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News & Events
The tea towel goes to the Roadshow!
Some images from our day at the Leeds Roadshow. See if you can spot the tea towel: on the steps before the doors of Leeds Town Hall opened; being presented to our CEO Reg Bailey, to our Worldwide President Rosemary Kempsell, and to our Provincial President Lynn Tembey! And see our mailing list for an early announcement about a brand new tea towel competition!
Here are a few more images from the Roadshow... (hover your mouse cursor over the picture for a description)
Tea towel finally born!
If it were a baby it would be a baby elephant - don't they have two year pregnancies? But some two years after we first thought of the idea we have finally taken delivery of York Diocesan tea towels! No wonder Liz Clark, our Marketing Unit Coordinator, looks pleased!
The delay was due to a number of factors beyond our control, including the new Mothers Uniopn logo which mader us redesign the thing from scratch! But at £3.00 each they are not only good quality tea towels at a great price, they are also great talking points and advertisements for Mothers' Union! So, says Liz, every Branch should have at least one...!
Mothers' Union flood gifts to International Rescue
When the news broke in late June 2007 of severe flooding in Hull and Filey, Mothers' Union members world-wide, from places as far away as Papua New Guinea, spontaneously and generously sent gifts for the victims. Some of the money was used to refurbish and restock a community laundry service situated at St Michael's Church, Hull, then, after discussions with local councils and other aid agencies, and with the permission of the Charities Commission, it was decided to offer help to International Rescue Corps to be used for future flood rescue work.
Mothers' Union is therefore to buy ten complete kits of survival gear for the flood rescue work which International Rescue Corps is increasingly called out to help with. Two of their volunteers, Simon Drayton and Julie Ryan, presented to Mothers' Union members at their biannual Diocesan Council meeting films about the work of the charity including live footage of their flood rescue work in Hull last year.
In the picture: Janet Andrews, Mothers' Union Diocesan President in the Diocese of York, inspects an example of the ten survival kits which Mohters' Union in the Diocese of York is giving to International Rescue Corps. Also in the picture are Julie Ryan and Simon Drayton, International Rescue Corps volunteers.
New Branch dedicated at Staxton
On Trinity Sunday a new Mothers' Union Branch was dedicated at St Peter's, Willerby. Drawing members from the united benefice of St Peter, Willerby, St John, Folkton and St Nicholas Ganton the branch takes its name from the village of Staxton for which St Peter's is the parish church.
The dedication was conducted by the incumbent, The Revd Ken Holding, assisted by The Revd Dr Trevor Jordan and Miss Janet Andrews, Diocesan President. Jenny Jordan was confirmed as the new Branch Leader.
Here are some of the congregation with members and friends from around the Deanery and the Diocese:
And here is Janet Andrews with the obligatory celebration cake, and Marion Banks who played the organ for us:
