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WELL, not quite; but All Saints’, in Wellingborough, Peterborough diocese, has been open every morning during July and August for drop-in workshops on a wide variety of skills and pastimes. “About 20 people have come in off the street, so to speak, each morning,” says the Vicar, the Revd Tony Lynett, “and all have found something to do.”
He and his pastoral assistant, Fred Raitt (above), started off with a workshop in fishing-fly tying, but on other mornings there were workshops for decorative felt-making, lace- and paper-plane-making, singing, and sugar-paste modelling. There were a jigsaw-puzzle corner, quiz sheets, Fairtrade and bric-a-brac stalls, and a prayer chain. Some people, the churchwarden, Caroline Skinner, says, simply came in to find someone to talk to. “The pastoral aspect has been particularly important.”
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