CIRENCESTER ASHCROFT WORK & WIFI CLUB

WEEKLY UPDATE - UPDATED AT 23RD JUNE 2026 (with updated next 4 weeks’ sessions)

(Written unusually whilst away on leave)

**NEWSFLASH**

The work club is now the work & wifi club! This is to emphasise that we not only help people seeking work, but also people wanting to improve their access to the internet. At both Cirencester Ashcroft Church and Centre, Ashcroft Road, and at St Lawrence’s Church, Chesterton, Cirencester we now can offer free internet access during our sessions, which you can use with or without support from the club. We have tablets we can help you use, if you don’t have your own device.

The work & wifi club will continue to operate on most

Mondays - 9.00am to 11.00am at St Lawrence’s Church Centre
and
Tuesdays – 12.00pm to 2.00pm at Cirencester Ashcroft Church & Centre
(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 & wifi club times by :-
- Face-to-face;
- Email : workclub@ashcroftchurch.org.uk;
- Phone or text : 07951439302;
- Sending a message through the Cirencester Ashcroft Work & Wifi 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 end of SEPTEMBER 2026 are in the Events section (which is itself sometimes in the About section) of the Cirencester Ashcroft Work & Wifi 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 29th June 9.00 - 11.00 (CLOSED - VOLUNTEER ON LEAVE)
Tuesday 30th June 12.00 - 2.00 (CLOSED - VOLUNTEER ON LEAVE)

Monday 6th July 9.00 - 11.00 (AT ST LAWRENCE’S CENTRE)
Tuesday 7th July 12.00 - 2.00 (AT ASHCROFT CENTRE)

Monday 13th July 9.00 - 11.00 (AT ST LAWRENCE’S CENTRE)
Tuesday 14th July 12.00 - 2.00 (AT ASHCROFT CENTRE)

Monday 20th July 9.00 - 11.00 (AT ST LAWRENCE’S CENTRE)
Tuesday 21st July 12.00 - 2.00 (AT ASHCROFT CENTRE)

(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 & wifi club is a key part of Ashcroft’s mission and outreach project until at least June 2029. After that date I intend to continue to run the work & wifi club indefinitely, whether or not part of a larger project.)

Andy Rickell, Cirencester Ashcroft Work & Wifi Club Manager

I have visited Leckhampton Hill many times, so it’s great to see the area given a new positive designation that will help preserve its natural environment. Such new nature reserves across the county must be good, both for local wildlife but also for local people to be able to visit and enjoy. So we pray for all those people, local and visitors, who are able to enjoy the county’s nature reserves and the local wildlife that they support. We pray for all those involved in managing the county’s nature reserves and in seeking to extend the areas given this protection and resource. And we pray for us all to be visitors, volunteers and supporters of our county’s nature reserves. Every blessing, Andy Rickell, Circuit Social Justice Officer.

Thought for the day. Every blessing, Andy Rickell

I cannot think of many more challenging jobs than running a farm on the Shetland Isles, so it’s pretty impressive to see this being done by a young adult as a deliberate choice. Farming can be challenging wherever it happens in the UK, so if this is your goal, I am impressed. If you are interested in farming, then you might want to speak to the Royal Agricultural University, but we at Cirencester Ashcroft Work & Wifi Club would do our best to help too. Our contact details are on the Cirencester Ashcroft Work & Wifi Club Facebook page. Andy Rickell, Cirencester Ashcroft Work & Wifi Club Manager

Thought for the day. Every blessing, Andy Rickell