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    Successful Bank Holiday Blood Donation Scheme

    Tuesday, 31 August 2021 Over the three days of the August bank holiday weekend, seven of the London UCKG HelpCentres came together to support the NHS’s Shepherds Bush Blood Donor Centre. Their aim was to encourage and make it easy for members of London’s diverse BME communities to give blood, while also explaining why it […]
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    High Praise for Pop-up Vaccination Centre

    Monday, 19 July 2021 The pop-up vaccination centre, open for one day at the UCKG’s Catford HelpCentre on Saturday 17 July, was highly praised by local dignitaries. In just four hours 227 people received jabs at the pop-up, which was open for all, including attendees at the HelpCentre’s weekly soup kitchen, the church’s members and […]

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    Woolwich HelpCentre Inauguration

     Monday, 19 July 2021  It has taken 16 years for the UCKG to fulfil its ambition to establish a full time  branch church in Woolwich. The inauguration of the new HelpCentre on the first floor of 115-123 Powis Street, SE18 6JL in the afternoon of Sunday 18 July was therefore a very special occasion indeed. […]

    the Book of Proverbs,

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    Soup kitchen opens at Peterborough HelpCentre

     Monday, 2 August 2021  The Mayor of Peterborough, Councillor Stephen Lane and the Mayoress, Mrs Margaret Lane, were guests of honour at the grand opening of the city’s new soup kitchen on Saturday 31 July. A total of 54 people including the dignitaries, volunteer helpers and users came along to the UCKG HelpCentre at 70 […]

    a common experience of hardship,

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    Nottingham HelpCentre celebrates its food bank

     Monday, 5 July 2021  With six months’ service to the local community under its belt, the food bank at the UCKG HelpCentre in Thurland Street, Nottingham celebrated with a grand opening on Saturday 3 July. Ever since December 2020, the food bank has been open from 11am until 1pm on Saturdays to distribute free food […]

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    Pop-up Vaccination Clinic at UCKG Catford

    COVID-19 vaccinations will be available to all on a walk-in basis at the UCKG’s Catford HelpCentre on Saturday 17 July, under the auspices of the NHS South East London Clinical Commissioning Group. The vaccination clinic will be open from midday until 4pm at 1 Bromley Road, SE6 2TS for one day only. It will then […]

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    VYG Spring Clean in Plaistow

    As part of this year’s Great British Spring Clean, which took place between 28 May and 13 June, members of the Plaistow branch of the Victory Youth Group helped out with a litter pick at the New City Road and New City Green on Saturday 5 June. The volunteers tackled residential streets and public play […]

    members of the Plaistow branch of the Victory Youth Group,

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    Glasgow HelpCentre formally opened

    After many months of renovation work on the building, Scotland’s first UCKG HelpCentre was formally opened at 1104 Shettleston Road, Glasgow on 28 May. Although the HelpCentre will normally seat a congregation of 163, far fewer members, guests and friends were in attendance, under the current restrictions.  The evening inauguration service was led by Bishop […]

    experience the power of God,

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    A successful community-building dining initiative

    With the prospect of ‘normality’ still weeks off, the UCKG HelpCentre launched its Cook Out to Reach Out initiative at the Rainbow Theatre, Finsbury Park on 1 May. Over 100 of the hardest hit members of the local community were provided with a good quality restaurant meal and food to go, thanks to the coordinated […]

    Cook Out to Reach Out,

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    Easter eggs for children in Leeds Hospital

    Children who spent Easter in hospital in Leeds, were given 102 Easter eggs by the parents and children of the city’s UCKG HelpCentre, with the delivery made on 29 March, in good time for the holiday weekend. Lisa Beaumont (left), manager of Leeds General Infirmary Children’s Hospital received the donation from Meleita Ledgister, (centre), wife […]

    HelpCentre’s Children’s Biblical Centre,

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