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GoodNews 50p March 2021
Good News from All Saints in St.Leonards & St.Ives— March 2021
Sunday Car
Drivers
1st Sunday
Ann Lomax 01425 470317
2nd Sunday
Pat Woodcock 01425 480921
3rd Sunday
Barry Wallen 01425 474207
4th Sunday
Susan Woolward 01202 829434
5th Sunday
Barbara Davies 01425 475700
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Diary Dates - March restrictions. Worship has been
allowed but it is only now that
In Person Services at All Saints: the PCC has felt it is appropriate
(Subject to current Covid-19 rules and to offer limited in person services
for those who feel safe and would
guidance - see below) like. Please follow the advice of
Sun 7th 10am Service of the word the greeters for where to sit and
Sun 14th 10am Service of the word what to do, and remember your
Sun 21st 10am Service of the word face mask!
Sun 28th 8am Palm Sunday Holy However, the streaming (on
Communion Facebook) of a Sunday Morning
service will continue at 9.30am,
10am Palm Sunday with King’s Kids at 10.30am and,
Holy Week on Weds at 10.30am, Holy
See page 30 Communion).
Thought for the day and some
services are also available to
Other Dates: listen to on the local rate phone
For details of services and events line 01425 543304.
across the Benefice, please refer to Also online (Zoom) Prayer
‘Events’ on the Benefice website: meetings are being held - see
inside back cover.
www.ringwoodbenefice.org.uk
Any permitted ‘in person’ services
will be subject to government
Some event information is also advice and rules and as such there
shown on Pages 30/31. may be some last minute changes.
At the time of writing, we are We will try to notify of any
still in National Lockdown but changes and apologise in advance
the government have identified if we cannot achieve this for
the ’road map’ for easing of everyone.
Our Vision & Beliefs
To be an inclusive church that welcomes all.
A church that is transformed by the love of God and to share that
love with each other and all whom we meet.
A people committed to growing together in love and faith and to
growing into the likeness of Christ.
Mission Statement
We strive to be a community of people that:
tells others about God
grows in the likeness of God
works towards a just and compassionate society
is fully resourced for the task
We hope you enjoy browsing our website and hope to see you soon.
Visitors are always welcome.
Besides catering for the spiritual needs of the parish, All Saints hosts a choir, music group, a
flower guild, Sunday school, Mother & Toddler Group, and Handicrafts Group. The Church
Centre is a venue for a variety of educational and recreational interests in an active and well-
integrated community.
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When God Seems sabachtani?” which means,
“My God, My God, why have
Absent you forsaken Me?”.
There have been times in my Forsaken is strong language,
life when God has felt isn’t it? To forsake someone
absent. When, because of is to leave them forever,
stress or trauma I haven’t especially around times
been able to sense the when that person needs you.
presence of God in my life. Jesus felt God had forsaken
Before you put this down to a him on the cross. Jesus felt
crisis of faith - STOP! It strikes me God had left him forever, even at a
that there is a real difference point of need. This verse shows the
between experiencing God as absent humanity of Jesus , but also shows
and denying faith in God. I’m going how we can experience God as
to try hard throughout this article to absent in response to a particular
avoid quoting the infamous circumstance. For Jesus, the context
‘Footprints’ poem but it does was the cross, but for us it might be
helpfully communicate the point seasons of loss, chronic pain,
that there are times when God feels depression, stress or other trauma.
absent. Do you agree? You’re
welcome to comment with your God’s Absence in Trauma
experience of the ‘absence’ of God, If you’re a parent, you will likely
but for now, read on. know the experience of a child
getting themselves worked up into a
Jesus on the Cross state of near mania when something
In claiming that God seems absent upsets them. In our house we have a
we are not denying his existence, rule that all toys must be tidied
nor abandoning faith. Also, and this away before the kids go upstairs for
might take a bit of mental yoga, we bed. The sanction for not tidying up
are not necessarily claiming that even after repeated requests, is the
God is not present in our lives. I can removal of the toys left on the floor.
often be in the same room as my Whenever I enact the sanction it
daughter Izzy, whilst she is generally creates a near manic
engrossed in children’s TV, I am response on the part of my children.
present in the room but Izzy has no They cry and scream, their breathing
sense of my presence. quickens, their faces turn red, none
There would appear to be times of which is my desire. What I notice
when God is not manifestly present. is in those moments of acute stress
You may agree with me that God is for my children, they are solely
‘omnipresent’, which is to say that focused on the immediate return of
God is present, always and their toys. Any attempts at physical
everywhere. You might also agree comfort or words of reassurance are,
with me that there are times when I suspect, ignored as they demand
God is ‘manifestly’ present where the repatriation of their toys.
God feels or seems just as present to My experience as a Hospital Chaplain
us spiritually as if God were tells me that in confronting the
physically present with us. imminent loss of a loved one,
At those times in our lives when God relatives search for the presence of
feels absent, we’re in good God. Often families would gather
company, because Jesus himself around their dying loved one and be
experienced the sense of the intensely present to each other both
absence of God on the Cross: in sharing physical gestures of
cont’d on page 15
About the ninth hour Jesus cried out
in a loud voice, “Eli, Eli, lema
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Church Information Sundays
Address: Ringwood Service Road, 10 am - All Saints Service of the
St. Ives, Ringwood, Hants BH24 2NS Word - see page 4
9.30am – Benefice livestreamed
Vicar: Rev’d Matthew Trick Sunday Worship taking place on
The Vicarage, 65 Southampton Road facebook.com/ringwoodbenefice
Ringwood BH24 1HE
Tel: 01425 489898 Weekdays (not during crisis)
Associate Minister: Morning Prayer is said in church at 8.00
am Tuesdays and in Ringwood church at
Rev’d Ian Whitham 8.20am on Wednesdays.
The Vicarage, 30 Pine Drive, St Ives,
Ringwood BH24 2LN Holy Communion is celebrated at 10.00
Tel: 01425 552180 am on every Thursday
or e-mail
allsaintsoffice@ringwoodbenefice.org.ukCoffee Corner on Thursday Mornings:
Website: www.ringwoodbenefice.org.uk Come and join us for your morning break
of tea or coffee in the Church Centre
Marriage & Baptism Enquiries every Thursday morning at 10.30 am or
Enquiries should be made to the vicar— after the communion service. We would
see above love to welcome you.
Church Centre Bookings Sundays (not during crisis)
It is possible to book the church centre First Sunday
for functions and other events. 8.30 am Holy Communion (BCP)
Enquiries should be made in the first 10.30am Holy Communion (CW) &
smAll Saints Church for children
instance to Paddy Hester, 01425 5.30pm for
474758 6.00pm The Well—modern service
Lifts to Church Second Sunday
Lifts are available to people who could 8.30am Holy Communion (BCP)
not otherwise get to church. Please 10.30am Holy Communion (CW)&
contact Susan Woolward on smAll Saints Church for children
01202 829434 6.00pm Evensong
Third Sunday
Worship Times 8.30am Holy Communion (BCP)
9.30am for
Please note that, due to Covid-19, 10.00am Café Church, Family Service
normal services have been suspended with breakfast
for the time being and that the 6.00pm Evening Worship
church buildings are closed for a lot
of the time. During this crisis, the Fourth Sunday
rules, guidelines and opportunities 8.30am Holy Communion (BCP)
change frequently. The best place to 10.30am Holy Communion (CW)&
find out what is being provided in the smAll Saints Church for children
way of prayer and worship is to look
at the Benefice website (newsletter) Fifth Sunday
or contact one of the Vicars, the 8.30am Holy Communion (BCP)
Benefice Office or a church warden. 10.30am Benefice Service—rotates
All contact details are on these 2 around the Benefice so
pages. check Pews News or
Website
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Who’s Who ‘Good News’ Magazine
Churchwardens Sadly, we are again unable to carry
2 Vacancies out a full print run this month and so
Parish Administrator distribution will be a limited posted
Lisa Hover 01425 461512 copy, via email or access from the
Website. It is now under ‘What’s on’,
Licensed Lay Minister
scroll down to click on ‘News’ and then
Ruth Freeman 01425 475645
scroll down to see the latest magazine.
Lay Pastors
Please note: Copy for inclusion next
Wendy Bennitt 01425 473220 month should be passed to Sally Brierley
Elizabeth Morris 01425 479936 contact on 471335 or, preferably, email
Cherry Brooks 01425 838404 at allsaints.goodnews@gmail.com
Dee Briggs 01202 894716
Marion Ridgway 01425 475444 Copy deadline for the next Issue:
Susan Woolward 01202 829434 Monday 15th March.
Andrea Emblin 01425 482742
If you would like to (normally) receive a
Gill Tybjerg 01425 470906 paper copy of this magazine each month,
John Freeman 01425 475645 for an annual subscription of £5.00,
Laura Reynolds 01202 950693 please ring Lynne Wilson on 01202
872134. Alternatively you can receive it
Safeguarding & Inclusion Officer via email (PDF file format) at a discount
price of £3.50 for the year, please email
Hilary Cooper 01202 894700 Sally using the address above to set up.
Health & Safety Officer
Vacancy Advertising enquiries should be
Secretary to the Parochial Church made to Sally Brierley, as above.
Council Please note that advertising
Vacancy deadline is the 5th of the month.
Church Treasurer Advertisements in this publication
Stephen Gray 01425 473727 have not been endorsed or approved
(Vacancy) by the PCC or any of this parish’s
Gift Aid Secretary representatives.
Vacancy
Fund Raising/Social Events All Saints Parent and
Vacancy Toddler Group
Director of Music This group meets on Wednesday
Gill Tybjerg 01425 470906 mornings in the Church Centre. For
Assistant Organist further details contact
John Birch 01425 476401 Jane Chick on 01425 473177
SmALL Saints Sunday School & or email jane@chick.org.uk .
Messy Church Please note that, due to Covid-
Chris Ross 07974 631884 19, this group has been
Church Flowers suspended for the time being.
Sue Nixon 07511 961950
Sunday Car Drivers
Susan Woolward 01202 829434
Church Centre Bookings
Paddy Hester 01425 474758
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God in the Sciences help us express both our grief and
our thanks to God. Try reading one
Written by Dr Ruth M Bancewicz, or two each day.
Church Engagement Director at The
Faraday Institute for Science and Journaling
Religion in Cambridge. Ruth writes Keep a journal of thoughts,
on the positive relationship between experiences or practices you have
Science and Christian faith. engaged with during the day.
Constructing a personal narrative or
What will March bring? story is now recognised as a very
Mental health ideas for powerful psychological and spiritual
tool for building resilience. It is also
uncertain times a vital learning tool that we can go
We may all have rather mixed back to when tough times return in
feelings on reaching March this year. the future.
On the one hand, it is lovely to see Acts of kindness
the onset of Spring, and vaccinations Helping or encouraging someone else
and better weather may make is obviously a good thing to do in
handling the pandemic a little itself, but it also has a very positive
easier. On the other hand, marking a effect on the giver - spiritually,
year from the start of the first UK mentally, emotionally, and even
lockdown will be painful for some, physically. Whichever way you look
especially as many of us are likely to at it, finding
be experiencing restrictions or new ways to
ongoing hardships for quite some show kindness
time. We may need to find new ways to others can
to keep going, so here are some be a very
suggestions that draw on both effective way
science and Christian theology. to help
Getting outside ourselves feel
Time outdoors in a natural better too.
environment is very good for you – Gratitude
and you can’t argue with the happy Gratitude is another natural drug – in
hormones produced by exercise. a sense – that can help us feel
Attending to the details of nature better. Try keeping a grateful diary,
can also inspire awe, which has been adding a few things each day.
linked to positive mood, and
increased life satisfaction. Enjoying Laugh, sing, make music, dance
creation can also help us connect All of these activities are deeply
with God. rooted in our physical and mental
makeup. You may have forgotten
Looking outside how great they feel, especially in
If you are truly stuck indoors, try times of sadness, but we can learn
putting bird feeders outside your from children who do them very
window so creation comes to you. naturally.
This is also an act of kindness (see
below)! I hope these ideas may help bring us
closer to God, each other, and His
Lament and praise creation.
The Psalms are a rich resource to
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Sad News for the Please keep Ian, Lianne, Ami, Josh
and Wesley in your prayers."
Benefice I'll leave that with you for a
The following has been taken from the moment...
weekly newsletter emailed out on 5th Now, more than ever it is important
February, so many of you will already
have read it, but for those who
to look at our personal giving to our
haven’t... Parishes. Donations can be made
directly or through the Parish Giving
‘I do hope you are well. It's been a Scheme here. It is a myth that the
sad week here at the Benefice Office. Church of England is a wealthy
It's one year since we received the institution. The majority of the
devastating news that the roles of financial burden of church upkeep
Vicar's PA, Parish Administrator, and and the work of local parishes still
Families Minister were no longer rests with individual parishes and
financially sustainable, and our hearts dioceses, which meet their
went out to Andi, Kay and Chris. This requirements from donations. These
week we have more sad news for you. donations have fallen this year as we
Revd Matthew writes; have been unable to fundraise in our
"Friends, yesterday, Ian read the normal way, and with fewer
following statement at PCC: services the weekly offerings have
reduced.
"As part of the process to reduce
costs across all areas of diocesan Our Benefice is not an isolated case.
work, following discussion and These issues, spread across the
careful reflection, Ian has taken the Diocese have resulted in a shortfall
decision to offer his resignation. He that have resulted in a number of
will be leaving us on 30 June 2021. measures being taken to secure
Ian is excited about the prospect of a Winchester Diocese's financial
new challenge and he will be future. The beautiful Old Alresford
considering future opportunities Place has been vacated and
within the Diocese as they open up." the reorganisation of the Diocesan
The news was greeted with sadness Office is now complete. Sadly a
by PCC members at the prospect of number of valued colleagues no
longer have positions there. The cost
losing Ian whose ministry amongst us
cutting measures go further than that
was repeatedly described as
“inspirational”. I am personally very though, with 22 roles within the
sorry to lose a colleague with such a Diocese being affected by the
heart for mission and ‘unique’ sense reorganisation. A direct result of
of humour. Ian is not racing off, his these shortfalls is that from 30th June
last working day will be 30th June, there will only be one Stipend
unless he finds a new post sooner. Minister within the Benefice of
Ringwood.
We are first and foremost a family of
Christians and our task now is to pray With these changes it is a very
fervently for Ian to find the role that stressful period. Moving forward we
God, in his unfailing provision, has for need to increase our income. We
Ian. He will long remain a good friend need to work together to improve the
of Ringwood Benefice and I look financial situation as a whole so more
forward in the coming months to families are not affected by these
celebrating his ministry amongst us. cost-cutting measures.’
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Departing Thank you to Revd valuable they are to their
Ian Whitham communities at this time.”
As is our custom, there will be an The charity Age UK has said it
anonymous “Thank You” collection reckons there to be about 1.4million
for Ian Whitham on his departure. If older people in England who are
you wish to contribute to this, please “chronically lonely.”
contact the Treasurer, Stephen Gray
on 01425 473727, or give a donation Beware the cost of
in an envelope to him or a supermarket
Sidesperson at a service.”
Thank you
convenience stores
If you do your weekly food shop at a
Sad News for our own supermarket convenience store, you
will be paying up to £320 more a
Parish year than if you had used one of the
It is with much regret and sadness bigger branches.
that we heard of the recent passing According to a recent study by
of two long standing members of our Which? Tesco Express costs £5.37
congregation. more a week, or £279 a year, while
Gerry Milsted served our community Sainsbury’s Local stores cost £6.18
for many years including as a more a week, or £322 a year.
previous Churchwarden. We send our Tesco points to higher rents, rates
condolences to Vera, Carol, and his and operating costs in Tesco Express
family and friends. He will be much stores, while Sainsburys points to ‘a
missed. range of factors’ including varying
Peter Bennitt, supportive husband of promotions.
our very supportive lay pastor
Wendy, has also died. A dedicated Let’s clap for mothers!
family man who will be missed by As Mother’s Day approaches, let’s
Wendy, their children and hear it for all the mothers who have
grandchildren as well as their been on the frontline of helping our
friends. We send our condolences to country survive the Covid pandemic!
them too.
Just as we’ve clapped on our
Why not contact a doorsteps for the NHS and other
heroes, let’s applaud all that
lonely neighbour? mothers have done – often balancing
The public have been urged to write home and employment – during these
letters to their lonely neighbours, as long lockdown months.
the Government has announced a Research shows that mums have
£7.5million cash injection for carried out most of the home
community-boosting activities. schooling and household tasks – with
It is hoped that people will “reach many also holding down important
out virtually and help combat frontline roles in the NHS and other
loneliness”, says Robert Jenrick, the essential services.
Communities Secretary. This could Women spent more than twice as
be done either by “picking up the much time as men on their
phone or writing a letter.” children’s home schooling and
He urges, “Let’s all do what we can development during the lockdown,
to connect with our older according to a study by University
neighbours, in a Covid-secure way, College London. It measured how
so they feel less alone and know how parents responded while schools and
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nurseries were closed to most
families. This Mother’s Day, daffodils
Your daily walk should be
and chocolate may seem very thin a sacred ritual
reward for the major contribution of Under lockdown,
mums across our nation. millions of us who
Let’s also celebrate the vital roles rarely walked around
many also play – as do those without our immediate locality
children – in the NHS, in education, are now well
in the government and civil service, acquainted with every
in keeping vital supplies flowing – nearby driveway,
and in our pulpits and across our every crack in the pavement, and
churches. every pothole in the road. We have
developed views on our neighbours’
And for gardens, on their oddly coloured
fathers ... garage doors, and on their dogs,
children and cars. If we go out at the
When fathers work same time every day, we may even
with their children be saying hello to the same people
on puzzles, it helps we don’t know every day.
them grow closer,
because their For many of us, that daily walk has
brains ‘synchronise’. This leads them become the high point of our day.
to being more ‘psychologically in After all, it is one of the few
tune’ with each other. liberties we have left. Some of us go
early, to enjoy the relative peace
A study at the University of Essex and quiet. Some of us go midday, to
said that “the synchronising of brain at least see other people, even if we
activity is interesting, because we can’t talk to them. Others of us opt
knew it happened between mothers for dusk, the dark comfort of a
and children, but didn’t know if the street with lit houses and stars in the
same was true with fathers. sky.
“This is important for two reasons. It Whatever time you most enjoy, make
shows that men are biologically sure you do make the time to go for
wired to provide off-spring care; and your walk. Your mental and physical
second, dads are increasingly being fitness can only improve!
recognised as care-givers and
attachment figures to their
children.”
Ringwood Coronavirus Assistance
This group has collated a variety of information and
services available during this crisis and can arrange
practical support such as deliveries. If you need help, they
have a website:
ringwood-coronavirus.org.uk,
but can also be telephoned on 01425 542031.
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During the Covid-19 Crisis
In line with government and Church of England guidance, our church
buildings are mostly closed. However, as part of the Ringwood Benefice
family, we are still very much an active church.
We are praying and worshipping online, via social media such as Facebook,
You Tube and our website. We are also available to provide pastoral
support and information via telephone. Please see below for access details.
Here at All Saints, we are beginning our 10am in person services from
Sunday March 7th - see page 4.
Benefice website: ringwoodbenefice.org.uk
Worship & Prayer - on Facebook: facebook.com/ringwoodbenefice, also on
You Tube, search for Ringwood Benefice. Includes Sunday morning services
(at 9.30am, 10.30 for Sunday School and Wednesday morning 10.30am for
Holy Communion) streamed and available after streaming.
Facebook Pages & Groups – The Benefice, All Saints, Rev Matthew Trick
and Rev Ian Whitham are all on Facebook, where you can find live streams,
bible stories and ‘Heart of Worship’ to watch and follow.
Daily Hope – a new dial-in service provided by the Church of England on
0800 804 8044
† We now also have a local rate phone line 01425 543304 which is †
updated every week with notices, a local service and our Thought for the Day
for the current week.
Weekly Newsletter – email the Benefice Office to receive this
weekly update: office@ringwoodbenefice.org.uk .
GoodNews magazine – via email (send request to the address on page
5) or see on the Benefice website, under What’s On and News
Pastoral Care – if you would like to hear a friendly reassuring voice on
the end of the line, give Ruth Freeman a call on 01425 475645. She
can arrange for one of our Lay Pastors to keep in touch with you.
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In December we therefore launched
our first online Assembly series
called: Advent Adventures !
Each day from December 1st until
December 25th we recorded for St
Ives Primary, Ringwood Infant and
Ringwood Junior Schools, the
Christmas story.
Each day the short recordings
While we can no longer meet in focused on the characters of the
person at Messy Church, and share Holy Family and their perilous
fellowship, craft, and a meal, we journey to Bethlehem. Along the
have had to devise other ways of way, the story included the evil plots
meeting with our families. of ‘Mad Bad Herod’, the clever but
slightly gullible Wise Men, the
To begin with we joined with the excited angels, and the shocked
rest of the benefice in doing a shepherds.
virtual session on the facebook page,
but I felt we weren’t meeting the The stories were told by Ringwood
needs of our families, and so in Benefice’s Vicar Revd Matthew
September we started doing Messy Trick, curate Revd Kay Pead and
Church in a bag. Minister in Training, Sandra
Matthews, all of whom brought a
This has meant a lot more little bit of humour to the story
organising, both filming the crafts, telling.
the talk and the links, before
collecting all the items we needed (If you’d like to see any of these
for the crafts and putting them into stories, they are still available on
the bags to take round to each child. the Ringwood Benefice website :
www.ringwoodbenefice.org.uk).
We started in September, and to
begin with we only had 11 children Based on the positive feedback we
asking for a bag, but this has received, we launched the follow on
gradually increased over the months programme called: The Jesus
we have been doing it, and now we Adventures !
send out 35 bags. Each week, the same team of
The doorstep conversation, from a enthusiasts record assemblies for the
safe distance, has been invaluable, schools that focus on the life and
and the children have been excited miracles of Jesus. The series runs
to receive the bags. until the last day of Term, Thursday
31st March.
The next one will be featured on our
church Facebook page on March Although the Ministry Team miss
21st. telling the stories ‘live’ to the
children, online Assemblies have
Hilary proved to be a great substitute.
With Easter now fast approaching, I
Local School wonder what the team may be
offering schools next Term? Rumours
Assemblies are circulating that it might be the
During Lockdown, so much of our Apostles Adventures !
work at All Saints Church has had to But I think we shall have to wait and
adapt and this has included our see.
involvement with local schools. Sandra
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Cont’d from page 5 struggled to experience the manifest
support, intently looking at each presence of God in such an
other and listening. Yet there is still environment and so they withdrew
a desire for a presence that goes into the deserts of Egypt, Sinai and
beyond this. Palestine.
God’s Absence in the Desert One such desert monk is Anthony of
I’m writing this in the season of Lent, Egypt who wrote:
a time when we walk with Jesus The person who abides in solitude
who, following his baptism with John and quiet is delivered from fighting
the Baptist, was driven by the Spirit three battles: hearing, speech, and
out in the wilderness - into the sight. Then there remains one battle
barren place. I’ve driven (well, been to fight - the battle of the heart.
driven) through the desert wilderness My suggestion is that in modern
of Sinai and I remember the living, it’s abundantly possible to
sensation of being in a barren experience the absence of God not
landscape. This wasn’t a landscape because God isn’t present, but
of hills and valleys lush with trees, because we hear, talk and see too
birds and vegetation, this was rock much that distracts. To go back to
and sand and little else. Except for my earlier analogy, it’s often the TV
monks, well some anyway. being on that stops my daughter
St Catherine’s Monastery, home to from being aware of my presence in
the bush Moses saw burning, is in this the room.
wilderness of Sinai. We often talk Overcoming the Absence of God
about experiencing the presence of At the start of the bible in the book
God as we look out over beautiful of Genesis, God shows himself to be
scenescapes like forests or present in the creation of land, sea,
coastlines. But in the desert all life sky, animals and human beings. This
and the presence of God can feel is why Christians claim God as
absent. omnipresent (always present) in all
Yet, in the 4th Century, the Edit of creation and humanity.
Milan in 313 AD, effectively made The way to overcome feelings that
Christianity the state religion of the God is absent is to prioritise our
Roman Empire. No longer the seeking of God’s presence. In
preserve of a few persecuted Chapter 6 of Matthew’s Gospel, the
Christians meeting in private homes writer flips our need of basics like
or in the open air, now everyone food, drink and clothing on its head
became a ‘nominal’ Christian writing:
because well, if the Emperor was a
Christian and you wanted (rather But seek first his kingdom and his
wisely) to stay on the good-side of righteousness, and all these things
the Emperor, you called yourself a will be added to you as well.
Christian. Or as Anthony of Egypt suggested, try
You’d have thought that with the for as much time as you, your family,
explosion in the number of Christians your commitments can spare to
it would be easy to detect the retreat each day to a place where
presence of God and almost hearing, sight and speech are
impossible to claim God’s absence. removed and intentionally incline
But this was nominalism; many would your heart to God and you will
call themselves Christian in the 4th become manifestly aware, that God
Century in the same way that people is already present and always was.
when asked on census’ for their Blessings,
religion put ‘Church of England’. A Matthew
growing number of Christians
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Ashley Heath W.I. member of the Ashley Heath W.I.,
and was our Secretary for many
Your Committee hopes that all our years, well before the ‘digital’ age,
Members have been staying safe and so all Minutes recorded by
staying well, and that the majority hand. Our thoughts and prayers are
of our Members have had their first with her family at this sad time.
Covid-19 vaccination. It is pleasing It is with much sadness that we have
to report that on 9th February 2021, heard of the death of Mr Gerald
your Committee held a ‘Zoom’ W.I. Milsted, beloved husband of Vera
Committee meeting; the first one in Milsted. Gerry was a ‘community’
a year! It was a very successful person, who did so much for St
meeting and the next ‘Zoom’ Leonards and St Ives, and gave of his
Committee meeting will be held on time selflessly to so many local
2nd March 2021. Following that, on Organisations. Our thoughts and
TUESDAY, 9th MARCH 2021 at 2.30 prayers are with Vera and her family
p.m. our first ‘Zoom’ W.I. MEMBERS’ at this sad time.
MEETING will take place. Very
exciting news and we look forward Just a reminder to members that,
to ‘seeing’ you all on the 9th March when we can meet ‘face to face’
2021. This ‘initial’ meeting will be a again, our monthly meetings will be
‘catch up’ one and hearing all about held on the SECOND TUESDAY of
what Members have been doing every month (except August) IN THE
during the Lockdowns i.e., recipes, LARGE HALL at BRAESIDE, in THE
gardening, book reviews AFTERNOON at 2.30 p.m. New
etc,. Obviously, as soon as we can members will always be most
meet ‘face to face’ safely you will welcome.
be the first to know….. Until we meet again …
Our W.I. Membership year will Sue Burt
commence on 1st APRIL 2021 and
this year the Subscription for the
year will be £44.00 due on 1st April
2021.
Thank you to Mrs Geraldine Bowles,
Secretary, for continuing as Editor of
the Ashley Belles Newsletters, and to
all the members who regularly
contribute items. Such a variety of
topics covered and all very
interesting, informative and
sometimes very amusing. Eleven
members took part in a ‘Zoom’
coffee meeting last month. Thanks
go to Mrs Elaine Haworth, who
organised it. It was good to ‘see’
everyone.
It is with much sadness that we have
heard of the death of Mrs Shelagh
Calvert. Shelagh was a long standing
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Helpful Age UK Lunch
Volunteer Club
Age UK Bournemouth,
Services Poole and East Dorset
now run the lunch
Ringwood Good club held in Braeside
Neighbours hall on Mondays from
operates for those 10am to 3pm—see
living in the BH24 post their advert
code area and So if you are lonely or just in need of
provides assistance for those
needing help in getting to medical something to do, either as a member
related appointments in the locality. or a volunteer, please ring 01202
A weekly co-ordinator takes the calls 530530 or pop into the village hall on
and finds a volunteer driver to take a Monday. We look forward to
the client to the appointment, wait hearing from you.
for them, and return the client to
his/her home afterwards. No charge
Talking Newspaper
is made for this service, although Do you know somebody who is blind,
donations are welcomed to help partially sighted or just has difficulty
cover the drivers’ petrol costs. 48 in reading more than the headlines
hours notice is required to allow for and would like to be informed about
finding a suitable driver. local news? If you do, pleases send
their details to : Ringwood and
Volunteer Befriending Fordingbridge Talking News, c/o
Scheme is a FREE service Ringwood Medical Centre, The Close,
introduced recently to help those in Ringwood BH 24 1JY. or phone their
the community who would benefit details to Peter Ansell 01425 475886
from some help or some company, as or Stephanie Matthews 01425 477110
and when needed. Clients will be or e-mail: peteransell@ onetel.com.
visited to discuss their needs and try The service is Free and free postal
to match them with a volunteer,
who may be needed on a regular or return envelopes are provided and a
new CD arrives every fortnight.
occasional basis.
All the volunteers are Police checked Difficulty Getting to
and have identification available for Ringwood Library?
clients to see, if they so wish. If anyone has difficulty in getting to
If you think you, your neighbour, Ringwood library through illness or
your friends or a relative would mobility problems, they should
benefit from either or both of these contact the library and ask to speak
services, then please contact 07933 to Pam. She can organize for books
202112 to obtain further to be delivered and collected to/
information. from people's homes via the RVS
(formerly the WRVS).
Volunteer drivers and befrienders
are always needed, so if you can
help, then please see the advert
opposite.
Frankie Hester
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East Dorset Ferndown
& Ringwood PROBUS Club
NHS
Retirement Ferndown Probus Club is a local
Fellowship association for retired and semi-
retired professional and business
The East Dorset & Ringwood men.
Branch of the NHS Retirement We meet on the first Wednesday of
Fellowship is for all those (and their each month at Dudsbury Golf Club,
families and friends) who have Ferndown, commencing at 12 noon.
worked in any health or social care Meetings comprise a three-course
profession and aims to support its luncheon followed by a talk, on a
diverse range of subjects, given by
members through the provision of invited Speakers.
social, leisure, educational and
welfare activities. It gives the We also hold a coffee morning at
opportunity to meet and spend time the same venue on the second
with other like-minded people. Wednesday of each month for
members and their partners.
Every month we listen to a speaker
or have a “members’ morning”. Social events for members, their
From time to time we also arrange partners and also for guests, are
outings to local attractions and arranged throughout the year and
national places of interest or may include outings to places of
interest, restaurant lunches or
organise group meals at nearby dinners, buffet or picnic events,
restaurants. Members receive a skittles competitions or a host of
regular national and branch other fun gatherings.
newsletter and may also benefit
New members will be made most
from the discounts offered on
welcome at this friendly club. For
various cruises and holidays, UK and further information please ring the
worldwide travel insurance and a Secretary, Alan Stevens, on 01202
variety of financial services. 876826, or contact us via our
We meet at 10:00 am on the website:
www.ferndownprobusclub.org
second Tuesday of each month at
the St. Leonards Village Hall,
Braeside Road, BH24 2PH.
For a friendly chat and further Please note that, due to Covid-
information please contact our 19, meetings for both
Branch Secretary, Jenny, on 01202 organisations have been
876560 or joh2lou@talktalk.net or suspended for the time being.
alternatively our Membership
Secretary, Helen, on 01425 480202
or at h.nield@btinternet.com
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Sudoku
Each box and each
line must contain
the numbers 1-9
only once.
Solution:
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Ringwood Good
Neighbours
Urgently needed…
Volunteer drivers to take elderly
and infirm people in the local
community to medical
appointments and befrienders for
lonely and housebound
neighbours.
If you think you could help, please
ring 01425 474395 for further
information and a friendly chat.
Expenses are paid, only a couple
of hours occasionally is asked of
you, if you are available.
Ringwood Foodbank
to support local families in need
No area is immune to household economic problems and the need for
people not to feel belittled by seeking help is fundamental to the
cause.
Food donations of ...
Milk (UHT or powdered) * sugar (500g and 1kg) * fruit juice (long
life) - cartons * tinned soups * pasta sauces * puddings (tinned) *
tomatoes (tinned) * rice puddings (tinned) * cereals * tea bags *
instant coffee * instant mashed potato * rice * pasta * meat
(tinned) * fish (tinned) * fruit (tinned) * jam * biscuits * snack bars
can be left in the Narthex
For more details speak to our
Foodbank Co-ordinator, Bill Seward
Thank You
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Understanding Investments:
Inheritance Tax & the Confidence to Act!
The first step to effective Inheritance Tax exemptions which result
(IHT) mitigation is to know how much in immediate removal
money you need for your own lifetime. Once from the estate.
you have identified this, you will have more
5-Solutions to Howard Goodship
confidence to act and take action.
mitigate your
I have met many people over the years who estate’s IHT liability. Potentially Exempt
know they need to do something to reduce the Transfers (PET), Chargeable Lifetime Transfers
value of their estate as they don’t want to pay a (CLT), Trusts, packaged solutions such as Loan
high IHT bill, but they fail to act in good time. Trusts and Discounted Gift Trusts. There are a
It wasn’t because they weren’t aware of IHT number of solutions available and the most
(often they had been thinking about what to do appropriate will be dependent on your personal
for years), but they simply failed to have the situation.
confidence to act!
6-Insuring any remaining liability. Whole of
I help clients by following a simple process, at Life cover can pay a future IHT liability and if
the end of which they understand whether their written in trust, is paid out immediately without
own retirement and lifetime needs are secure the need for probate. It can provide liquidity to
and if so, are able to put in place a plan of how the beneficiaries to pay any IHT liability.
to mitigate future IHT on their estate. I will
Sometimes, making simple changes to your
share this with you.
current investments and planning is
1-What do you need? We run cash-flow sufficient. For example, pensions are
projections (including inflation assumptions), currently outside the estate so perhaps to
based on your regular expenditure, predicted ad stop drawing income from them and spend
-hoc expenditure and later life planning needs surplus savings instead may be favourable.
such as care fees. My colleague Stewart Sims-Handcock and I
are available for a free initial, no obligation
2-Identify surplus capital or income. The
chat to discuss your personal requirements.
cash-flow projections help identify whether you
We are able to do this in a variety of ways,
have more capital or income that you are likely
taking account of any current COVID
to need. We quantify what is surplus and
restrictions.
consider the most effective way to pass this
down to your families and reduce your future Howard Goodship is an Independent Financial
IHT liability. Adviser with Lonsdale Wealth Management,
5 Fridays Court, Ringwood. Tel: 01425 208490
3-Ensure Wills are up to date and tax
www.lonsdaleservices.co.uk
efficient. This is done by referral to a solicitor
and includes ensuring they allow the estate to The value of an investment and the income from it
benefit from all relevant IHT exemptions, could go down as well as up. The return at the end of
the investment period is not guaranteed and you may
including the Residential Nil Rate Band
get back less than you originally invested. The
(RNRB), where available. contents of this article are for information purposes
4-Utilise annual gift exemptions. Usually you only and do not constitute individual advice. The
need to live for a further 7 years from the date Financial Conduct Authority does not regulate Cash
Flow Plans or Cash Flow Modelling.
of any gifts but there are currently several
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Organisations of the Church Centre Residents Associations
Church Flower Guild Sec. Grange Estate (Mrs. J. White) 01202 873620
(Mrs. B. Davies) 01425 475700 St. Leonards (Sth) (Mrs. Dyer) 01202 874918
All Saints Parent & Toddler Group Other Organisations
(Jane Chick) 01425 473177 Ex-Services Club 01425 472087
Braeside Bridge Club - Tuesday evenings Ringwood & Fordingbridge Club for the Blind
(Mr. J. Jackson) 01425 461661 Chairman: Russel Webb 01425 476618
Secretary: Kate Henderson 01425 476568
Village Hall Website: www.rfbc.co.uk
Bookings/Administrator (Clementine Pestell)
01425 472499 or 07847 430815 GENERAL INFORMATION
Post Office 01425 472046
Organisations of the Village Hall Out of Hours GP Services
Age UK Lunch Club Breaside Day Centre- Call the NHS help line 111
Mondays 10am-3pm In the Annex
01202 530530 (Dorset & Hampshire)
or email: enquiries@ageukbped.org.uk
Chemists –Late Opening
Badminton Club (Mrs Derbyshire)01425 479908 Lloyds Pharmacy, Parkers Close, Ringwood
Braeside Bowling Club Open 8.30am-6.30pm weekdays, 9am-12.30pm
Saturdays (closed Sundays) 01425 474196
(Brian Morrell) 01202 828614
Boots, Tricketts Cross (next to Sainsbury’s)
Heatherlands Short Mat Bowls Club
Open 9am- 7pm weekdays,
(Anne Chater—eves only) 01202 520115
8.30am-5.30pm Saturdays and
Home Watch Assoc. www.2saints.org.uk
10.00am-4pm Sundays 01202871841
Brian Frecknall (Chair) 01425 476558
Ferndown Pharmacy, 487 Ringwood Road
email v.frecknall@btopenworld.com (next to Motabitz). Mon-Sat 7am-11pm, Sun
(Also see Facebook Group: St Leonards and St 10am-2pm 01202 892666
Ives Parish Homewatch)
National Health Service Retirement Fellowship Buses
(Dierdre) 01425 472940 Wilts & Dorset Bus Services: Only route 38,
which runs between Ferndown and Ringwood,
Internet Café (Fridays 9am-12.30pm
now stops in the area. For details see
(Mr. G. Ledbrook) 01425 474849 timetables online at www.wdbus.co.uk
Tennis Club (Paul Handford) 07709 821006 Or phone 01983 827005
Women’s Institute (Ashley Heath)
(Elizabeth Layet) 01425 478884 Libraries
Ferndown Library 01202 874542
Scouts, Cubs & Beavers
stleonardsandstivesscouts.org.uk Ringwood Library 0845 6035631
(In Scout HQ behind Hall) West Moors Library 01202 873272
Max 07972 685213
Police Phone Numbers
Schools Ferndown Police Station 01202 855544
St. Ives Primary School, Sandy Lane, St.Ives Or 01202 552099
01425 475478
St. Ives Pre-School (in school grounds) Please let us know (01425 471335 or
07799 188712 allsaints.goodnews@gmail.com) if any of this
information is incorrect or if you would like
details of your local community organisation to
be mentioned.
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IN A BAG
Receive a little bag of craft materials before
watching the online Messy Church session from
the All Saints team. To register an interest e-
mail: lisa.hover@ringwoodbenefice.org.uk
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Boarding Kennels & Cattery
217 Ringwood Road St Leonards
Ringwood Hants BH24 2QB
Tel: 01202 873664
large individual chalets sited in their own
spacious runs for all dogs
luxury, purpose-built suites with comfort
and safety in mind for all cats
Inspection encouraged at any time during
opening hours
Monday to Saturday 9 – 5.30pm
Sunday 10 – 11am and 4 – 5pm
Under the same family ownership since 1962
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