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Mothers’ Union members around the Diocese of Winchester will be doing different things to celebrate National Marriage Week, which runs 7th – 14th February. If you are not involved directly with organising events, please pray for those preparing for marriage all who are married those who are facing difficulties those who marriages have ended [...] Following through with our Bye Buy Childhood campaign, and the recommendations of the Bailey Review, various new Codes of Practice have been issued by the appropriate organisations. This are available on the Bye Buy Childhood campaign website, but for ease of access can also be found below: The Advertising Standards Authority are not able [...] We would like as many Mothers’ Union supporters as possible to come to our next Information Day. Tuesday 29th November 2011 10am – 2pm St Leonards and St Ives Village Hall At our July Information Evening we held taster sessions exploring how we might action our new FIVE YEAR PLAN and went away to [...] Mothers' Union free homemade cake stall at RAF Odiham Families Day, 10th August 2011 – with Apache Helicopter doing aerobatics above! At an RAF base, on holiday, in word, through worship and with free cake, Mothers’ Union members across the Diocese are supporting families in fun, practical ways this month, as the [...] Mothers’ Union leaders in the Diocese of Winchester have spent much of the last year working on a 5 year plan that will provide all our supporters with a focus for their energies in the next few years. At our July Diocesan Meeting in Romsey we started to focus on exactly how our local [...] Families First is the name of Mothers’ Union national magazine, and it describes exactly what Mothers’ Union does – we put families first! In the coming month we’re linked with two very family and children orientated events: National Family Week runs from the 30th May – 5th June (across Spring Bank Holiday and half-term!) [...] It has been announced today (Monday 6th December 2010) that Mothers’ Union Chief Executive has been asked to head a review into the commercialisation and sexualisation of childhood. The story first appeared in the Sunday Telegraph yesterday, and was confirmed today by in the BBC and by the Department of Education . The DofE press [...] Jesus was very clear that faithful relationships are the model and structure for living together in harmony as: families, friends, neighbours, communities, nations and internationally. He was also very clear that faithful relationships are equally important in the development and nurture of our individual and collective faith journey. Throughout the Bible God loves that [...] Travelling Festivals are enjoyable projects, enabling local groups to reach out to families with young children. They can bring the stories behind major Christian festivals into the homes of families connected to your church, in the midst of what are becoming increasingly commercial times of year. Mothers’ Union in the Diocese of Winchester [...] Mothers’ Union has launched it’s Bye Buy Childhood Campaign, which aims to encourage a cultural shift away from the exploitation of children through marketing, and offers parents support and advice on coping with the impact of our multi-media world on family life. The Mothers’ Union’s regional communications officer in the Diocese of Winchester is [...] Research out today shows that 80% of UK parents believe media and marketing with sexualized content is too easily accessed by children, and makes them sexually aware too young. Research carried out amongst 1,000 parents by ComRes, for Mothers’ Union, showed that 71% of parents believe that the media encourages children to act [...] On Wednesday 11th August at RAF Odiham’s Family Day, Mothers’ Union members from across the Diocese of Winchester distributed free drinks and homemade cake to the family members of serving personnel at the base. The gift of free tea, coffee, squash and cake, grew out of a desire by local Mothers’ Union members to [...] As the Anglican calendar remembered Mary Sumner, the founder of the Mothers’ Union, members and supporters across the Diocese of Winchester were actively living out her desire to support family life, in a whole variety of ways. At 10.30am on Monday 9th August , a small group of members gathered at the grave of [...] This weekend sees the opening of the North Hampshire Child Contact Centre in Hook. It will be opening on the first and third Saturday’s of March to its first clients. The North Hampshire Child Contact Centre has been initiated by, and the management committee is made up of, members from the North Hampshire Downs [...] |
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