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Every year we welcome Riders and Striders to our church who are raising funds for our historic churches in Buckinghamshire.
This year Rev. Phil Groves is planning to stride from Aston Sandford Church to Stone, taking in all the churches in the benefice. He intends to be at St Nicholas Cuddington for lunch and from there call in at Dinton Church before finishing at SJB for a cup of tea.
Phil would love anyone to join him on a part of the walk, even if it is just from the Methodist Church to SJB, or the whole thing. You can just join him for tea if you want. He will be praying in every church, especially for the new rector.
More details to follow.

For More information, please email: Vicar@stonedintonhartwell.com

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Role description:  Christian Aid Coordinator for Stone, Bishopstone and Hartwell

Please contact Richard Smith for more information or if you would be interested in this role: Richard.Smith@stonedintonhartwell.com

We are seeking someone to be a link person for Christian Aid for Stone, Bishopstone and Hartwell.  Sue Spinks, who has held this responsibility for many years, has recently retired.

Christian Aid is a global charity whose aim is to eliminate poverty, particularly where this has come about through natural disaster. 

There are many ways in which churches can work with, and support Christian Aid, but this is most often done by raising funds and raising awareness of the work of the charity, particularly during Christian Aid week (10-16 May 2026), and around Harvest and Christmas.

The traditional fundraising method of door-to-door collections is becoming less popular and less effective as fewer people carry cash these days, although envelopes now carry QR codes for those who wish to donate on-line. 

Christian Aid has many resources including posters, leaflets, video presentations, special orders of service and other fundraising materials which can be ordered or downloaded free of charge.  It is also possible to book speakers to give live presentations at local events.

The main responsibilities of our local Christian Aid coordinator will be to work with the SJB committee by:

  • Contributing ideas for local events to raise funds for Christian Aid and helping to coordinate these events.
  • Obtaining promotional materials from Christian Aid (usually available to order from late February)
  • Keeping in touch with other local Christian Aid coordinators.

To find out more, you are welcome to contact David Blackmore, who is a very experienced Christian Aid coordinator based in Weston Turville (davidbblackmore@gmail.com)

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Here at St John the Baptist, Stone,
We have always welcomed dog walkers to enjoy our beautiful churchyard.

However, Recently there have been several incidents where our grounds have been damaged by dogs that have been left to freely roam and a lot of dog mess has been left behind which our gardening volunteers have had to deal with.

In light of this, we have had to make the decision to designate our churchyard as a dog on leads only area. We did not want to make this decision as we would love to keep the churchyard as a safe place for dogs to play, but the actions of a few have caused this to be necessary. We hope to be able to reverse this decision if things improve.