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The Week Ahead
Wednesday 23rd October
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Thursday 24th October
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Friday 25th October
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Saturday 26th October
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Tuesday 29th October
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Wednesday 30th October
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St Michael's is an Eco Church
Community & Global
We are engaging with, and participating in, local networks and events:
LCON Climate Cafe Summertown
Space to just talk about climate change and how it is making us think and feel.
Meet up over hot drinks and cake at the Bike Shed, Summertown
Sat 26th October 3.30 - 5pm.
RSVP and more details here …
Climate Change Eco Fair North Oxford
Explore all the information you need to individually combat climate change!
Saturday November 23rd: 11am – 2.30pm
St Michael & All Angels Church Lonsdale Rd, Summertown OX2 7ES
More details here …
LCON Tree Planting event in Sunnymead
After last year’s successful planting of 500 trees in Cutteslowe, Cutteslowe Park) there's more planting to be done!
Everyone is welcome, tea and cake will be provided, and children are encouraged to help!
Meet at the playground opposite Cutteslowe Community Centre (31 Wren Road, OX2 7SX)
Sat 30th November from 10am to 1pm (approx).
WWF Earth Hour Saturday 30th March 8.30pm
Switch off for our world!. In the UK every year millions take part in Earth Hour to help protect our planet. To learn more, go to:
https://www.earthhour.org/what-is-earth-hour
Arrivals for our swift boxes!
Predicted date for the swift arrival from Africa to Summertown is May 8th - 20th; they are very precise in their behaviour!
As soon as you spot any nosey swifts investigating our boxes way above the bike racks, please email OxfordSwiftCity@rspb.org.uk citing ST MICHAEL'S SWIFTWATCH Many thanks!
One member of our congregation, Suzanne Dalton, helped to paint the swift boxes erected on this superb new sculpture in the University Park.
Our new Insect house
Is now becoming a cosy home for all bugs and later, hopefully the frogs and newts will enjoy the cool damp spaces between the stones.
Crocuses in Bloom
Many hands planted these crocuses now in bloom given by Rotary Spires in aid of their End Polio Now campaign.
March Spring Clean
Congratulaions to Oxclean for attracting 84 groups to register for litter collection in Oxford this year!
St Michael's folk joined people in Waterways, Alexandra Park and around the shops.
More of us (pictured) also collected from the top of the Banbury Rd, north of the Banbury Rd roundabout
and from the walkway behind Cherwell School.
We raised £405.85 for Toilet Twinning.
Six of our new toilets in church are now twinned with toilets in other parts of the world.
The Toilet twinning organisation fundraises with Tearfund to provide water and sanitation solutions for (and with) people living in poverty; including those in refugee camps.
Are you a Wild Christian?
Join the Wild Christian community to explore the connections between faith, nature and big environmental issues like climate change.
Each month, we'll send you something to think about and a practical action that you can take in your own home to help nature along. We can all then share our efforts on social media to get a wider conversation going.
Our Swift response
In response to the RSPB "giving nature a home" initiative and the local project "Introducing swifts to Oxford", we have the go ahead to apply for swift boxes. They will be attached to the North East wall of the church (just above the new bike rack area).
Swifts love a long tunnel-like approach to the nest; they are communal birds and are happy to nest alongside other swift families. They are also very good housekeepers - there is no mess below the nests and no need to clean out the nests after use.
Did you know … Swifts can do everything on the wing? They can eat, drink, sleep and even mate in the air. They only land to visit their nest sites.
Watch this space for more swift news … we hope to see swifts nesting in our church grounds next year.
See for more information and to become a swift fan.
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