We need your support more than ever!

Each of our village parishes bears responsibility for maintaining their historic churches & collectively for funding the benefice team. Members contribute in a variety of ways including collections and regular giving to the church bank account.  Each village has fund-raising events on a regular basis. Tax payers are encouraged to make Gift Aid declarations allowing the church to recover tax on their donation, currently equivalent to one quarter of the donation.

COVID-19 Cancellations have placeD Parish Finances in a difficult position this year

Gift Aid forms, standing order forms and parish bank account details are available from your PCC treasurer, listed below:

The Evenlode Vale Youth Foundation is a charitable trust that supports the work of Youth in the Community of the Evenlode Vale.

The Foundation has engaged sports and youth workers to develop our core task of outreach to young people in the Evenlode Vale, an area which despite its affluence has problems of social division, poverty, isolation and juvenile crime.

Through sport, schools work and involvement in local events they are building relationships with young people across the geographical, social, economic and educational breadth of the North Cotswolds.

They are running after school sports clubs at Bledington Primary and Kingham Hill and discussion groups at Carterton College, Cotswolds Academy and Kitebrook. They are involved in local rugby and football clubs and in partnership with the local pub run a well-attended intergenerational village game of football on Broadwell Green called Sunday Kickabout.

Relationship is the basis for community and Youth Café, our open Youth Club, goes from strength to strength. Held in Oddington on a Friday evening it is a space where the young from different villages and schools can get together, relax, have fun and experience a sense of belonging.

At Youth Café and Explorers on a Sunday evening there are opportunities to discuss faith and issues that young people face today. This has included attending larger gatherings considering the effects of climate change and global issues of social justice. Our objective in this is to enable young people to explore how best to live fulfilled lives and make a positive contribution to the society in which they are growing up.

Our plans include sports camps, clubs and free lunches for children in need during the holidays and a week away at an outward-bound centre with bursaries for those who would not otherwise be able to go.

We hope to develop further links with the IBBA school for girls in South Sudan which gives a different perspective for our young growing up in rural middle England, and are hoping to extend our work into the rapidly growing housing estate on the old airbase at Upper Rissington.

By investing in the young the Foundation is helping the next generation to build for the future. There is so much more we can be do and since we receive no public funding for this pioneering work we continue to rely on the generosity of our supporters.

If you would like to help us in any way, please contact us.

Thanksgiving Sunday

Sunday, 3rd November 2019, was set aside for the church to focus on youth work in the Evenlode Vale Benefice. You can listen to Richard Rendall’s sermon and find out more about this by following on this link.

Evenlode Vale Benefice is glad to partner with Ibba Girls School in South Sudan. We regard the school as the eighth parish of our benefice.

South Sudan is still recovering from decades of war with Sudan and has much poverty.

Ibba Girls School aims to educate women in line with the UN Development Programme philosophy:

Women’s empowerment helps raise economic productivity and reduce infant mortality. It contributes to improved health and nutrition. It increases the chances of education for the next generation.