August 2015, 92 year-old Vera Elward took a sponsored microflight to raise money for the church organ fund. When she was 95 years old she raised more money by flying a glider for an hour. She also wrote a poetry book to add to her money -raising efforts. In total she raised about £4000 towards the renovation of the church organ.
Copy of a Souvenir pull-out of roof restoration 2009-10 in The Beam 4 The total cost of the repairs to the Nave and Chancel Roofs was £410,000. In addition to the large number of donations from local people and those further afield, we received some £115,000 from a wide variety of events arranged by the Fund Committee members. These proved to be highly enjoyable for our community and included: A Raise The Roof Auction of Promises, a Clay Pigeon Shoot, a number of Concerts held in the Church, a talk by a famous local politician, an ‘Antiques Road Show’ held on a glorious summer’s afternoon and a Barn Dance held in Church. Donations from organisations within Bampton included: The Friends of Bampton Church Bampton Parish Council Bampton Community Shop Society for The Protection of Bampton The Junior Church We also received over £230,000 from external sources including: English Heritage The Church Commissioners Oxford Historic Churches Trust The National Churches Trust The Mercers Company Garfield Weston Trust The Pye Trust The Council for The Care of Churches We are most grateful to all our many Donors, without whose support the Roof could not have been repaired
Service of Induction draft 2 - for Janice Collier. the new vicar of Bampton with Clanfield in September 2018 What you need to know about Janice. She is a bit bossy, after all she used to be a physiotherapist, working at Alder Hey Childrens Hospital, and in Special Schools. Married to Andrew with 3 grown up children and 5 granddaughters. Ordained in 2001 at Liverpool Cathedral, served as a curate in Holy Trinity Formby, and then as Vicar of St Mary, Hale with Halebank in 2005 and the Deanery Youth Minister. In 2010 she became Team Rector in the South Widnes Team with three parishes, and now it is time to move on and be Vicar of Bampton with Clanfield. She loves ballet, watching , not performing. She enjoys eating Italian food. She is really quite normal
Vera Elward aged 92 took a flight in a microlight to help raise money for the restoration of the beautiful pipe organ in St Mary The Virgin Church in Bampton. Vera ran the Sunday School for over 20 years and has always worked for the church
