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Christmas at Trinity Church

• Festival of Lessons and Carols on Sunday 15 December 2024 at 6.30pm; a traditional service of lessons and carols, with some wonderful choral music.
• Crib Service Christmas Eve, Tuesday 24 December 2024 at 3.00pm: a ervice especially for tots and toddlers and their parents or carers, telling the Christmas story, dressing the church crib scene and singing children's carols. This service will last no longer than 30 minutes.
• Candlelight Service Christmas Eve, Tuesday 24 December 2024 at 11.15pm; a wonderful way to usher in Christmas Day. Lasting about an hour, this is a service of readings and carols, including beautiful music and a short sermon. Note that this is not a communion service.

All are welcome, there is no charge.

Sutton Foodbank seeks team leaders

Winter Shelter

Sutton Community Works ran shelters in 2019 & 2020 and an emergency accommodation in 2021 but since then it hasn't been required. We have seen a significant increase in rough sleeping and homelessness in the borough of Sutton and this is likely to increase. We are aiming to run a Winter Shelter in Jan-Mar 2025. This video explains the impact of running our previous shelter.

Volunteers are needed; they must attend training on either Saturday 11th January from 9.30–12 noon or Monday 13th January from 7.30–10 pm at River Church.

Sutton Community Works also seeks to recruit a full time coordinator for the Shelter on a fixed term contract. For full details see the Job Specification.

For enquiries email shelter@suttoncommunityworks.org.

The Charities Act 2022 introduces changes that may affect churches. A summary is available here.

Crisis Cafe, near Belmont railway station, is for people suffering with mental health. Information can be found in the leaflet, online at suttoncrisiscafe.org.uk, or phone 0800 012 9082.

Trinity church is hosting an International Coffee Club, in partnership with Refugee and Migrant Network Sutton (RMNS). We meet at Trinity Church on Monday mornings in term time between 10.00am and 12.00 to give people from around the world a chance to practise their English and meet new friends. There's free coffee and biscuits and a rota of volunteers, some with English as a first language and others from abroad who join in the conversations. It is purely social with no formal language teaching - that is available at RMNS on Wednesday mornings.

Fuel Hardship Fund
Sutton Community Works has set up an opportunity to give directly to a hardship fund using an online giving platform. Alternatively you can donate by BACS to Sutton Community Works Hardship Fund admin@suttoncommunityworks.org.

Sutton Foodbank and Community Foodshop are seeing significant increases in demand and use due to Cost of Living Increases and the welcoming of Ukrainian Refugees. Alongside this food donations have decreased. We are seeking donations with a remaining shelf-life of at least three months of the items listed below: Donations would need to be dropped off at the Big Yellow Storage facility any day 9–5pm.

We have seen the use of the community foodshop triple over the last year and a great way to get the food we want is via Bankuet — church members can donate financially online via Bankuet and we can arrange for the food items we need to be delivered direct to the shop; see flier and link https://www.bankuet.co.uk/communityfoodshopsutton. You can use Bankuet to donate financially to the Foodbank so we can buy food items we need.

Sutton Community Foodshop also seeks more volunteers to re-stock the shop on Wednesdays: