Volunteer Newsletter January 2017
Dear All
I wish to take this opportunity to wish you all a very Happy New Year and to thank you sincerely for all your efforts last year. You were amazing…giving our visitors a wonderful welcome despite all the building work around you in the first half of the year. I know that your contributions are greatly appreciated by our visitors, our clergy and our staff and I look forward to a good year ahead too.
There are a couple of events that I would like to invite you along to…there will be others but these are the first two;
1 Induction/Refresher Pastoral Training.
This will be run for a third time on Wednesday 8th February from 10am-12.15am and it is hoped we will attract the rest of our existing volunteers and new volunteers too. There will be a selection of the Cathedral Staff coming to speak to you including; Canon Tony Macpherson, Canon Leah Vasey-Saunders, Rev Tim Stevens, Tracey Yates, Roz Cochrane, Karn Dyson and me. Free Tea/Coffee and Biscuits will be provided. Please sign the list on the Volunteer Notice Board to indicate that you will attend or reply to me via e-mail.
2 Friends’ Free Coffee & Scones.Wakefield Cathedral Friends …for fun, friendship and fundraising
Existing Life Members, New Members and Interested Others, Family and Friends are all invited to come to meet the new Friends’ of Wakefield Cathedral Committee where you will be invited to join The Friends.
When?Wednesday 25th January 11.15am (straight after the morning service).
Where? Wakefield Cathedral Nave near the font.
Why? To Meet the Committee, to find out more about our newly imagined Friends…complete with opportunities for discounts in participating local stores and on future Friends’ Outings, Day Visits, Theatre Visits…and to have the chance to join The Friends’ of Wakefield Cathedral £15 per person for annual membership or £25 for a couple or Family living together for annual membership. You will also have a chance to bring your ideas along to let us know what is important to you from your Friends of Wakefield Cathedral.
We will also need to update our Self Declaration DBS forms and they will be with you soon.
Cathedral Shop Volunteers and Counters…watch this space for further details of other training coming soon.
As always…please let other volunteers know about this if they do not use e-mail
Many thanks.
Elizabeth Jenkins
Elizabeth Jenkins BSc(Hons) PGCE
Manager of Volunteers
Friends’ Officer
Cathedral Centre
8-10 Westmorland Street
Wakefield
WF1 1PJ
01924 373923 ext 211