SVBB News Update 14 August 2026
Services this Week – Sunday 16 August – Trinity 11
9.00am Kencot Holy Communion
10.30am Alvescot Family Holy Communion
10.30am Shilton Holy Communion
Please note that there are no Evensong services in August
Christ Church Corporate Communion service, tea and supper invitation to all our parishioners.
You are warmly invited to a Corporate Communion at Christ Church Cathedral in Oxford on the evening of Wednesday 30 September. The service will be preceded by tea and a talk by the Reverend Canon Professor William Whyte, Professor of Social and Architectural History, and will be followed by dinner in the Great Hall. Christ Church holds the right of presentation for some eighty livings across the country and is extending an invitation to the congregations of them all for an evening of collective worship, fellowship and hospitality. There will be a small charge of £17.50 towards the cost of dinner but the afternoon and evening are otherwise free of charge. The programme is as follows:
16:30 – 17:00 Arrival and Tea, Great Hall
17:00 – 17:40 Talk, Great Hall
18:05 – 19:00 Choral Eucharist, Cathedral
19:05 – 19:25 Drinks Reception, Cathedral Garden (or Cathedral, if wet)
19:30 – 21:00 Dinner, Great Hall
21:15 Carriages
Trish Chadwick (shillvalley.broadshire@aol.co.uk) is kindly liaising with Christ Church. Please contact her by Sunday 6 September if you wish to join the trip.