The Repository
Our Repository shop is open after each Mass at the weekend. We stock books, cards, crucifixes, statues, rosary beads and other items.
At Christmas we have beautiful crib sets and Holy Family figurines as well as Christmas Cards and Advent Calendars, church Art Calendars and Catholic Diaries.
If you are looking for a specific item, we are happy to order for you but would need at least 28 days’ notice and may need to charge for postage and packing for single items. If you want to make a purchase and the shop is open but unmanned please place the money in the wallbox marked Repository and Publications by the church exit door.
If you would like to help us to run the shop and could spare a few minutes to do this after your regular Sunday Mass please contact Pat Bedford on 01733 312674
Fairtrade
As a parish, we have been holding a Fair Trade Stall at the back of the church each month for the past 8 years. Our aim is not to make a profit , but to improve people’s understanding of the conditions under which many of our most widely used commodities are produced in the poorer countries of our world. We stock tea, coffee, sugar, honey, jam and marmalade as well as breakfast muesli, biscuits, chocolate, dried fruit and snacks.
Our supplier is Traidcraft – a company founded in Durham in the 1960’s as a Christian response to world poverty. They provide their suppliers with training and growing expertise, marketing and product management information and also establish a support mechanism to help growers in times of difficulty. The Premium paid to the suppliers is a guaranteed price for their product and helps them over time to build school classrooms, clinics, wells and water supply facilities and many other community related requirements.
Each month we encourage our parish community to support Fair Trade as a Christian act of solidarity. We are dependant on people from far off lands to supply our needs and should be concerned if their basic human rights are not granted to them – fairness is something we all understand and fairness in trading is vital to these communities.
We do not presently stock craft items, household supplies (toilet paper, tissues etc) or clothing, as we have very limited storage space, but these things can be ordered for you from the catalogue if you wish. Please contact Pat Bedford or Sue Books for details.
If you would like to help us to run the shop and could spare a few minutes to do this after your regular Sunday Mass please contact Pat Bedford on 01733 312674