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© Nick Berry

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

30th Mar

9.30 am

StMM

Holy Communion (Andrew Fordyce/Nick Berry)



10.00 am

StAL

Mothering Sunday Service (Gill Bucke)



11.00 am

StA

Mothering Sunday Service (Pauline Hart/Nick Berry)

Monday

31st Mar

9.00 am


Morning Prayer on Zoom *



2.30 pm

StA

Lead and Preach Team meeting

Tuesday

1st Apr

9.00 am

StA

Morning Prayer



10.00 am

StA

Tuesday Tots



2.00 pm

StA

Knit 'n' Natter



2.00 pm

StAL

Lent Group

Wednesday

2nd Apr

9.00 am


Morning Prayer on Zoom *

Thursday

3rd Apr

9.00 am

StA

Holy Communion



4.30 pm

StAL

Rainbow Guides



6.00 pm

StAL

Brownie Guides

Sunday

6th Apr

8.00 am

StA

Traditional Communion (Pauline Hart)



10.00 am

StAL

Family Communion (Andrew Fordyce/Pauline Hart)



11.00 am

StA

All Age Worship (Julie Thompson/Hazel Martin)



11.15 am

StAL

APCM



4.30 pm

StMM

Evensong (John & Valerie Harper)



6.30 pm

StA

APCM

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.