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4,200 children

That's how many we were able to give toys to this Christmas, thanks to your kindness and generosity!  When our team first met up in September last year to plan for the Toy Appeal, we were concerned about how great the need would be, and especially as it would be set within  a cost-of-living crisis.  But we needn't have worried, as people rallied to help wherever and however they could.  

Our Christmas toy appeal has now ended.  Thank you so much to everyone who contributed and to all those who volunteered.  We will be back in the new year to tell you how many children we were able to help ... and we couldn't have done it without your help! 

 

BCM’s Christmas programme has become a ‘help line’ for local families who are in need and similar projects have now been run by BCM for well over 100 years. 

BCM is launching a podcast to highlight the many issues that its projects and staff teams work to support every day. ‘Because Caring Matters’ will be a monthly broadcast of half hour-long episodes, each tackling and discussing a different subject matter. Launching with a triple bill on Friday, 6th May, the first episodes will cover dementia, mental health in young people, and hoarding.

Rev David Campton has amassed 30+ years of poems for a new anthology to be launched next month

Doodlings and Doggerel is David's first published anthology of poems that he has written over the last 30 years. An "enthusiastic amateur", he brings a combination of understanding, knowledge, perception and form to each piece, allowing the reader to briefly join him on a private journey of comprehension of the wider world, his personal surroundings or what might have been going on in his head at that time.

David said:

Rev David Campton has amassed 30+ years of poems for a new anthology to be launched next month

Doodlings and Doggerel is David's first published anthology of poems that he has written over the last 30 years. An "enthusiastic amateur", he brings a combination of understanding, knowledge, perception and form to each piece, allowing the reader to briefly join him on a private journey of comprehension of the wider world, his personal surroundings or what might have been going on in his head at that time.

David said:

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