Outdoor service of thanksgiving and remembrance with lighting of the hospice Christmas Tree.

Free admission. Warm up with mulled wine and mince pies at South Farnham School afterwards. Make your own donation to 'Light up a Life' with a small donation (see hospice website).

Christmas Market for Phyllis Tuckwell Hospice at St Thomas-on-The Bourne Church. 10am till 12.30pm. £3 entrance includes refreshments. See link on Home Page of this website for poster with full details.

Town Crier Performance for ‘Save Organ' fund

The Farnham Town Crier, Jonathan Jones, will narrate Dickens’s seasonal classic ‘A Christmas Carol’ at St Mark’s Church, Upper Hale on December 5th at 7.30pm. There will be no charge for the evening, but a retiring collection will be taken in aid of ‘Emily’ the pipe organ.

Jonathan Jones remarked, “It is a dramatised reading, based on the script that Dickens himself used for his acclaimed public readings, both here and the United States of America, where the characters of Scrooge, Bob Cratchit, Tiny Tim and Christmas Past, Present and Future were brought to life on the stage by a solitary figure.”

The Reverend Lesley Crawley, a priest at St Mark’s said, “We are so thankful to Jonathan for offering this performance to save ‘Emily’.Emily is a beautiful Edwardian pipe organ that is just over 100 years old. She is referred to as ‘Emily’ after her benefactor – Emily Mangles. Sadly, she can no longer be played regularly as she is in need of a complete overhaul. I’m really looking forward to the event. Please put the date in your diary and come along with all your friends.”