Our Activities

From 11 – 18 years of age

St Mildred’s actively welcomes children and young people and seeks to involve them in all areas of our work and mission. The following activities may be particular of interest to young people:

• Sunday School – as a member or a helper
• Prayer and Praise – both in regular services and special events
• Serving at Holy Communion services
• Choir and worship band

Contact the Parish Office for more info on how you can be involved or help with activities.

We also organise regular activities and outings for young people. These are advertised in the weekly church newsletter or contact a member of the youth ministry team via the Parish Office for information of the next activity.

Richard Mander is our Organist/Director of Music – taking up his post in September 2016.

 Previous Directors include Jan Pringle, Derek Dorey, Tim Horton, Martin How and Paul Spicer.

St Mildred’s Church Choir is comprised of boys, girls, men and women from age 6 upwards. It sings the Sunday morning services, evening services twice a month, occasional Festival evening services and also special events, e.g. weddings, funerals etc.

 St Mildred’s Church Choir has, for nearly 40 years, undertaken to sing the services at cathedrals all over the country mainly during the absence on holiday of the various Cathedral Choirs. It has for instance sung at Wells on a number of occasions, also at Portsmouth, York Minster, Ely, Gloucester, Bath Abbey, Winchester and Worcester to name but a few.

 There is an active Choir Association devoted to raising money to fund the Cathedral visits. The Choir has been affiliated to the Royal School of Church Music for over 60 years (and marked this with a Grand Celebration Concert on 10th May 2008).

 

Choir Practice

Junior Choir practices:

Tuesday 5:30 – 6.00pm choir club followed by choir practice 6.00 – 7.00pm – in the Music Room

Friday 7.30pm to 8.30pm- in the Music Room

Full Choir practice

Friday 8.00 – 9.00pm in the Music room 

Ladies’ Choir

 The Ladies’ Choir entertains various groups, both at St Mildred’s and at other Churches and regularly sings for the Women’s World Day of Prayer service held on the first Friday in March in Croydon.

For more information about our choirs, please contact our Director of Music by email.

Help support St Mildred’s by making a suggested, gift-aidable, donation of £25 per annum to Church funds. You will be kept up to date with what is happening through your 10 complementary copies of the Parish Post.

You can also tailor your involvement by requesting which special information you would like to receive – e.g. children’s activities, musical events, special services etc.

For further details download the forms or  contact the Parish Office.

Those who wish to follow a regular programme of Bible Readings can obtain booklets to help them. Some booklets are bi-monthly, some quarterly and some 4-monthly; but all paid for annually.

For further details contact the Parish Office

This is our parish magazine where you can find out what our church groups are doing plus details of any social events. The magazine also includes articles of general interest. A sample can be found here

The Parish Post can be obtained from Church for 50p per issue (10 per year) or by joining the Friends of St Mildred’s (see above) and having it delivered to you.

If you would like to submit an article for publication, please email or write to the Parish Office.  Copy deadline is the second Tuesday of the preceding month.

The Lit meets in The Pavilion every Tuesday from October to April. 7.30pm – 9.30pm

Subscription for the season is £30, Non-Members £3 per meeting (includes tea and biscuits)

The 2018/19 Programme can be found here.

St Mildred’s hosts a Drop-in for the homeless and needy on Sundays.

For further information, please tap here

Our branch of this major Christian Charity (tap here for more details) meets on the first Thursday of each month in the Lady Chapel – a range of times  – sometimes from 10.45 – 12.15, sometimes  from 2pm – 4pm. Occasionally 8pm.

See our St Mildred’s Mothers’ Union programme for details.

This is a ‘Community Cafe’ serving Fairtrade tea/coffee with a delicious menu including bacon butties and homemade cakes.
All are welcome.

1st Saturday in each month from 10am – 12  noon.

The Women’s Group meets in the Small Hall on the 3rd Thursday of each month – generally at 8:00 pm – unless stated otherwise.

Tap here for more details of the current programme.

At St Mildred’s we are planning to play a part in answer to the prayer ‘Give us this day our daily bread’ by helping our local food bank.

How a food bank works

Frontline care professionals identify people in need: Care professionals such as doctors, health visitors, social workers, CAB and police identify people in crisis and issue them with a foodbank voucher. Foodbanks partner with a wide range of care professionals who are best placed to assess need and make sure that it is genuine.

Clients receive food: Foodbank clients bring their voucher to a foodbank centre where it can be redeemed for three days emergency food. Volunteers meet clients over a cup of tea or free hot meal and are able to signpost people to agencies able to solve the longer-term problem.

How YOU can help

You can help St Mildreds by downloading the shopping list here and bringing the goodies into church week by week.

Consider joining a rota of volunteers to deliver the food to the food bank.

Thank you

Groups meet fortnightly with time to unwind over tea or coffee, to consider an aspect of the Christian faith, perhaps using the Bible, or a DVD, and to pray. Nobody is required to say anything or to pray aloud – it’s a matter of personal choice. Nobody is ever ‘put on the spot’! But the time is one of relaxed mutual trust and care.

Our Home Groups, meet fortnightly on Wednesdays – groups meeting in the mornings and in the evenings – and on Thursday evenings.

There is a list at the back of church where you can register your interest and find out more.

Or you can contact the Parish Office for further details.