridge between the Toddler group and Pre-school with several children attending the latter because of the relationships that have been built within the group. Many parents have returned to us after having more children and occasionally grandparents who use to bring their own children are now bringing their grandchildren. We do not advertise as we are recommended by parents to their friends but we do have some kind comments on the netmums.com web site which also brings new parents in.

As we are now so busy we could do with some help please. Chris and I  get around as many parents as possible, especially those on their own, but sometimes we need to sit with someone for longer and others get missed out. If you could spare even an hour on a Tuesday morning we would be most grateful. The group runs from 9.30 untill 11.30 every Tuesday morning.