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Thank you to all who came to see the Kelsborrow Choir Concert at St James' Church fund raising event October 2025
· by jonathangilliatt | Oct. 27, 2025, 11:42 a.m.St James' Church played host on Friday evening to the Kelsborrow Choir. It was great to see them return to St James' Church. The Choir provided an evening of music from famous stage and screen productions such as Les Misérables, and Evita together with wonderful renditions of hit songs such as "Don't Cry for Me Argentina" amongst many others. This event was supporting the "St James' New Beginnings Church Development Project". The evening raised over £800 (including a raffle) which again was such an astonishing amount!
(Photo credit: web admin) - image used with kind permission from Kelsborrow Choir
It was a very enjoyable evening with some wonderful organ improvisations and a very apt version of "Three blind mice" played in a Mozart style. It was very apt because the conductor/director who played the improvised piece did not realise that earlier last year St James' Church organ actually did play …
Talk by David Cummings at Christleton Parish Hall, 7pm 11th October 2025
· by jonathangilliatt | Aug. 31, 2025, 12:50 p.m.
Totals raised for St James' Summer Garden Party and Coffee Morning
· by jonathangilliatt | July 24, 2025, 9:32 a.m.Many thanks to all who came to the St James' Church Summer Garden party 2 weeks ago. It turned out to be a particularly hot summers day which included some deliciously prepared food. Despite a rather shaky start to the afternoon caused by a road incident which unfortunately did prevent a few coming along, the event was very successful and enjoyable!
The figures are now in! We raised £900 which is an astonishing amount and will go towards the St James' Church Development Fund. This event attracted 50 people.
We can also announce too that Janet & John's Coffee Morning raised an amazing amount of £671.80 which will also go towards the St James' Church Development Fund and was attended by 45 people.
St James' Church and PCC would like to thank everyone who helped to bring these events together without which these funds would not have been raised.
Thankyou …
A big thankyou to everyone who came to the concert in aid of the St James' Church Project Development on 12th April 2025
· by jonathangilliatt | April 23, 2025, 12:39 p.m.The PCC of St James' Church would like to thank everybody who came to the concert which was held at St James' Church in aid of the Church Project Development on Saturday 12th April. Serenity Fisher, Michael Ronstadt, Bill Malkin & John Sylvester put on a terrific performance with a superb variety of styles of music!
Initial indications are that after ticket sales, fees & raffle tickets we raised in excess of £500 with a turnout of 120. This was indeed a thoroughly enjoyable and successful evening and we hope that you will join us in future events to support this pivotal period in the history of our community!
We would also like to thank everybody who was involved behind the scenes, and would like to extend our thanks to all those who contributed prizes to the raffle held in the draw during the interval.
On behalf of the …
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