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The Buzz Club

Buzz Club is for children who live in Corston and for their friends.

We are never short of adult help - Mums, Grandmothers and friends who enjoy working with children come to help.  Many of our activities foster genuine community spirit by bringing people of all generations together. 

Our activities include crafts, sports, cooking gardening entertaining and visiting senior residents in the village, involvement in the village nativity play, and fund raising for chosen charities- and many other unique activities and visits.

Buzz club is sponsored by our village Church. 

Some events are Church-based including children taking part in family services and others are not.  The aim is to provide activities that you want to do and to encourage them always to share and care about others.

A programme of events is published 3 times a year, at the beginning of each school term.  Posters are displayed by the postbox near the Village Post Office and Church porch and every family in Corston receives a programme at home.

For further information please contact

Liz on telephone number 01225 873955 or any of the Buzz Club Mums.

The Village Market

Corston Village market takes place on the first Saturday of February to July and November and December, from 10:30am-12noon.  Stalls include cakes, plants, books, puzzles and bric-a-brac.  You can enjoy a gossip with your friends over a cup of coffee and perhaps be tempted to a bacon buttie.

The market started in 1991 and to date has raised over £35,000 for All Saints Church and is always a popular and enjoyable event.

Soup and Pudding Lunches

These are held in Corston Village Hall on the second Wednesday of each month, except August.

The cost is £3 for soup, cheese and bread; and £1 for a choice of puddings. A cup of tea or coffee is 50p.

These lunches are available between 12 noon and 1.15pm. We have space for buggies, high chairs, wheel chairs and zimmer frames!

The next lunch is on Wednesday 17th April.

Further details from Jean Seymour. Tel: 01225 872746

Bell ringing at All Saints Corston

In 1754 there were three bells known as 'Ye Great, Ye Least and Ye Other'. In that year Ye Great and Ye Least were recast into one single bell by the Bilbies, the famous bell founders of Chew Stoke. Ye Other was sold in 1823 and it seems that Corston had only the one Bilbie bell until 1917. In that year Mr. F. L. Bartelt presented the set of eight bells in use today. A condition, honoured to this day, was that the bells be rung every year on September 23rd, the birthday of Fritz Bartelt in whose memory they were given.

We have eight bells the heaviest, called the Tenor, which weighs just over 9 cwt. We practice on the last Friday of the month 7.45pm - 9.00pm and we ring for service on the third Sunday of the month at 10.45am. The tower captains are Mrs Jane Jones and Ms Jenny Burton and tower correspondent Miss Sophie Didcott.

We welcome any visitors to our tower and anyone aspiring to learn please contact Jenny 01225 874265 or Jane 01225 873475.

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All Saints link with St. Teresa's

Over the years the church has had a close link with St. Teresa's, from Lent groups to carol singing and social events.

On the last Friday of the month (except December, when it is the previous week), the Churches Together Outreach for Older Folk take a service in the lounge at 2pm. There are 6-7 people in the team, each one having an active role.  There is a short appropriate talk and the residents frequently join in by playing percussion instruments and singing their well known choruses.

Every third Wednesday, one of the clergy gives Communion to residents in their rooms

If anyone is interested in joining the team, please contact Julie Bracewell on 01225 874522.  Just being with, and talking to these dear people is an enriching experience.

Communion in St. Teresa's

Twice a month, communion is available for all those who wish to take it.

1st Wednesday in the month Ken Plant visits residents in their rooms

3rd Wednesday one of the clergy gives communion at 2pm in one of the meeting rooms.

What's happening under the floorboards?

We have heard of the odd wine glass being broken by diva sopranos, but how about standing on resonating chambers to enhance the sound of a church choir. More evidence of this device was uncovered at All Saints Church during the removal of choir stalls from the chancel as part of a trial re-ordering project.

On each side of the chancel, below the choir stalls, two voids were discovered (as well as a good deal of dry rot) immediately under the floorboards where the choirs of days gone by would have stood whilst leading the singing in church. "I have come across this before", said the mildly surprised church architect. "In Victorian times, and under the right conditions, churches would go to great lengths to achieve the best aural effects for their choirs, so these are very likely resonating chambers". As part of the restoration work it has been decided that rather than seal off these voids permanently, a trap door will be installed in case later generations are curious.

The end result of this work will be the creation of a flexible area for small group worship and teaching in the chancel. Alongside this work re-ordering will take place in the north nave where some pews will be removed in order to create a 'welcome' and social area. This will be of great benefit to the young members of the Buzz Club.

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