News & Announcements

  Dear Friends,   Please find attached your November edition of our United Benefice magazine, which is absolutely bursting with church and community news from across our local area.   The reports in this month’s magazine show that October has been a month with much to celebrate across the Benefice, including the crowning of Mellor’s new Rose Queen, our Harvest Festivals and our United Benefice Confirmation Service. Thank you to everyone who has contributed to the wide variety of articles in November’s magazine, but especially to the younger members who have written items, including both Mellor and Samlesbury’s Rose Queens, several of this year’s Confirmation candidates and one of our local Brownies!   There is much to look forward to in November and December and so many dates to put in your diaries. Please see both the special posters section and the magazine itself for further details of all the following services and events:   Our United Benefice Commemoration...

October 2022 Magazine In this edition, it’s lovely to have the return of articles from our three United Benefice schools as the new academic year begins. We also welcome new contributors with a report of September’s Mellor Village Show and Rebecca Lamond kindly describing an event held at The Village Hall to remember our late Queen Elizabeth II.    There is so much happening in the next three months. Please use our diary dates page to fill in your own diaries and please support events across the three parishes of our benefice. Within the posters sections are details of: The Harvest Supper at St Leonard’s Balderstone, FOSMS events, a concert at Mellor Brook Community Centre, a first aid course for 11 – 16 year olds at Mellor Village Hall, a Festive Afternoon Tea at Samlesbury Memorial Hall and a Christmas Fayre at Mellor Village Hall.   Our advertisements include new lunchtime yoga classes and new yoga classes for Mums and babies at Hot Pod Yoga Ribble Valley, based at Hun...

Please note a change of time at St Mary's Church, Mellor now 9am - 12pm and 4pm -5pm "Dear Friends,  Following the sad news of the death of Queen Elizabeth II this evening, our churchwardens have kindly made arrangements for our churches to be open for private prayer on Friday, 9th September.    For anyone who wishes to attend church for private prayer, our three United Benefice churches will be open at the following times.  St Leonard's, Balderstone, from 10:00am – 4:00pm  St Mary’s, Mellor, from 9:00am – 10:00am and again from 5:00pm – 6:00pm  St Leonard the Less, Samlesbury, from 10:30am – 12:00pm  Kind regards,  Michael Oddie  Church Administrator  United Benefice of Balderstone, Mellor & Samlesbury "

  Dear Friends,       Please find attached the September edition of your United Benefice magazine, along with our events posters and magazine adverts.       As September begins, there is so much to look forward to across our United Benefice with event posters containing details of Mellor Village Show, CPR Training at Mellor Village Hall, a Charity Event at Mellor Brook Community Centre, the next Samlesbury Lunch Club, Balderstone’s Safari Supper, a Samlesbury Fun & Games Evening and Balderstone’s Harvest Supper! The full page of dates within the magazine contains even more dates for your diary, including Mellor’s Rose Queen Service and a Macmillan Coffee Morning.      Thank you, as always, to all those who have contributed to our busy magazine. This month, this includes updates from Mellor Village Hall, Balderstone Parish Council and Mellor Parish Council, while we welcome Richard’s Horton’s first contribution, as he descri...

Dear Friends,        We are very pleased to share with you the August edition of our United Benefice magazine, along with our events posters section and magazine adverts.        Thank you to everyone who has written a contribution for this edition, especially those who have written for the first time, contributing articles about special services and social events. Anyone is welcome to write each month with the deadline for September’s magazine being 28 th  August, please.        This month, our events posters section contains three new posters with information about Mellor Village Show, an upcoming Charity Event at Mellor Brook Community Centre and dates of future Balderstone social events.        Two of our advertisers have submitted updated adverts both of which contain offers for our readers. The Bay Horse offer 10% off to all our readers, while Hot Pod Yoga at Huntleys offer new customers a free cla...

  Dear Friends,     We are very pleased to share with you the July edition of our United Benefice magazine, along with our events posters section and magazine adverts.     Thank you to everyone who has written a contribution for this edition, with special thanks to one of the younger members of our United Benefice, Samlesbury’s new Rose Queen, Rebekah, for writing to introduce herself in her new role.      We continue to receive a wide variety of articles about both church and local community events and groups. If you attend any events or groups in July, please do consider writing a report to share with everyone. Please can all item for August’s edition be received by the slightly earlier deadline of  Wednesday, 27 th  July . Thank you.     Our events posters section has been updated and includes a new poster from Debbie Summersgill with details of Mellor’s Summer Barbecue on Friday 15 th  July. As always, everyone is welc...