The Rainbow Café at St Mary's Church

On the 2nd Thursday of each month.

The Rainbow Café at St Mary's Church opens its doors again on Thursday, the 10th of April, between 2:00pm and 4:30pm.

As usual, we will be offering delicious cakes and savouries.

We will have our fantastic kid's snack deal - 5 items and a drink for £1. Where else would you get such wonderful value?

There will be crafts, a story for the children and a warm welcome for everyone.  

This all helps us support 4 children in Uganda to go to school and supply breakfast for a group of Ugandan children at their Saturday Club. How special is that?

Come and join us.

Gill Gay and the Rainbow Café Team

Email: gilliangay99@yahoo.co.uk

Swale Foodbank Easter Collection - April

Swale Foodbank Easter Collection

Thank you to everyone who donated food and other needed items in March.

I will be collecting your foodbank donations at the bus stop opposite the church again on Wednesday, the 2nd of April, between 10:30am and 11:30am.

🥚 🌼 🐇 With Easter approaching, it would be lovely to deliver some children's Easter

                  goodies to the foodbank too.

Please bring your items in carrier bags.

We will then deliver them to the Swale Foodbank Warehouse, part of the Trussell Trust.

All donations are helpful, providing the food is long life and well within date.

Thank you

May God bless you ❤️

Gill Gay - Foodbank Co-ordinator

Email: gilliangay99@yahoo.co.uk

April 2025 Edition of The Gabriel - Upchurch Village Magazine

The Gabriel team has gained access to their printing and collating machines and are cautiously optimistic that normal production and door-to-door deliveries can resume with effect from the May issue.

Editor Dave Candy would like this month's parish magazine to reach the residents, and we are pleased to help by making it available to read online.

Could you volunteer to help produce The Gabriel?

Please read the April edition online to find out how you can help the team.

Visit the link to read the magazine in PDF format: www.upchurchmatters.co.uk/Gabriel-April-2025.pdf

Email: upchurchgabriel@gmail.com

Upchurch Matters

Window Smashed - Upchurch

Hartlip, Newington & Upchurch Ward

Crime Number: 46/48888/25

On Saturday, the 22nd of March, around 14:55, somebody smashed the window of a residential property in Oak Lane, Upchurch.

If you have any information that could help investigators, please contact Kent Police on telephone number 101 and quote the relevant crime number above.

For more information on crime prevention visit: www.kent.police.uk

Kent Community Messaging

Wilf Busbridge 1938 - 2025

Wilf Busbridge

Wilf sadly passed away on Monday the 10th of March, aged 86. He will be sadly missed by his loving wife Marian, son Simon, daughter Kerry, and all his family and friends.

Born in Lower Halstow in 1938, Wilf moved to Drakes Close in Upchurch as a young child, where his sister still lives today.

Wilf's funeral will take place at 1:00pm on Wednesday the 23rd of April, at Garden of England Crematorium, Sheppey Way, Sittingbourne, Kent, ME9 8GZ.

Please visit Wilf's obituary: www.funeralguide.co.uk/obituaries/132429

Thank you

Kerry Geer

Vehicle Stolen - Upchurch

Hartlip, Newington & Upchurch Ward

Crime Number: 46/48173/25

Between 8:00pm on Sunday the 16th of March and 7:52am on Monday the 17th of March, somebody stole a black Vauxhall Insignia, YO17***, from a driveway in Halstow Lane, Upchurch.

If you have any information that could help investigators, please contact Kent Police on telephone number 101 and quote the relevant crime number above.

For more information on crime prevention visit: www.kent.police.uk

Kent Community Messaging