News and events
Can you help save the Tower of St Mary’s?
Please click here for more details.
Fundraising for the Tower Project
A dinner and auction of promises is to be held at Newick Park on Sunday, 18th July.
Ride & Stride - Sussex Historic Churches Trust have an annual sponsored bike ride/walk (wheelchairs and horseriders also welcome!) around churches in Sussex. This year it takes place on Saturday, 11th September, 9am - 6pm. Get sponsored for number of churches visited or distance travelled - the money you raise will be split between your nominated church or chapel and the Trust. Please contact Ian Reekie for details (phone number on the last of the ‘white pages’ of the Parish News, or by email using the address at the foot of this page).
Heber Opera will be giving a concert in the Church on Friday, 15th October.
Please support these events if you are able.
Pastoral Care
If you have been ill, if you are lonely, elderly or housebound, or if you know someone who would like a visit, please call Jo Wood (phone number on the last of the ‘white pages’ of the Parish News, or by email using the address at the foot of this page).
Restful retreats
There are several places not too far away where you can visit to receive teaching or to 'recharge your batteries'.
Day courses (and longer) are run at: Ashburnham Place, Penshurst Retreat Centre and Crowhurst Healing Centre, all near Battle; Burrswood Place, Groombridge; Pilgrim Hall near Halland; Hook Hall, Uckfield.
Some of these are also run as retreat centres where you can have a really restful break.
Parish magazine - help required!
We could do with a bit more help on two fronts: Assembling the magazine (about 2 hours on the afternoon of the Tuesday before the last Sunday of the month) and distributing - delivering magazines once a month, plus collecting subs once a year. Please email (address below) for details. Alternatively, perhaps you could volunteer to stand in once or twice a year to cover someone's round during holidays or sickleave?
Dancing for Fun and Fitness
Dance and exercise sessions suitable for ladies 'of a certain age', aimed at improving flexibility, mobility, balance, fitness, bone density and general wellbeing. The cost is only £2 per session.
Gentle exercise, movement and dance for fun and fitness: Wednesdays 11am - 12.30pm, St Mary's Barn Centre
Fridays 2.30pm - 4pm, St Mary's Barn Centre
The sessions are sponsored by St Mary's Church, Sport Relief, and Wealden Healthcare PCT. For more information please get in touch with Patsy Bailey, or use the email address at the foot of this page.
Church appeal fund
We are very grateful to all those who have been able to contribute towards the renovations, together with the following bodies for grants awarded:
Allchurches Trust Limited
Garfield
Weston Foundation
Gatwick
Airport Community Trust
Sussex Historic Churches Trust
Viridor
Credits Environmental Company
and for all the work done by the Friends
of St Mary's Church.
The church tower and the lightning conductor are our next priorities.
We extend our very grateful thanks
to all those who have
donated so far, while we continue to appeal for more money to come in.
English parish churches are an essential part of our landscape, and our
visitors' book records visits from people all over the world. Records
show that there was a church in Newick in the year 1080. One Norman
window still survives. The chancel was added around the time of the
Battle of Lewes, 1264. The porch dates from about 1400, with the tower
being added soon after. The church has been a focal point of the
village for so many generations, but it's not all history! We want the
church to be useful, warm and welcoming today, and in a good state to
hand on to those who come after us. We want to keep it open for
weddings, christenings and funerals as well as for weekly worship.
Without care and repair that won't be possible.
If you are able to help by making a donation - perhaps in memory of a
loved one - please use the email address at the foot of this page, for
a Gift Aid form and details of where to send donations. Thank you.
Weekly Prayer Group
A small group meets regularly at Cobbs Nest Farmhouse, Newick, to pray together for our church and the community it serves. We have been meeting on Mondays at 2pm for about half-an-hour of open prayer, followed by tea and coffee for those wishing to stay on for discussion afterwards. Anyone is welcome to come and go as their time allows - it is totally informal. Pleae speak to Kate Francis if you would like to be involved but prefer a different day and/or time. (The times given here may change, so do please check first!)
Open House
If you're feeling down in the dumps, lonely, sad or grieving
for a
departed relative or friend, you might like to join us at Newick
Community Centre on the fourth Thursday of the month, 3.00-4.30pm. We
offer tea, cakes and friendly company. Come for the whole time or just
drop in for part of it. We'll be very pleased to see you. (These 'Open
House' meetings are organised and funded by the Newick TLC Team.)
Newick Distress Trust
The Trust, which is a registered charity, was founded in 1984 and since its foundation has helped many individuals and families in the village who have been in critical financial need. Anyone wishing to apply for assistance, or to obtain further information, should speak to one of the Trustees who can be contacted by emailing the address below, and this will of course be treated in the strictest confidence.
Give us a ring . . .
We're still on the lookout for new ringers. You do not have to be a church-goer to join us, so if you would like to give it a try, please get in touch with Allen Lucas (his phone number is in the Parish Magazine - or use the email address at the foot of this page), he'd be delighted to hear from you!
Projector
We would like to have a projector to show PowerPoint presentations to help us with our Young People's work. If you can help us by donating one, please email us at the address below.
Forthcoming attractions
PCC meetings 2010, 7.30pm - 12th July, 13th September, 15th November
If you have any items of news regarding the Church or know of a Church event that you would like to see published here, please email details to