A quarterly news page. We do not produce many press releases. What you will find here are short pieces on what the Trust has been doing — library discoveries, hospitality reports, news from the grants window, occasional obituaries — collected from the four Ember letters of the year.
While cataloguing a 1937 box donated by the family of Eric Mascall, our archivist Rev. Dr. Frances Holloway found a fold of correspondence between Dix and the then-Bishop of Birmingham — revising, gently, what was known of Dix's view of the 1928 Prayer Book.
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An annual review, with profiles of three guests — a Syrian midwife from Aleppo, a retired Worcestershire headteacher, a nineteen-year-old on a gap year — and what they did with their five quiet days at Sarum.
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Where the money went, in plain pounds and place names. The 2024 round of Cloister & Common Bread saw a small rise in foodbank applications and a sharper rise in women's refuge requests.
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Tuesday evenings since 1989, and only once cancelled. We mark thirty-six years of public sung Compline this Lent.
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The autumn intake closes on 30 June. We are particularly seeking men over 50 in West Wiltshire and Welsh-speakers in the rural Hereford borders.
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The Trust's bursar from 1953 to 1981, who first kept the discretionary cheque book from which the Cloister & Common Bread fund eventually grew, died in his ninety-ninth year. Requiescat in pace.
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Year three of a five-year partnership with the University of Birmingham. 2,440 manuscript pages of community correspondence and liturgical drafts are now online and freely searchable.
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Forty four-night stays were paid in full from the Pershore Hospitality Fellowship for refugees in their first year of resettlement in the south of England. We report briefly, with permission, on three of the guests.
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Eleven grants totalling £17,640 made in the July window. Recipients include a women's refuge in Reading, a community fridge in Pershore, and a homelessness charity in High Wycombe.
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