Generous folk in Thackley!

• The Ladies Wednesday Group summer fair raised £455 - a wonderful result.
• Water Aid collection: Boys Brigade, Rainbows, Brownies, Guides and church members all took part in saving money in jam jars for Water Aid as a Lent Project. We have now sent Wateraid a cheque for £477. Thank to you all who contributed.
• Christian Aid: With restricted manpower we managed to collect from 12 roads in the Idle/Thackley area, apparently the only one of the 7 churches in the locality to do so. Around 12% of the homes felt unable to contribute, often because they support the collection at their local church or at Morrisons, by way of the Internet or by gift aided deductions from salary. However, we had a very good response for the average gift in each returned envelope was £2.71 Fact! In all we collected £509.66 which will be increased to £559.64 when Christian Aid recover the tax on gift aided donations. Idle and Thackley folk must be very generous! We add to this total £109.60 donated at our Christian Aid services, so the final result is most creditable. Thank you, Thank you.
• Sponsored walk: We’re planning a sponsored walk on 15 September 2007. Please support us by sponsoring a walker you know. Alternatively, why not join us?