Spring Cleaning Day
On Saturday 2nd April St. Mary's is having its spring clean day. This will be day when all the church members get together to help clean the church and do minor repairs.
There are lots of jobs to do, which are listed below. Please sign up for a team and help get the church spick and span.
Most of the major work will be done in the morning. If you wish, you can sign up for the afternooners who will be there to finish off any outstanding work, and make sure the church is ready for Sunday.
Please bring any clean equipment you feel you will need. We will have plenty of vacuum cleaners, but gloves, dusters cloths etc would be most welcome.
If you can only come in the afternoon, please join us for Lunch as this is primarily intended to be a social event!
For lunch, you can either have soup and bread which will be put on for you, or you can bring some of your own food.
| Sitters (People who would prefer to do sit down jobs) | From 10:30 am |
| Sorting / grading candles – inventory | |
| Sorting and checking hymn books – repairs | |
| Cleaning silver/ candlesticks etc – removal of wax etc | |
| Sorting children’s corner boxes, checking pens work etc | |
| Sorting hymn numbers etc | |
| Sorting hassocks | |
| Service tea / coffee / soup | |
| Walkers (People happy to move around the church, but not climb) | From 10:30 am |
| Dry brushing windows and window ledges in Nave | |
| Vacuuming of window ledges subsequent to above | |
| Litter removal and careful brushing under all pews | |
| Very careful dry brushing of St Catherine’s altar reredos | |
| Sorting and vacuuming vestry | |
| Sorting and vacuuming Choir vestry | |
| Sorting and organising area behind organ | |
| Clearing, cleaning and sorting room in North tower? If it needs it? | |
| Wiping down and polishing pulpit, eagle, font cover | |
| General wiping down of tables, coffer, tops of cupboards etc | |
| Brushing and vacuuming Chancel | |
| Vacuuming aisles | |
| Cleaning out and repairing areas of missing tiles(not re-seating though) | |
| Floor scraping – wax removal | |
| Swap locks on West door and North tower | |
| Wiping down and polishing the altar rails | |
| Climbers (People who are happy to stand on ladders / scaffolding) | From 9am |
| Dry brushing walls and windows in Chancel | |
| Dry brushing of gilt reredos | |
| Vacuuming high ledges subsequent to above | |
| Careful dry brushing or vacuuming of screen | |
| Brushing down and vacuuming West Screen – both sides | |
| Afternooners - Climbers and Walkers | From 13:30 |
| Finshing off any jobs which have not been completed in the morning | |
| Clearing up and getting the church ready for the Sunday service |
Will be also more general overlapping jobs like sorting rubbish into recycling piles, helping to clear parts of the SW corner and the choir vestry and behind the organ.
Tea, coffee and juice will be supplied throughout the day.
A team will be working on the shed in the churchyard and hopefully another team on the roof to clear guttering etc.
Obviously there will be a lot of dust so some of the jobs will not be able to be carried out until the high level cleaning is done. Because of this we have a variety of start times.
We don’t expect everyone to stay all day – it’s as much or as little as you can manage – any time spent helping is very welcome.
In order to sign up please contact the church office or Harry to let us know which team you would like to join.