by Pete Wildman | Mar 28, 2026 | Circuit News
Wirral FUSS held its Volunteer Celebration Lunch on 23rd March at Moreton Methodist Church. It was attended not only by 38 of our amazing volunteers, but also the Mayor & Mayoress of Wirral.
The event was to thank volunteers for their continuing faithful service in sorting & giving away FREE school uniforms. Last year they served 5890 families with 29553 items of uniforms and saved nearly 10 tonnes of perfectly good clothing going to landfill. Without their amazing e fort & loyalty this would not have been possible.
Wirral Fuss has been running since 2012, having started in St Luke’s in Hoylake by Sheila Fowler, we now have ten Wirral hubs and ecumenically, two in Anglican churches, plus the shop hub in Birkenhead town Centre. Petra Davies
by Pete Wildman | Feb 18, 2026 | Circuit News
The members of our Craft group here at Trinity Ellesmere Port joined along with two hundred or more other people to celebrate Jodrell Bank’s 80th Anniversary they looked into the sky and stars took up their needles and stitched a tribute in an amazing artwork of history, storytelling, of childhood visits that shaped their lives, reflections that captured their curiosity and cosmic imaginations. Their shared creativity produced this tributed putting it into the vastness of space.
Their stitching and stories are now on display in ten panels at Jodrell Bank until March.
by Pete Wildman | Feb 18, 2026 | Circuit News
The younger members of our company have been getting involved in “Spreading a little Sunshine” through the gift of cards and book marks to some of our church members and a visiting preacher. This is all part of their badge work and helps them to remember others in our church and circuit.
by Pete Wildman | Nov 25, 2025 | Circuit News
Working in partnership with the Circuit Children and Youth team we continue to welcome families for a fun afternoon during each half term break.
This time we held a fabulous Family Activity afternoon on Thursday 30th October. It was a joy to welcome approx. 60 visitors (we welcomed 80+ last time so we did have to limit numbers, we are always oversubscribed). We all enjoyed celebrating Our Superheroes!
Firstly, children decorated a gift bag, ready to take various goodies home in. They visited the photo booth and dressed up as a superhero to have their photo taken. Then completed a Lego Challenge to build our Lego City, whilst younger ones built in Duplo. After playing Superhero Bingo, they coloured sheets describing Jesus as our hero and enjoyed firework painting. After games including the impossibly heavy box, we sat and considered how Jesus is better than any of these heroes. He is always with us and, compared with Hulk Superman or Spiderman, He is more powerful than them all! Families enjoyed plenty of tea time treats and told us it was the best ‘non-Halloween’ party they have ever attended before collecting gift bags with a bookmark, stickers, some sweets and invitations to Lego Church 9th November and our All-Age Nativity 14th December.
We have a clear gospel to share – Jesus is the best Superhero! I do want to thank the Circuit Children and Youth team for their inspiration and support which made this event possible
At Greasby our mission is to build relationships with families who attend weekly Church Mice, monthly Lego Church, the Summer Holiday Club and our special events eg Easter on The Car Park and the annual Celebrate Greasby Day, as well as sharing the gospel in assemblies on alternate weeks at all three local schools in Greasby. It is a joy that the schools continue to engage in all 7 Hope Journeys (one for each year group). HJ Remembering took place on 6th November. The Year 6 children have attended a HJ every year throughout their school life and shared lots of their memories from each one. What a joy that every (non catholic) child in Greasby attends Greasby Methodist for a Hope Journey once a year. Working ecumenically each school attends our churches for Christmas and Easter worship. We are now planning our annual Breakfast with Santa and hope to welcome more families into All Age Worship. Make every contact count! Our prayer is that more families commit to a life of following Jesus as a personal Lord and Saviour. – Sue Elliott, Steward /Schools, Children and Families co-ordinator
by Pete Wildman | Nov 25, 2025 | Circuit News
Our hub friends, church congregation and people from the community met to enjoy a special lunch to mark the 80th anniversary of Victory in Europe (VE) Day. This began with a speech from, Iain Henderson acting the part of Winston Churchill and was followed by Beryl Hewson’s account of childhood wartime experiences in the Claremount vicinity. After the meal we enjoyed singing some of the well-known songs of the era.A good time was had by all.
In October we shared a hot lunch of stew and apple pie to celebrate Harvest. Afterwards we were entertained by the Wallasey U3A, ukulele band, the UkeeBlinders.
Please come and join us for our next special Hub meal in the New Year. – Janet Herd
by Pete Wildman | Nov 25, 2025 | Circuit News
Church Services during Advent include for a “Service of light” on the 30th November to be led by Rev. Barbara Banton remembering those no longer with us. There will be two Carol Services on Sunday, 21st December. The morning Service will be traditional and led by Peter Colyer and the evening will be an “All age Service” which will be conducted by Emma Sofayo. A reverse Advent Calendar Poster will be in our Welcome Area in support of the Foodbank.
The Friendship Group continues to meet every fortnight on a Tuesday afternoon with different speakers or activities as part of its programme. The following was a highlight during the current year:-
VE DAY CELEBRATION AT BROMBOROUGH
On 13th May we celebrated VE Day by decorating the outside garden and our meeting room. We had some memorabilia/medals etc. on display and members who were very young at the time told us of their memories and stories of family members who had been away from home.Rita Evans played the music and all joined in the songs of the time and afternoon tea was much enjoyed. We normally have a Quiz or local speakers come and talk to us, which we find very interesting. – Barbara and Norman Green
1st Bromborough Boys Brigade
Boys’ Brigade continues to meet each Friday and we held our first Enrolment Service in Church since pre-Covid times when membership cards were issued for the current BB Session and promotion Certificates for boys moving up to the next Sections (one from the Junior to the Company and two from the Anchor to the Junior Section). We have been working for and have just achieved the RHS level 3 Certificate for the work carried out by boys and staff in our garden. It was a fruitful year with a full plum tree harvest and crops of carrots, strawberries, leeks, chives, tomatoes and several potted flowers.
The Company has continued with our normal activities over the past year but with the closure of the Wirral & West Cheshire Battalion we are now officially a member of the Liverpool & District Battalion as from 1st September 2023. We look forward to working with other Companies across the Liverpool area. We were invited, as Officers, to attend the District presentation of the last Queen’s Badge Awards at All Saints Church, Childwall. The next group of young people in the District will now be working for the Kings Badge having had the award officially approved.
Our Senior boy, Tom Warren, gained the President’s Badge which is the second highest award in Boys’ Brigade but has recently left the Company to study at Sheffield University so we wish him well in his academic career and hope to see him back with us from time to time. Tom made “Chocolate Bouquets” as a badge activity which were presented to various people at our awards evening and later to our District Officials.
Our programme continued with trips over the past year to St. Helens World of Glass Museum, the two Cathedral’s in Liverpool and the National Waterways Museum at Ellesmere Port. Each of these became part of a Badge Activity or Project.
As we enter the time of Advent we praise the birth of Jesus and our Company has welcomed two new members, one whose father was a BB member in Brunei and gained his Queen’s whilst a member.
Boys’ Brigade is now 141 years and celebrates Founder’s Day on the 4th October. In the last year Ryan, one of our Anchor Boys, gained a “140 Badge” by designing a 140 from various materials
“Old Toy-New Adventure” was an activity to collect near new plastic toys for a Charity to send them on to countries where children have no toys to play with.
We are planning similar activities and trips for the coming months ahead. – Ken Chalton (Captain)
