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| Case study | Church type | Community reach | |
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Sawston Free Church, Sawston |
Rural | Footprints Café; café support groups; Sawston Fun Run; Remembrance Sunday parade; Sawston Summer Fayre; Messy Church; craft group; Time for Tots; Boys’ and Girls’ Brigade; tea dance; community survey; integration into village activities. |
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Christ Church, Cambridge |
Urban | The Embassy (Free weekly English as additional language teaching sessions); The Barn (international hospitality run by Friends International); Christianity Explored courses run regularly; community workgroups in collaboration with The Besom; hosting for Cambridge Churches Homeless Project; craft groups; Baby Steps (group for new parents); First Steps (twice-weekly parents & toddlers group); Sunday creche and children’s groups for up to age 14; midweek youth groups for 11–14s and 14–18s; midweek young adults groups (meal and group meetings); Daddy & Me (monthly dads and under-5s meeting); monthly lunch and weekly exercise group for over-50s. |
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St John the Evangelist, Waterbeach |
Rural | Collaboration with Church band; links with other churches; Making Sense event; Beach Churches Together Holiday Club; Third Space Conversations; Café church; exhibitions; Eco Church; Food Hub; Breakfast church in Landbeach. |
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St Peter & St Paul, Little Gransden |
Rural | School collaboration; Pilgrimage Project; bell ringing society; church fete; Community Café in Great Gransden; Good Friday Treasure Trail; The Gransden Show; A Very Victorian Christmas; community coffee morning and music festival at village hall; Benefice vicarage as a parish hub; involvement with local events; Bluebell-19 community support group. |
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St Mary, Beachamwell |
Rural | Local group activities in the village hall; coffee in the church; social events; afternoon teas; harvest supper; community public meeting; flower and brass rota. |
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Holy Trinity, Haddenham |
Rural | Caring for God’s Acre; hosting events; collection point; Ely foodbank; Walk of Witness; Flower Festival; Café Church; cream teas; Soup and More; summer barbeque; nativity plays; sleepovers; village picnic; collaboration with schools; clubs for children and young people; Mothers’ Union; integration into village activities. |
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St Peter & St Paul, Wisbech |
Market town | Rose Fair; Last Night of the Proms; Lunch in the Lodge, AA meetings and community events at St Peter’s Lodge and garden; Church social group; Connection with the Orthodox Church; supporting the homeless; Peter’s Petals flower rota; choir; focus on families and younger people; youth and women’s groups; Little Fishes; collaboration with school assemblies; Mothers’ Union. |
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St James, Little Paxton |
Rural | Little Paxton Pictures; bell-ringing team; Tots and Carers; exercise classes; Simply Saturday monthly lunch club; Knit, Stitch & Natter group; German Christmas market; concerts; special cinema screening with dementia group; collaboration with school assemblies; social media engagement with benefice Facebook page and website; pastoral care as requested. |
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St Peter, Duxford |
Rural | Café Church; coffee mornings; Craft Café; Lego Sunday; Messy Easter; Mossy Church; toddler group; school assemblies; pop-up church. |
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St Clement, Outwell |
Rural | St Clement, Outwell Welle Churchers Together joint events; coffee shop; First World War project; concerts; guest speakers; Festival of Angels and Scarecrows; Upwell and Outwell Festival; Arts and Crafts Fair; bible study group; village lunch; Craft and Chatter group; conservation cleaning workshop; poetry group; contribution to Wisbech foodbank; involvement with village activities. |
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St Michael & All Angels & Holy Cross, Wormegay |
Rural | Mission Room; coffee mornings; volunteer support; joint event with West Norfolk Priory Group churches. |
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St Mary & St John, Hinxton |
Rural | Art and craft exhibition; Tudor Fest in 2019; garden event; choral evenings; after-service coffee; Youthinc; work party; cleaning rota. |
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St Andrew, Histon |
Rural | Saint Andrew’s Centre and café; services in care homes; working with charities; working with other faiths; flower festival; Light Treasure Hunt; Christmas quiz; churchyard clean-up; dementia choir; EssenceXtra; mosaic service; stepping stones for preschool children; Table Talk; TRIO groups. |
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St Wendreda, March |
Market town | Community College partnership; missions; bell ringers; March Christian Bookshop; bookshop; Open Tower Day; coffee morning; talks events; concerts; foodbank; youth club; pop-up church; house groups; Sunday school; Churches Together in March group. |
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St Peter, March |
Market town | Church buildings as venues for community and town events; Fresh Expressions; rehearsal space; flower festival; concerts; Christmas Tree Festival; men’s group; ladies’ group; Knit and Natter; Sunday Club; mother and toddler group; Tiny Tots group; Children and Families worker; foodbank; Mothers’ Union; pop-up church; Churches Together in March. |
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St Mary, March |
Market town | Coffee mornings; flower festival; mother and toddler group; foodbank; Mothers’ Union; Churches Together in March. |
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St John the Evangelist, March |
Market town | Parish hall; Revolutions group; AA; Forest School; summer fete; Christmas fair; Children and Families worker; activity groups for children; youth club; St John’s First Thursday; Craft Group; Chat-Tea meal; school collaborations; Churches Together in March group. |
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Good Shepherd, Chesterton, Cambridge |
Suburban | Church hall; Community Fridge; foodbank; church teams; choir; mother and toddlers’ group; activities and support for families and children; youth groups; Arbury carnival; Community Action Day; Holiday Lunch Project; Red Hen coffee morning; Monday Club; Sunday lunches; collaboration with local organisations; Knitting Fund; house groups; Zoffee (coffee on Zoom). |
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St Andrew & St Mary Grantchester |
Suburban | Churchyard working parties; Hymns and Pimms; concerts; joint events with St Mark’s in Newnham; pizza by candlelight; school services; Mothers’ Union. |
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St Andrew, Caxton |
Rural | Walking group; Bell Ringing Society; Enquirers and Heretics group; joint events with community groups; Collaborative events with 14 ministry team churches; church coffee mornings; public concerts; children’s ministry; ‘Caxton Help’ – a joint church and community response to the COVID-19 pandemic. |
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St Mary the Virgin, Feltwell |
Rural | Community information point; support group; after-service coffee; churchyard wall repair project; lecture series; music festival; village yard sale; Festival of Light; harvest auction; Open Tower Day; Teddy Bear service; exhibitions; community survey. |
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All Saints, Rampton |
Rural | Rampton Action Group; Prayer Tree; opening and cleaning rota; bell-ringing teams; services at key festivals; concerts; champing; integration into village activities. |
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St Peter, Yaxley |
Rural | Community Sunday; Community Care Programme; Yaxley Food Bank; Winter Night Shelter; Sparks; Mothers’ Union; youth group; Encounter group; signed services for the deaf; impaired senses group; bible studies group; Green Day; Strawberry Tea; concerts; beer and carols at local public house; Christmas fair; bell ringing team; church and community building in Rwanda. |
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St Mary, Comberton |
Rural | Summer hamper scheme; overseas mission; oasis teas; Holiday at Home Club; children’s craft activities; Lenten lunch; church-school links; Selah; churchyard tidy-up working party; church fete; concerts; open gardens; coffee mornings; parish walk; open days. |
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Holy Trinity, Hildersham |
Rural | Community questionnaire; Café Church and outdoor variants of Mossy Church and Sweaty Church; Home group; Children’s Church Council; Church library; village tea; foodbank; Emmaus collection; arts festival; Heritage Day. |
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St George, Chesterton |
Suburban | Hope Church initiative; social prescribing plans; Circus group; Chesterton Festival, film nights; barbeques; listening exercise; Church and families worker; Ideas for a Parallel Lives project; working with the elderly; community survey; community space. |
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St Peter, Carlton |
Rural | The Carlton Project; The Big Sleep; parish council meetings in the church; church’s contribution to village defibrillator; The Big Clean; Safari Suppers; concerts; Messy Church; public talks; tea parties; post-service refreshments; integration to village activities; community volunteers. |
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St Martin, Cambridge |
Suburban | Community groups Frame, Vista, Women and men breakfast groups; Cambridge Torch; Learning disabilities group; Bowls and arts group for seniors; Community survey; St Thomas’s Hall; Day Centre; Care home. |
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St Mary & St Michael, Trumpington |
Suburban | Harvest Lunch; Christmas Tree Festival; Hands on the Circle (HonC!) stay and play group; Mothers of Pre-schoolers (MOPS) and their creche (Moppets); Music Together Group; Community survey; Church and Community Families Outreach Worker; Church Cornerstone; Collaboration with primary schools including ‘Open the Book’ assemblies. |
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St George, Littleport |
Market town | Children and Family Missionary; Pop-Up Church; Youth Hub; Church fetes; School collaboration; Youth work; Arts and Crafts Fair; Community Survey; Churchyard available for outdoor events. |
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St Mary the Virgin, Fen Ditton |
Rural | Community survey; Church fete; BBQ; Quizzes; Concerts. |
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St John the Baptist, Somersham |
Rural | Outreach Group; Over Sixties Club; Festivals and concerts; Stall at the annual Somersham Carnival; Servery area in the church; Children’s playground; Coffee mornings; Collaborations with nursery, schools and local charities. |
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All Saints, Elton, Peterborough |
Rural | Collaborations with the Stilton Group of Churches and village school; Parish walk. |
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All Saints, Landbeach |
Rural | Landbeach Village Society; Breakfast Church; Summer Garden Party; Pudding Evening; Coffee mornings; Painting and drawing groups; Heritage promotion; International church exchange visit. |
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St Philip, Romsey, Cambridge |
Urban | Cornerstone Café; Cambridge Churches Homelessness Project; Community survey; Visiting programme. |
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St Mark, Newnham, Cambridge |
Urban | Community centre classes and talks; Concerts and drama productions in church building; Community tea; Community lunches; Visiting group; Church fete; Cambridge Churches Homelessness Project; Community survey. |
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St Mary, Bartlow |
Rural | Bartlow Village Association; The Three Counties Charity Walk; Church and Community Volunteers; Grave Adoption Initiative. |
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St Mary the Virgin, Great Abington |
Rural | Collaboration with St Mary’s church in Little Abington; Spacious churchyard available for outdoors events. |
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St Laurence, Foxton |
Rural | Village Scarecrow Festival; School collaboration. |
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St Mary the Virgin, Linton |
Rural | Scarecrow Summer Festival; Community Peace Garden. |