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2025

The Tenpenny Villages Benefice of Alresford, Elmstead and Frating with Thorrington

As church families, our vision is:-

"To draw closer to God and to each other so that we may more ably bring his love to the world."

We want to make a difference in these communities for God.

St Andrew’s, Alresford

St Anne & St Laurence, Elmstead

St Mary Magdalen, Thorrington

Pauline Hart Associate Priest

A copy of the data privacy notice for each church can be found by clicking on the name of the church at the top of this page.

We are committed to safeguarding children, young people, victims/survivors of domestic abuse and vulnerable adults. 

The PCCs have adopted the Church of England’s policies and best practice on safeguarding which may be found on the Church of England’s website.

https://www.churchofengland.org/more/safeguarding

Details of Parish Safeguarding Representatives can be found on the noticeboards in each church. Our Parish Safeguarding Representatives can be contacted via safeguarding@tenpennyvillages.uk


Safe spaces-supporting survivors of church related abuse, email: safespaces@victimsupport.org.uk      Tel: 0300 303 1056


Andrew Fordyce MBE  Rector

Services at St. Andrew’s, Alresford (StA), St Anne & St Laurence, Elmstead (StAL) and St Mary Magdalen, Thorrington (StMM)


Recorded services from St Andrew’s and St Anne & St Laurence are available on our YouTube channel. For the latest version of our Noticesheet, please click here. Information on enquiries to our Benefice Office can be found on our Contact Us page. Further events and meetings can be found in our Calendar, please click here.   


























* - For Zoom link please see noticesheet


For a link to our facebook page, please see below. If you have any specific prayer

requests please send them to prayer@tenpennyvillages.uk (These will be kept

confidential)                 

Rev Andrew Fordyce and Rev Pauline Hart

Day

Date

Time

Church

Service

Sunday

2nd Mar

8.00 am

StA

Holy Communion (Andrew Fordyce)



10.00 am

StAL

Family Communion (Phil Ritchie)



11.00 am

StA

All Age Worship (Pauline Hart)



4.30 pm

StMM

Evensong (Valerie Harper/Pauline Hart)

Monday

3rd Mar

9.00 am


Morning Prayer on Zoom *



10.30 am

StA

Friendship Circle



12.30 pm

StMM

Funeral of Betty Greenfield



2.30 pm

StA

Memories Group

Tuesday

4th Mar

9.00 am

StA

Morning Prayer



10.00 am

StA

Tuesday Tots



2.00 pm

StA

Knit 'n' Natter



2.00 pm

StAL

Quiet Hour

Wednesday

5th Mar

9.00 am

StMM

Ash Wednesday Service



7.30 pm

StAL

Ash Wednesday Service

Thursday

6th Mar

9.00 am

StA

Holy Communion



4.30 pm

StAL

Rainbow Guides



6.00 pm

StAL

Brownie Guides



7.30 pm

StA

Hope Explored Course

Sunday

9th Mar

9.30 am

StMM

Holy Communion (Pauline Hart/Andrew Fordyce)



10.00 am

StAL

All Age Worship (Gill Bucke)



11.00 am

StA

Holy Communion (Pauline Hart/Andrew Fordyce)

To find out how you can give to the churches in the Tenpenny Villages benefice, please click here

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We are delighted to announce that the Tenpenny Villages Benefice has been awarded a Bronze Eco Church Award.

To view our Bronze award certificate, please click here

The aim of the Eco Church award scheme is to celebrate the ways that church communities have been engaging with caring for the earth as a key part of our Christian faith.

For more information, please click on the Bronze Award logo on the left.