Seated exercise coming soon to St Catherine’s Church Hall!
Get Berkshire Active have offered us 8 FREE sessions starting Friday 28th May at 11.30 am. All sessions will be led by a qualified trainer who will help you to get moving!
You don’t have to attend all the sessions but a booking form must be completed for Health and Safety reasons.
Why not come along, enjoy the class and then have a coffee or a snack in Café Siena afterwards?
Please contact us for your booking form.
This page is regularly updated. Please return regularly to read the latest situation.
The Coronavirus Pandemic has changed all our lives. As our level of restriction is continually under review, so our pattern of Sunday services and other midweek gatherings are affected again.
During these difficult times, we continue to explore how to be a different kind of church, and how to both keep in contact and provide practical help.
We encourage you to :-
Please refer to this page for Practical Help if you are ill or isolated.
Please refer to this page for Spiritual Help during this time.
Church Activities
At this time, most of our Church Activities are closed and will remain so while we are at Tier 2 or higher.
This includes, but is not limited to the following
At this time it is not known which activities will re-start at what time. Please check back on this web site or our Facebook page for further details.
Other Hall & Church Users
Some groups, such as St Catherine’s Pre-school, have a specification exemption from lockdown. They may continue to meet, in a strict Covid-secure environment.
We have contacted the people booking the Hall or Church to discuss the additional requirements that the latest government guidance puts upon them and the practicality of whether their groups may continue to meet.
At this time we do not know when any particular church centre users will restart their groups. Please check with them for further details.
Also note:
To reduce the chance of cross contamination, the centre is being operated in two halves – Church and Hall. Please use the north, car park entrance for the Church, and the south, road side entrance for the Hall.
Last updated 14th May 2021 15:00 pm.
Originally published 16th March 2020 9:00 am.
The St Catherine’s Branch of the Mothers Union are currently holding their programme of talks over Zoom. The next meeting is on Wednesday May 12th at 2.30 pm. We look forward to a talk on the topic of Modern Day Slavery – the topic of the recent Wave of Prayer.
The Zoom link is :-
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85771526877?pwd=SzhMdFo5UStpbVBoOEJEMml3OGEvZz09
The meeting ID is 857 7152 6877, passcode 924099.
This meeting is open to any of our congregation, not just MU members, and we do hope as many of you who are able will join us.
Our Annual Parochial Church Meeting will be held on Sunday 18th April via Zoom, starting at 11:30am.
To join the Zoom Meeting, click here : or use
Meeting ID: 829 8336 6880,
Passcode: 716120.
Please log in at least 5 minutes beforehand.
For those without Zoom, there are a small number of places available within Church. Normal social distancing guidelines will be followed.
There are two sets of documents to accompany the meeting.
Our 2020 Review booklet was delivered alongside our RG31 Parish Magazine. It can also be found here.
The Annual Report and Financial Statements booklet has been prepared in accordance with Church and Charity Commission rules. Copies are available in Church and can also be found here.
The St Catherine’s Branch of the Mothers Union are currently holding their programme of talks over Zoom. The next meeting is on Wednesday April 14th at 2.30 pm. We look forward to a talk by Katie Amos on the history of the Mansion House.
The Zoom link is
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82329006561?pwd=MTc3emdGME1OR0VBZGpxR0dIN3NHUT09
The meeting ID is 823 2900 6561, passcode533825.
This meeting is open to any of our congregation, not just MU members, and we do hope as many of you who are able will join us.
The St Catherine’s Branch of the Mothers Union are currently holding their programme of talks over Zoom. The next meeting is on Wednesday March 10th at 2.30 pm. We look forward to a talk by Gill on Christianity, crime and punishment.
The Zoom link is
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88392263080?pwd=QU1FL0RxNmxSODBYL0l5VlN6alZYdz09
The meeting ID is 883 9226 3080, passcode 235277.
This meeting is open to any of our congregation, not just MU members, and we do hope as many of you who are able will join us.
In the year that UK chairs COP26 and we start to respond to the challenge of reducing our carbon footprint, we have completed an extensive survey of our environmental credentials under the A Rocha UK Eco Church scheme, launched in 2016.
We finally submitted the survey earlier this week and we’re delighted to announce that we have qualified for a Bronze level award.
From now on, Rocha will offer us practical guidance on how to achieve Silver or even Gold award level to demonstrate how we are caring better for God’s earth. Look in the emailed Notices for weekly tips.
The St Catherine’s Branch of the Mothers Union have decided to try to have their programmed February meeting using Zoom. It is a talk by Graham Puddephatt on the Kennet and Avon Canal. The meeting has been scheduled for Wednesday 10th February at 2.30 pm (please note the change of time to avoid clashing with the Bible Course).
The Zoom link is
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83918678630?pwd=VUlaaWo5UmNyb1QxT1RDelNsTFl1dz09
This meeting is open to any of our congregation, not just MU members, and we do hope as many of you who are able will join us.
The Winter issue of RG31 – our Parish Magazine – is now available on-line here, or click on the image.
Due to the Coronavirus lockdown we are currently in, there will be limited distribution of the magazine.
If you have the ability to download and read PDF files, you can click here to do so.
