A chance to join this free Jazz Christmas Carols event online. Every blessing, Andy Rickell

Here is a heads-up for next year’s Methodist Church’s Lent campaign, “Unbounded Love”, and the resources that will be available. Every blessing, Andy Rickell

https://www.methodist.org.uk/unboundedlove/?utm_source=Methodist+Church+House&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=14247711_Digital+resources+-+4+December+2023&dm_i=BVI%2C8HDLR%2CC1O8E%2CZ1VZD%2C1&fbclid=IwAR07JdVY7KigwyA9J3DCUHntCzW9zsnWcZGZVZi_-bs25A2ns2zABrDDF_E_aem_AWy99IlE_epNz5eIGyQEhm6gYrznajXXlA2zZA_opZE1_QoE_ccpPNw6oQb5596-kgc&fs=e&s=cl

CIRENCESTER ASHCROFT WORK CLUB

WEEKLY UPDATE - UPDATED AT 5TH DECEMBER 2023 (with updated next 5 weeks’ sessions)

(Written as usual from home in Stratton, Cirencester)

The work club will continue to operate on most

Mondays - 9.00 to 11.00 and Tuesdays – 12.00 to 2.00

(but not on Bank Holidays).

We are now usually open for confidential one-to-one face-to-face support at these times. We also provide one-to-one phone and online support at these times too.

We also work in partnership with Cirencester Jobcentre to support referred jobseekers who would like some extra assistance.

You can contact me at the usual work club times by :-

- Face-to-face;

- Email : workclub@ashcroftchurch.org.uk;

- Phone or text : 07951439302;

- Sending a message through the Cirencester Ashcroft Work Club Facebook page.

We can then have a chat face-to-face, by phone, by message, or by video link if we can set one up, and I will do my best to help you.

You can also contact me at other times and we will then agree an appointment time to have a proper conversation.

Specific opening times over the next few weeks are below. Later opening times for the period up to the middle of APRIL 2024 are in the Events section (which is itself sometimes in the About section) of the Cirencester Ashcroft Work Club and Cirencester Ashcroft Church and Centre Facebook pages. To access those later times, you will now need to be signed in to Facebook yourself, as Facebook recently “upgraded” so that Events data cannot be accessed by internet search alone (at least that seems to be what’s happened). Also Facebook only lets us select a maximum of about 50 future dates for an event at the time it is first published, hence why it appears to stop at a random date.

Monday 11th December 9.00 - 11.00 (FACE TO FACE, PHONE & ONLINE)
Tuesday 12th December 12.00 - 2.00 (FACE TO FACE, PHONE & ONLINE)

Monday 18th December 9.00 - 11.00 (FACE TO FACE, PHONE & ONLINE)
Tuesday 19th December 12.00 - 2.00 (FACE TO FACE, PHONE & ONLINE)

Monday 25th December 9.00 - 11.00 (CLOSED - BANK HOLIDAY)
Tuesday 26th December 12.00 - 2.00 (CLOSED - BANK HOLIDAY)

Monday 1st January 9.00 - 11.00 (CLOSED - BANK HOLIDAY)
Tuesday 2nd January 12.00 - 2.00 (FACE TO FACE, PHONE & ONLINE)

Monday 8th January 9.00 - 11.00 (FACE TO FACE, PHONE & ONLINE)
Tuesday 9th January 12.00 - 2.00 (FACE TO FACE, PHONE & ONLINE)

(For those who are interested, I normally highlight the opening times for the next 4 weeks. However sometimes I increase this when they include a break, in part to make sure that the last week I show is one when we are open. This is to emphasise that any closure is only temporary. The work club is a key part of Ashcroft’s mission and outreach project until at least June 2026. After that date I intend to continue to run the work club indefinitely, whether or not part of a larger project.)

Andy Rickell, Cirencester Ashcroft Work Club Manager