The Sodbury Vale Benefice Chipping Sodbury, Old Sodbury, Horton & Little Sodbury
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1 Jane is enrolled as a Companion of the Society of St Francis by Brother Damian. 1
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Rector The Revd. Canon Jane Kenchington, 01454 313159 [Day off Friday] email jane@kenchington.plus.com
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The Revd. Yvonne Brae, 01454 850682, Mob. 07908 513098 [Day
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John Myers 01454 312223 If you would like to know more about Mrs Karen Hunter 01454 319903 the Christian faith or are thinking about baptism or confirmation please speak to Jane or Yvonne
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Old Sodbury Village Hall Friday 27th June 2014 at 7:30pm Chipping Sodbury Festival week promises Tickets £20.00 per person to be a busy time for the M.U. as we are Telephone: 324344 or 312223 providing teas for the queen’s party and the band at the Old Grammar School on Sunday 15th and also catering for Gloucester Cathedral Choir in the Church Centre before their concert that evening. Any gifts of cakes (not chocolate for the choir!) would be very welcome. We will also be serving tea/coffee and cakes in church on Saturday 21st June – again cakes welcome! Please contact me on C/S 319288 if you can help. Our June meeting will take place on June 9th at 7:45 pm in the Church Centre Bible bedtime App when we have a speaker coming to talk to The children’s author, Martin Coleman, us about Paul’s Place. has told BBC Radio Wiltshire about With love Joy Gibson writing the new Bible Society ‘Bible Bedtime’ app – The app contains five stories and is part of the ‘Pass It On’ Christianity is not a spectator sport campaign which encourages parents to You have to take part to make it read Bible stories to their children. The work. app is available Free on Apple’s app store. 3
Dear Friends It’s been a few years now since I worked in a paid capacity but when I did I had a ‘sign’ pinned to my desk that I could see every day. I think it was written by Rupert Brooke It goes: ‘I have a need to busy my heart with quietude.’ Maybe you know it. I had it on my desk partly due to the work I was doing but also because of the pressures of meeting deadlines whilst dealing with the nature of the work. My work didn’t deal with the pleasant side of life so I had to kind of bury concerns and worries and just meet the demands of time. Both my husband and I were very involved with Church life - it could become quite tough having to decide which bit to concentrate on after all we needed money to live on but yet we loved knowing how much God loves us and desperately wanted others to have that knowledge too. Hard! - However I don’t for one minute think that I’m the only one who has had to deal with this kind of thing. Though have you noticed that for a few years now it’s the ‘done’ thing to have a lot going on? When someone asks what you’ve been doing, you don’t want to say you’ve been watching the weather on TV or learning how to tweeze your eyebrows (never have managed that!). Maybe there are too many options in our culture and it’s hard to say no when there’s so many wonderful things to say yes to. Maybe we want to join in with everyone else around us who appear to have lots going on, to identify with them so we might feel more valued. Maybe busyness makes us feel important, I don’t know - the world just seems a very busy place somehow and people don’t appear to have any time left. The kind of life we lead today is reflected in the statistics concerning the number of people who attend Church regularly, a 2011 survey said that ‘In the past when life had fewer distractions Church attendance was measured on a weekly basis but today regular Churchgoing is often measured as those that go at least once a month.‘ Another survey reports ‘the busy life was found to be a distraction from God among Christians around the globe.’ And it’s both men and women who are affected – it’s a myth that men are less spiritual than women (at least in other religions if not Christianity!) Bit of a spiral I think, we don’t go to Church regularly, we talk about being too busy, combined it shouts out ‘They’re too busy for me’ to those looking for God. I wonder do we recognise how important we are to God in the building of his Kingdom? Holiness has never been the driving force of the majority, but when will our Churches be full again... I don’t have Rupert Brooke’s words on my desk now but recently found myself thinking – ‘Stop! I don’t want that feeling of busyness to be directing what I do. I know I am absolutely dependent upon spending time with God and it’s not to be a quick prayer and on my way, it’s to be quality time. I still have room for improvement- guess I’ll never be perfect – this isn’t a shame kick - bit by bit I hope... Do you? Yvonne Read Psalm 39 verse 6 Rev. Yvonne Brae, 01454 850682, email jmyr@blueyonder.co.uk
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Meet our forthcoming student Daniel is an Ordinand for the Church of England, studying at Trinity College in Bristol. He is married to Amy, and has four children, Isaac (8) Jacob (6) Samuel (4) and Primrose (13 months). Before moving to Thornbury to begin his training at Trinity, Daniel lived in St Austell, Cornwall, where he spent time as a Youth, Children’s and School’s worker, as well as working for the Halifax Bank. Daniel enjoys meeting new people and has a passion for pastoral care. Recently, he has grown in awareness of issues of social justice, particularly human trafficking, and is seeking to explore how his calling to ordination can contribute to helping this issue. Daniel enjoys spending time with his family, playing games with his boys and coffee.
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with the Archbishop of Canterbury. Some of you will have seen pictures of this in the following day’s newspapers. There were about 700 women standing on those famous steps – including the Archdeacon of Gloucester, Susan Bailey, Pauline Green and me! We then walked into St Paul’s cathedral and the congregation spontaneously stood up and clapped. At one of the doors, I passed a lone lady from the Roman Catholic Church holding a placard. “Pray for us”, she begged. “We long for this to happen in our church.” When the service proper started, we had another surprise – which on reflection made absolute sense: the president of the eucharist was Canon Philippa Boardman, a Canon residentiary of St Paul’s and the Archbishop of Canterbury walked in procession holding high the Book of the Gospels, as the deacon for the eucharist. There was no evidence of his mitre or crozier. He was just wearing deacon’s vestments. In addition to the usual format for the eucharist, there were two testimonies given by the Very Revd June Osborne (Dean of Salisbury and a “1994” priest) and a woman who has been ordained very recently. They spoke of how the church had changed in the last 20 years. In his sermon, Archbishop Justin apologised for the church’s slowness in ordaining women and also reminded us that the church still has a long journey to go before it is truly transformed into the likeness of Christ. He spoke of the church becoming more and more inclusive, welcoming all and when that happens, the church will be turned inside out and will flourish as she is meant to do. The whole service was very moving. The photo accompanying this article was taken after the service and is of the Archdeacon of Gloucester and me. All in all, it was a wonderful day. JK
Celebrations and Adventures in London: Saturday 3 May 2014 On 3 May the national Church of England celebrated the fact that women had been ordained priest for 20 years…and a group of us from the Diocese of Gloucester joined in! The day dawned beautifully sunny and warm – which was extremely fortunate because the event included all of us walking in a procession from Westminster Abbey to St Paul’s Cathedral. We gathered in Dean’s Yard, next to Westminster Abbey and Church House at lunchtime, met up with various people from across the country. The significance of meeting in this place was that in November 1992, a crowd of people gathered in Dean’s Yard waiting for the General Synod’s vote on whether women should be ordained priest. The vote was positive and the rest, as they say, is history and the first ordinations of women priests took place from March 1994. After three speeches, we then set off, walking to St Paul’s. Passers-by cheered us on, as we walked, waving our different Diocesan banners. Just before the start of the 4pm service at St Paul’s, all the “1994 women” were invited to pose on the steps of St Paul’s 6
Celebration of Women Priests in Gloucester Cathedral
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“If I’m truthful I sat there in the Cathedral on Saturday and was taken to tears. I was reminded again of all the tears and heartache of the past but yet the service was set in the context of such joy of 20 years acceptance.” The Diocese of Gloucester has been a pioneer in supporting women in leadership, and we are particularly grateful to the Bishop of Gloucester Michael Perham for his personal leadership and commitment in this area. “Thanks also to the many women and men, lay and ordained, who have offered advocacy and support over the decades, even in the bleakest of moments. 7
The Bible a defining influence in World War 1
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Saturday 12th July
WALKING IN THE LIGHT A Day of Reflection led by
Bishop John & Mrs. Rosemary Went at So says a leading academic. And, he Sacred Hearts Church Hall, adds, it is hard to understand those years Charlton Kings, Cheltenham without taking the Bible into consideration. from Dr Michael Snape from Birmingham 10.0am until 3.0pm University is a prominent authority on COST £12 religion and war. Speaking exclusively to Bible Society, he TO RESERVE YOUR PLACE said, ‘It is hard to understand British Contact Revd. Dr. Alison Evans on 01453-824034 society at the time of World War 1 if you email: malcolm.alison@btinternet.com subtract the Bible from it.’ He added that the Bible was ‘the defining influence’ on working class culture. Ninety per cent of children went to Sunday School SPIRITUALITY NETWORK at the time. A quarter of the population FOR GLOUCESTERSHIRE went to church every single Sunday. The INDIVIDUALLY GUIDED RETREATS Bible was in the blood of British people. IN GLOS. & WORCS. 2014 ‘It was seen as a mark of a good A SUMMER 4-DAY IGR education, the sign of a respectable background, to know your Bible,’ said Dr at the Marist Centre, Nympsfield, near Stroud, Glos Snape. When war broke out on 4 August 1914, From Tues 26th –Sun 31th Aug every member of the British Armed Forces Team: Sister Winnie Morley, Rob received a New Testament as a standard Hingley, and Brenda Dowie Cost: £355 part of his kit: uniform, gun, boots, Bible. AN AUTUMN 4-DAY IGR: Bible Society was among several at The Monastery of Our Lady and organisations that worked tirelessly to St.Bernard, Brownshill, near Stroud provide Bibles to soldiers, sailors, airmen, prisoners of war, conscientious objectors, From Fri 3rd- Wed.8th Oct and those invalided out of the front line. Over the four years of the war, it printed Team: Pauline Green, Francis Buxton and distributed some 9 million Bibles in 80 and Rachael Willard Cost: £ 295 Enquiries to the Revd Pauline Green. different languages.
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homeless and on the streets, in prison or facing problems in the community. Grant us the wisdom to listen to the voices of the young and to respect their gifts and insights. Help us to work with them to create a fair and just society where we may all know the fullness of your love. Through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
Principal Service readings June June 1 (Sunday after Ascension) Acts 1: 6 - 14 1 Peter 4: 12 - 14, 5: 6 - 11 John 17: 1 - 11 Psalm 68: 1 - 10, 32 - 35 June 8 (Pentecost) Acts 2: 1 - 21 1 Corinthians 12: 3b - 13 John 20: 19 - 23 Psalm 104: 26 - 36, 37b June 15 (Trinity Sunday) Isaiah 40: 12 - 17, 27 - end 2 Corinthians 13: 11 - end Matthew 28: 16 - 20 Psalm 8 June 22 (First Sunday after Trinity) Jeremiah 20: 7 - 13 Romans 6: 1b - 11 Matthew 10: 24 - 39 Psalm 69: 8 - 11 June 29 (St Peter and St Paul) Zechariah 4: 1 - 6a, 10b - end Acts 12: 1 - 11 Matthew 16: 13 - 19 Psalm 125
The Keukenhof Gardens Tulips of Holland
The Children’s Society annual box collection 2013 The annual box opening has taken place and this year we have raised £832.32 in this Parish. Thank you all for your most generous donations. Hilary Hurley
The Children’s Society Prayer Loving Lord, we thank you for The Children’s Society as it reaches out to young people experiencing pain and injustice. Guide and strengthen its work alongside children and young people who are 10
When we accept this our hearts are filled with peace, because there has been a true solution for sin. For me this is the most glorious thing..." Thanks to Christian people going out in obedience to Jesus' command to go and make disciples of all nations, people like Usman can have their lives completely turned around. The Kingdom of God comes alive for them as they embrace God's forgiveness! And God's love takes hold of them. Now they in turn are sharing those blessings in their own communities and often at great risk to themselves and their families. In God's greater economy we as the Body of Christ are all in this together with our brother Usman and many others like him. Through our prayers and gifts we can support them in the many challenges they face on a daily basis. The monthly Global Action prayer meeting is just one way by which you can get connected. Interested? Frank Gray
A terrorist - forgiven An Al-Qaeda trained former terrorist is one of the most engaging people I have ever encountered. Usman writes with great sadness about his previous life of inflicting terror and destruction on Christians and their churches in one Southeast Asian country. "The problem is, we had never been told what that great sacrifice is" he says referring to the Mount Moriah incident when Abraham was called to offer up his son. Who was this perfect man? Amazingly, even the Qur'ran says there is only one without sin - and that is Jesus. But that is not being taught... Usman continues "When we understand truth and when we are guided by God, we will understand that God has provided the blood sacrifice. And that holy sacrifice, Jesus, spoke out and said 'It is finished!'
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Sat and Sun June 21st & 22nd at Nutridge, Ram Hill, Coalpit Heath, BS36 2UF
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The announcement of the new Bishop will happen late spring 2015 and the start date will be around the summer or early The current Bishop of Gloucester, the autumn of 2015. Right Revd. Michael Perham will retire this November after 10 years of service. The Horton Flower Festival process has now begun for discerning who 4th,5th and 6th JULY the next Bishop of Gloucester could be. The Bishop of Gloucester is the Chief Chipping Sodbury Floral Society are Pastor of all in the diocese, which covers arranging the flowers for our festival the county of Gloucestershire and parts of entitled neighbouring counties. It is home to over The Glory of the Garden 600,000 people, served by 305 parishes, 390 churches and 116 church schools. at The Bishop of Gloucester also exercises St James the Elder Church, a vital role in the wider community, most Horton. prominently as a board and committee member on many local, regional and It will start with a preview on Thursday national bodies. It is important that we evening from 7pm 'til 9pm admittance by have as many views as possible from ticket only, and continue on Friday 4th people on the qualities of the person they July and Saturday 5th from 10am 'til 8pm would like to see as the next Bishop of and on Sunday 6th from 10am 'til 5pm Gloucester. followed by Festival Evensong at 6.30pm. By answering the two simple questions Tea, coffee and cakes will be served in a below, it will help us to get a picture of the marquee next to the church. Please come type of person they would like to see as along and enjoy some wonderful flowers Bishop: in a unique setting next to Horton Court. 笳集hat would you say are the top 2 priorities for the next Bishop of Gloucester? 笳集hat are the top 2 things you would want to tell the next Bishop of Gloucester? You can email us on ournewbishop@glosdioc.org.uk, tweet us using the hashtag #newglosbishop, or place a message on our Facebook page at:www.facebook.com/Diocese.of.Gloucest er. First submissions by 6 June. Final deadEntry free. line 7 July. Find out more at Donations appreciated to St James the www.gloucester.anglican.org/about/theElder Horton. next-bishop/ Parking available. The process for finding the next Bishop Tel. 01454 319356 or 01454 320380. of Gloucester will take just under a year.
The process for finding the next Bishop of Gloucester
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Bishop Michael’s Final Pilgrimage
As part of the Chipping Sodbury Festival A chance to hear
Bishop Michael and 10 other walkers (including Val and Stuart Bexon) will be walking an 84.3 mile pilgrimage, from Sunday 8 June until Saturday 14 June. Their route will take them through a lot of the parishes and benefices on the edges of the Diocese. They will be arriving in this Benefice on Wednesday 11 June, reaching Old Sodbury by approximately 3.30pm. They will pray Evening Prayer in Old Sodbury Church and then leave there at 4pm to walk to Chipping Sodbury, arriving there at 5.15pm. I hope by the time you read this, we will have found enough beds for everyone! On Thursday 12 June, they will gather in Chipping Sodbury Church at 8.15am for lectio divina and Morning Prayer and then leave the church at 9am to start walking again – this time to Rangeworthy. They are really keen to invite local people to join them on part of their route – for as long or as short as you can manage. The itinerary below shows all the timings. So do go and join the pilgrims! Day 4 Wednesday 11 June 8.15am lectio divina & Morning Prayer at Sopworth Church 9:00am Leave Sopworth and walk to Little Badminton Church. Leave here at 10.45am. 11.15am Arrive at Great Badminton Church. 11.30am leave Great Badminton Church and walk to Acton Turville (arrive at 12.15pm) 1.30pm Leave Acton Turville Church and walk to Old Sodbury Church. 3.30pm Arrive at Old Sodbury Church and stay for Evening Prayer. 4.15pm leave Old Sodbury Church and walk to Chipping Sodbury Church. 5.15pm arrive in Chipping Sodbury.
Gloucester Cathedral Choir This prestigious choir sing regularly at the cathedral and appear on the BBC and at combined concerts
St John the Baptist Church, Chipping Sodbury. Sunday 15th June 6.00pm
Retiring collection for the outreach work of the Cathedral choir
Stay overnight in the Sodbury Vale Benefice Day 5 Thursday 12 June 8.15am lectio divina & Morning Prayer at Chipping Sodbury Church 9am Leave Chipping Sodbury and walk to Rangeworthy Church. 11.15am Arrive at Rangeworthy. 11.30am Leave Rangeworthy Church and walk to Tytherington Church. 12.15pm Arrive at Tytherington Church. 1.30pm leave Tytherington and walk to St Paul’s Church, the Hackett, Thornbury. 2.15pm Arrive at St Paul’s 2.30pm Leave St Paul’s and walk to St Mary’s Church, Thornbury 3.15pm Arrive at St Mary’s and say Evening Prayer there. 4pm Leave St Mary’s and walk to St Arilda’s, Oldbury-on-Severn – arriving at 5pm.
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Sodbury Vale Benefice Regular Weekly Events Monday
8.45am
Morning Prayer
St John’s, Chipping Sodbury
7.30pm
Bell Ringer’s Practice
Church Tower, Chipping Sodbury
8.45am
Morning Prayer
St John’s, Chipping Sodbury
Wednesday 8.30am
Morning Prayer
St John’s, Chipping Sodbury
Thursday
Morning Prayer
St John’s, Chipping Sodbury
Tuesday
Friday
8.45am
10.00am Holy Communion
St John’s, Chipping Sodbury
7.00pm
Choir Practice
St John’s, Chipping Sodbury
7.00pm
Youth Club (age 11-18)
Baptist Church Centre
Sodbury Vale Benefice Forthcoming Events Sun
6th
July
Ordination of Peter Fewings
Gloucester Cathedral
Mon
6th
Oct
7.30pm
Harvest Supper
Village Hall, OS
Sun
2nd
Nov
4.00pm
All Souls Service
St John’s, CS
Sun
23rd
Nov
2.00pm
Friends of Old Sodbury Church will be holding ‘Stir up Sunday’
St John’s, OS
Sat
29th
Nov
7.00pm
Friends of Old Sodbury Church present a Concert by the Silver Ring Choir
St John’s, OS
May
2015
Pilgrimage to The Holy Land led by the Ven Jackie Searle Archdeacon of Gloucester
Info from Alison Vlach 01452 835583
5th - 14th
If you don’t see your event in the list above please let me know, once it is on this calendar other people can put it on theirs! All times are subject to change look out for further details closer to the date. Michelle 01454 325160 sodburyvalebenefice@gmail.com
Sodbury Vale Benefice Calendar June 2014 Sun 1st Sunday after Ascension Day
Tue Wed Thurs
3rd 4th 5th
Sun 8th Pentecost Mon 9th Tue 10th Wed 11th Thurs 12th
Fri Sat
13th 14th
Sun 15th Trinity Sunday
Tues Thur
17th 19th
Sun 22nd First Sunday after Trinity
Tue
24th
Wed
25th
Thurs
26th
Fri
27th
Sun 29th St Peter and St Paul
8.00am 9.30am 11.15am 11.15am 6.00pm 7.00pm 8.00pm 10.00am 10.45am 10.30am
Holy Communion St John’s Praise Mattins Family Communion Evensong Horton PCC Mission Prayer Group Holy Communion Coffee Shop Benefice Jazz Mass
St John’s, C/S St John’s, C/S St James’, Horton St John’s, O/S St Adeline’s, L/S Kirren House Church Centre, C/S St John’s, C/S Church Centre, C/S St John’s, C/S
7.45pm 3.00pm 1.20pm 10.00am 10.45am 7.30pm 7.30pm 10.00am 9.30am 11.15am 11.15am 6.00pm 6.00pm 8.00pm 7.30pm 10.00am 10.45am 9.30am 11.15am 11.15am 6.00pm 6.30pm 2.00pm 3.00pm 1.20pm 7.30pm 10.00am 10.45am 7.30pm
Mothers’ Union Meditation Meeting Women’s Fellowship Holy Communion Coffee Shop Crib Festival Meeting Concert by American Choir Abseil down the North Face of the Tower Civic Festival Service Morning Prayer Holy Communion {BCP} Evensong Cathedral Choir Concert A Smile and a Song CS School Concert Holy Communion Coffee Shop Parish Communion Family Communion {CW} Morning Praise {CW} Holy Communion {BCP} Festival Songs of Praise Tea and Chat Afternoon Meditation Meeting Women’s Fellowship Deanery Synod Holy Communion Coffee Shop Meeting of all PCCs with Bishop Martyn of Tewkesbury Friends of OS Church - Summer Dining with Fine Wines Parish Communion Holy Communion {BCP} Family Communion Evensong{BCP}
Church Centre, C/S Ring 314409 for venue 1 Kent Ave, Yate St John’s C/S Church Centre C/S Vicarage C/S St James’, Horton St John’s, C/S St John’s, C/S St James’, Horton St John’s, O/S St Adeline’s, L/S St John’s, C/S St John’s C/S St John’s, C/S St John’s C/S Church Centre C/S St John’s C/S St James’ Horton St John’s O/S St Adeline’s L/S St John’s, C/S Church Centre, CS Ring 314409 for venue 1 Kent Ave, Yate Blue Coat School, WuE St John’s, C/S Church Centre, C/S Horton Village Hall
7.30pm 9.30am 11.15am 11.15am 6.00pm
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Village Hall,O/S St John’s C/S St James’ Horton St John’s O/S St Adeline’s L/S
F Launch of Crucible2 The biggest names in contemporary sculpture are coming together in one of the largest exhibitions in the UK at Gloucester Cathedral. Crucible2 will display 100 sculptures by 61 artists, many of whom are Britain’s most renowned sculptors including Damien Hirst, Lynn Chadwick, Antony Gormley, Kenneth Armitage and Jon Buck. Hundreds of thousands of people visited the first Crucible in 2010 and this event is set to be even bigger and better. The sculptures will be placed throughout the cathedral and its grounds, setting these modern pieces of art against a magnificent historical building. The exhibition runs from 1st September to 31st October. Crucible2 is jointly organised by Gloucester Cathedral and Gallery Pangolin and will be completely free of charge, so everyone can enjoy some of the most exceptional sculpture produced in the past 50 years. The Very Reverend Stephen Lake, Dean of Gloucester, said: “The cathedral is both ‘sacred space and common ground’, so exciting things can take place here which have a real impact on people’s experiences.” To find out more about Crucible2, discover who all the artists are and to get behind the scenes information visit www.crucible2.co.uk. Follow us on www.facebook.com/crucible2.sculpture and on Twitter @crucible2sculp or use the hashtag #crucible2sculp
Poverty Sunday 22nd June 2014 This is a time to reflect on issues of poverty in this country and how churches and individual Christians respond. How does poverty affect your local area? Poverty impacts on every aspect of people’s lives. You can find out about how we define poverty and how we respond. Look out for our Poverty Sunday resources for churches and individuals (including prayers and a sermon outline), which will be available later this month. Church Urban Fund resources and multiplies the great work that churches are already doing to tackle poverty all over England. For every £1 raised by churches and individuals in 2013, Church Urban Fund invested £4.50 to make this work more strategic, effective and sustainable. Can you or your church get involved by holding a Poverty Sunday service and collection for Church Urban Fund? Find out more at www.cuf.org.uk
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