Refuse Collections October 2024

Black Bins: Wed 2nd, 16th and 30th

Recycling & Garden Waste Bins: Wed 9th and 23rd

Brown Food Bins: Every Wednesday.

Garden Waste: This service requires an annual payment from 1st April 2024 and a license will be issued for display on the green garden waste bin. Bins not displaying a valid license will not be collected. Please see the Central Beds website for full details.

Tidy Tips in Central Beds area: Open for Central Beds residents only; you may be asked for proof of residence when visiting.

Moggerhanger HARVEST Songs of Praise

Sunday 20th October at 6:00pm in St. John’s church..

Come along and join us to sing some favourite hymns, and enjoy refreshments afterwards.
Everyone very welcome to this and all services.

Coffee Mornings in St. John’s Church
First Tuesday each month at 10:30. All welcome to join us for hot drinks and goodies.

Knit & Natter

Anyone who likes Knitting (or Knattering) might like to join us as we meet in the church (St John’s) again on the 4th Thursday of the month 10:00 to 12:00.
Come with your own projects, with ideas for group projects or just keenness. We do have some wool in the church but best bring your own gear if you have it.
If you are completely new to knitting (surely not Knattering?) I am sure there will be people there who can start you off on your training wheels and give you a healthy push.
Interested but not available that day? Contact Ali Cross 640647

The amazing work of the Moggerhanger Knit n Knatter group. Decorating ready for harvest. If you love crafts join them every fourth Tuesday 10:00 at St John’s

Music Evening Wednesday 6th November 2024

Music Evenings on the first Wednesday of each month in the Village Hall. Free entry and great entertainment. There is a bar and a raffle.

Doors open 7:00pm Performances start 7:30pm.
This is usually an open mic event with a variety of musical and poetry items an of course lots of folk music. We are fortunate to have some very talented performers.

The Benefice Choir of Cople, Moggerhanger and Willington.

The Choir is open to anyone who likes to sing.  We don’t have auditions, but sing for the love of it.   After all, that’s the best way to do it.   We sing in unison, and harmony, so if you’re happy with the high notes, then Soprano or Tenor would be best for you.   Those who prefer the lower notes are probably Alto or Bass.

We sing in a variety of styles, modern, traditional, songs, hymns and anthems.   We take part in Special Occasions, and sang with Commonwealth Choirs across the World for Her Late Majesty Queen Elizabeth II’s Platinum Jubilee.   We also joined with other Church and Cathedral choirs last Christmas to sing a newly commissioned carol.   It was interesting to realise that this was a ‘World Premiѐre’.   You see, our music choice is very wide.   After all, performance in the Arts is key.

One Sunday a month is called “Choir Sunday”  when we sing at All Saints, Cople, St. John The Baptist, Moggerhanger and St. Lawrence’s, Willington in turn.

If you are interested in joining us, rehearsals are on Wednesday mornings from 9.30 until 10.15am, going to Cople and Willington churches in turn.   We appreciate that this is not a good time for those at work, but the Autumn Contact Shirley Jones on 01234  831  565 who can tell you more.

“SINCE SINGING IS SO GOOD A THING”  – – –

Our three villages of Cople, Moggerhanger and Willington,  have had various singing groups and choirs for many years, and the present Benefice Choir has been working together for the last 20 years, singing regularly once or twice a month in Church.   We are now looking for a new Conductor and Musical Director as I am retiring at Easter next year.  

You all helped me to celebrate a very significant Birthday in April, and I realised to my horror, that I had my first choir at the age of 10.   Well, it was War Time, and we children had to amuse ourselves!   So you see, I think it’s time I stepped down.

So, we are looking for a musical Volunteer, who will take on the very pleasurable task of keeping us singing.    Might that be YOU?  Or do you know someone who would enjoy the challenge?    Music, both playing and singing, is very therapeutic and we enjoy the comradeship which it brings, and it is important that this continues.  

If you know the right person, please ask them to get in touch with Revd. Lynne, our Vicar,  cmwvicar@gmail.com          There must be an ‘angel’ out there somewhere!    Thank you.   Shirley Jones

Friends of St John’s Church

The Friends of St John’s Church came into being in 2002. Its supporters are people who are not necessarily churchgoers, but who care about this beautiful little church in the centre of the village.
Funds are raised through membership and social activities.

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Moggerhanger Meeting Place

People in the village may remember that there was a small shop in the church vestry until recent years, the brain child of the vicar Rev. Nick McNeil, who put the idea to the village in 1999. (It was apparently the first shop in a church in the country, made ecclesiastical news and started a trend.) He also proposed that the church should become a village meeting place, and so the venture was born.
The shop – which opened in June 2000 – was well used for several years, with a team of some 20 volunteers running it in the vestry on 6 mornings a week, who also kept it stocked up and provided tea and coffee at the back of the church. Then online shopping became more popular and in May 2018 the shop itself was closed and just the area at the back of the church was kept going as the Moggerhanger Meeting Place.
The Meeting Place continued to organise several social groups and raise money for charity. However, with the retirement of some committee members and the Covid outbreak attendances dwindled or events could not be held. At its AGM on 7th December it was agreed sadly to disband the organisation. A total of nearly £4000.00 was shared between the PCC and the Parish Council in accordance with the constitution.