At St. Cuthbert's Church with Houghton Area Youth Band and singer Chris Dakers. Tickets £5 from Gail Bartley (Tel 07913 917 550) or the churchwardens or pay at the door. Refreshments included.

Richard is being priested on Saturday 2 July at 5pm in Durham Cathedral. We will be ordering tickets.There will then be a united eucharist at St Giles' at 10am on Sunday 3 July when Richard will celebrate the eucharist for the first time - followed by a picnic!

Come along to hear the Early Bird Band with Paul Edis. Admission by donation. Donations go to support the Syrian Refugees in County Durham and the church.

The Early Bird Band are a group of young and talented musicians, accompanied and tutored by one of the North East's finest jazz musicians, Paul Edis.

Every TUESDAY in Sherburn Hill Park starting on 26 July (then 2,9,16,23,30 August), supervised fun activities for children and young people will be available. Activities will include:

• Football / Volleyball / Badminton / Rounders
• Bracelet making / Duck tape crafts / Drawing / Nature activities
• Board games / Messy games / Water games
• Much more!

For more details, please contact our youth worker, Rebecca Sibanda (rebecca.sibanda@stgilesdurham.org.uk)

This event is run in partnership between Sherburn Hill Community Hub and East Durham City Youth Scheme.

Join us for the East Durham Churches Together Harvest Thanksgiving Service at St Cuthbert's. We welcome the Salvation Army Band and the Revd Tim Ferguson, Chaplain to Hild-Bede College, Durham University and Bridging-the-Gap officer for Durham Diocese as visiting preacher. The service will be followed by Harvest Broth.

At the service, gifts of tinned and dried food for the Durham Foodbank will be welcome.

Join us at St Cuthbert's for a Ceilidh and Stottie Supper. Ticket for entry £8 from Joan Bell or Olive Langan.

Our annual All Souls Memorial Services will happen this year on Sunday 6 November:  3.30pm in St Mary's & 6pm in St Giles'. We invite all the families of those for whom we have conducted funerals this year and we remember them in prayer first. But if you would like to come and remember someone precious to you, then you are of course most welcome too. Sign up lists go up in church from 16 October (or do send a message to one of the clergy). As always if you are unable to attend because of ill health or you are away, please add names. Otherwise if you are including names on the list to be remembered in prayer, we trust that you will be able to join us for the service.

Join us at St Cuthbert's for an evening with local historian Michael Richardson showing old photos of the villages of County Durham. Admission £3

Join us for our Christmas Crafting Day with cake stall and broth.

This is first time St. Cuthbert’s Church, Shadforth (a small country church in a small country village) has hosted a Tree Festival. There are to be 20 x 6’ real trees on view plus smaller novelty trees decorated/sponsored by local families, organisations, businesses and other churches.

The themes chosen are varied and will include both the traditional and quirky!

7.30pm, Thursday 8th December| Gala Preview Evening . Entry is by ticket only costing £8 and includes canapés, cheese and wine with Live Music from violinist Emma Fisk Nicholson and guitarist James ’Flying Fingers’ Birkett. Tickets are limited and available from the Church Wardens - Joan Bel and Olive Langan (churchwardens@shadforthchurch.org.uk)

11am-5pm, Friday 9th - Sunday 11 December | Church Open - Seasonal refreshments will be on sale as will a programme-£2 and a quiz sheet-£1(prize) There will be a Christmas Raffle drawn on the last day.