The Junior Church have been awarded a grant from the Churchill Memorial Trust, a charity that supports local charities, schools and community groups. The charity raises money each year with a prestigious concert at Blenheim Palace. The Junior Church was represented at the concert by our minister Rev Martin Wellings and our leader Mrs Pat Clapton. Two of our children sold programmes to the distinguished guests. The grants was awarded at a ceromony at the Palace. You can see two Junior Church members in the photo below: Hannah in the blue jumper in the front row and Paul, the one who's a foot taller than everyone else!
12 July 2001
The Junior Church have received a grant of £500 from West Oxfordshire District Council to spend on lighting equipment for the church. The Junior Church have already spend £2,000 on a lighting grid for the church. The WODC grant will be matched with a similiar ammount of money from the Junior Church and will be used to
Bladon Methodist Church has been a busy place over the last few months. For two weeks the main part of the church was in complete chaos as the vestibule was pulled down and given a steel frame. The original wood work was then replaced over this frame. This means we can use the top of the vestibule for our productions without the use of half a dozen acro-props The installation of proper stairs means we can also use it as an overflow gallery for popular events such as our Candelit Concert. The work was timed to co-inside with a United Service with our friends at St Martin's so we had a clear 2 week window without a Sunday service! We have
May 2002
The Junior Church has received a second of grant of £500 from the West Oxfordshire District Council Arts Department. This money will be matched by a similiar amount from the Junior Church and will be spent on lighting equipment. This is part of a 4-year project to provide a fully equiped lighting rig at the church which will be used as a resource for local groups. A similar grant was also received last year.
July 2002
Have you ever spent a night in a church? Twenty members of Bladon Junior Church have! In July we held a church sleepover event where we played lots of games in Blenheim Park before spending the night in the church.Read all about it and see some photographs by clicking on the picture of the ghost on the left
August 2002
The Junior Church has adpoted a Mongoose at the Cotswold Wildlife Park near Burford. We ran a webpoll in the members section and the Mongoose Party narrowly beat the Parrot Party, despite some frantic campaigning. Click on the Mongoose to see a picture of our adoptee.
also had a lot of electrical work done, mainly providing a dedicated 100 Amp supply for our stage lighting. This is now on its own phase and completely separate from all the other electrical circuits. Finally, the toilets have been redecorated and now look really presentable!. Although the eventual aim is to rebuild the toilet block this is still a couple of years off and meanwhile a refurbishment was definitely overdue.
October 2002
Our autumn production was the Andrew Lloyd Weber hit musical Jesus Christ Superstar. Read more about the show and see some pictures by clic king on the Superstar logo or here
January 2003
We celebrated the 94th birthday of our eldest church member, Edith Moss, who has been attending Bladon Church since she was a child. Click on the birthday cake to see a few pictures of Edith celebrating her birthday with the children of the Junior Church.
June 2003
The Junior Church visited the Oxford Bus Museum in Long Hanborough who have a large collection of vintage buses and coaches. Click on the bus on the left to see some pictures.
During the 4 week trip, Jenny spent her time helping in orphanages, schools and hospitals, carrying out refurbishment work and teaching English. To see a couple of photographs of Jenny 'in action' read in.
October 2003
Junior Church member Jenny Davies managed to raise £3,000 for a World Challenge trip to Malawi in South East Africa.
October 2003
Our 2003 production was the musical Annie that ran for 5 performances at the end of October. To see a few photos from the show click on the Annie logo.
March 2004
Read all about this concert and see lots of photographs by clicking on the dancer on the left.
May 2004
We went on a trip to Drayton Manor Theme Park in Staffordshire where there are some awesome rides! See some pictures and read about the rides here or click on the Drayton Manor logo on the right.
May 2004
We took part in a Sports Service at Lime Walk Church in Headington, Oxford. Guest star at the service was Linvoy Primus from premiership club Portsmouth Football Club. Click here or on the Portsmouth FC logo to see a couple of pictures.
July 2004
Read about our Sponsored Sing where we sung one hundred songs to raise money for our Junior Church. Click here or on the notes on the right. Also in July, the sun shone down as we led an Open-Air Service on Bladon Village Green - see a few pictures here.
purchase dimming equipment and to increase the number of lamps we own. In the long term it will save money on hire costs and it will also be a useful resource for other local groups.
