St Botolph’s Christmas Appeal 2025.
We raised over £600 to purchase gifts for local children this Christmas and along with generous donations of gifts too, managed to help the following
· 19 children in care between the ages of 7 and 16. We were given the gender and ages of the children which allowed us to put together age appropriate bundles of gifts for each individual child.
· A young child in a local primary school who's family are experiencing extreme financial difficulty.
· A number of other local primary school children between the ages of 4 and 11.
We also helped to support the visiting Santa at the community shop in Knottingley. Giving a big bag of gifts to be wrapped and handed out to children during their visit to see Santa.
We are incredibly proud of the success of the appeal and extremely thankful to all that donated, shared and supported the appeal along the way.
God Bless. Father Phil and Charlotte xx
Wreath making at St Botolph’s.
At the end of November, we ran our first wreath making workshop! Using moss as a base, and foliage that was all from the Vicarage garden, decorating with baubles, bows, bells, dried orange slices, and more, 22 people created their very own uniquely stunning wreaths! The accompanying home-made sausage rolls, mulled wine and mince pies went down a treat, too.
A wonderfully festive evening, right at the beginning of advent. Tickets were £20 each, and a total of £330 was raised for St Botolph’s. The funds raised will help to fund other events during 2026.
We have been inundated with requests for another wreath making evening in 2026, with the hope of maybe running two evenings as tickets sold out so quickly this time - keep an eye out for the date(s).
God bless,
Charlotte xx
Christmas Fayre
Our Christmas Fayre was a great success.
Thank you to everyone who supported us in any way. Everyone who ran stalls, donated items or money, baked items, made items, worked hard in the kitchen
serving soup, etc. It was great to see Santa and his naughty elf.
Thank you to the hand bell ringers, adding a Christmas feel with tunes and carols.
Thank you also to everyone who came to shop. We raised over £1000 for our funds.
Unfortunately we have suffered a spate of vandalism during December so we may have to spend some of this on additional security measures. This is such a shame as we like to welcome everyone to share our Church and Hall.
Christmas St Botolph’s
Thank you to everyone who came along to help decorate our church and make Christingle Oranges ready for our services over the Christmas period. The church looked beautiful and we made 100 Christingle Oranges. Thank you to Coop Funeralcare for sponsoring our oranges.
It was lovely to welcome so many families to church on Christmas Eve to our Christingle and Crib Service to hear the story of Jesus birth and receive oranges. It was a lovely way to begin our Christmas celebrations. Thank you to Jackie who made the cake that everyone took home; all agreed it was absolutely delicious.
Church was open at 9.00pm on Christmas Eve for the First Mass of Christmas and at 9.00am on Christmas Day for Mass. It was good to be able to welcome so many to our church. Thank you to the Tower Bell ringers for ringing on Christmas morning.
