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Youth Group Fundraiser for DTI Summer Camp 2024

Young people from Aftershock and the Community Church will be cycling 130 miles from Saffron Walden to Stafford show ground on turbo trainers in 12 hours to raise funds for a minibus to take them to the Dreaming the Impossible Summer Conference. More ...

New Team Vicar for Debden and Wimbish with Thunderley

We are delighted that The Rev'd Lynda Sebbage has been appointed as Team Vicar with the Saffron Walden team, with special responsibility for the parishes of Debden and Wimbish with Thunderley (subject to the usual statutory checks). More ...

Parish News

Latest copy of our Parish News. This edition will also be available in print at the back of the church and in the tourist office. More ...

Video of 'Choir Opportunities at St Mary's Saffron Walden'

Take a look at this lovely video about choir opportunities at St Mary's. More ...

New Facebook Page for St Mary's

We now have a new Facebook page for St Mary's Church, SW. Do visit us at www.facebook.com/stmaryschurchsaffronwalden and like. There is also a link to this at the bottom of each page of St Mary's website. Hannah Razzell is kindly managing this page. More ...

Jonathan Scott Organ Trumpet Fanfare

In case you missed last Saturday's excellent Organ Recital by Jonathan Scott, here is a chance to listen to his solo organ arrangement of Fanfare pour précéder "La Péri" by Paul Dukas on the organ of St Mary's Church, Saffron Walden on 1st June 2024... More ...

Eco News June 2024 - Sort this Ruddy Weather Out!

“If anyone can sort this ruddy weather out, they’d definitely get my vote!’ I woke to hear these closing words on Farming Today two days after the General Election was called. Spoken by a farmer with passion and exasperation... More ...

SMMA Bursary

St Mary’s Music Association offers up to £250 to support the musical training and education of a young musician in St. Mary’s parish in full time education. Applications must be received by 15th July 2024 and the bursary runs from September to August. More ...

Eco News May 2024 - Opportunity and Hope denied

We have all seen, either first hand while on holiday, or in the media, the appalling tonnage of plastic waste building up in our oceans and in countries where it has been shamelessly dumped. In 2019, the WWF found that each of us could be ingesting the .. More ...

St Mary's Saffron Walden Annual Church Meetings 5th May 2024

This year’s Annual Meetings will be held in St Mary's Church Saffron Walden on Sunday 5th May at 12.00 noon. More ...

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