St Mildreds

07/09/2026

🌿🌸 Whatever the weather, you can be sure of a warm welcome! 🌸🌿

The forecast for tomorrow afternoon may be a little mixed, but that won’t stop our St. Mildred’s Community Gardeners from having some fun!

Join us for a charity fundraising afternoon in aid of the Ryan Neuro Therapy Centre, with delicious homemade cakes, good company and plenty of garden fun.

Tuesday 8th September
2pm – 4pm
St. Mildred’s Community Garden

Everyone is welcome — come along, enjoy a cuppa and a slice of cake, and help us raise money for a wonderful cause. 💚

We look forward to seeing you! 🌻

02/09/2026

September Recital

Autumn Recitals Our recital series will resume after our 3.30pm Choral Evensong on 13 September, with the brilliant organist Lucy Morrell. Lucy is Sub-Organist of HM Chapel Royal, St James’s Palace, and Organist of Dulwich College. Some of you may recall that she played superbly for our Christmas Carol Service a few years ago.

Autumn Recitals Our recital series will resume after our 3.30pm Choral Evensong on 13 September, with the brilliant organist Lucy Morrell. Lucy is Sub-Organist of HM Chapel Royal, St James’s Palace, and Organist of Dulwich College. Some of you may recall that she played superbly for our Christmas ...

02/09/2026

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Please join us next Tuesday - 8 September 2pm - 4pm for an afternoon of fun and fundraising for the Ryan Neuro Therapy Centre
Everyone is warmly welcome to come along and enjoy a selection of homemade cakes, tea, coffee, good company and a chance to support an important local charity. With luck the weather will be kind, allowing visitors to spend time relaxing and enjoying the community garden as well

02/09/2026

Domestic Abuse Forum – 12 October

Domestic Abuse Forum: To highlight the challenges faced by victims of domestic violence and abuse, and to reflect together on how local organisations and communities are responding, we will be holding a Domestic Abuse Forum at St Mildred’s from 7pm on 12 October. There will be presentations from key charities and stakeholders, together with an opportunity for panel discussion, questions and conversation....

Domestic Abuse Forum: To highlight the challenges faced by victims of domestic violence and abuse, and to reflect together on how local organisations and communities are responding, we will be holding a Domestic Abuse Forum at St Mildred’s from 7pm on 12 October. There will be presentations from k...

01/09/2026

We are once again a drop off point for your donations

🎉 Our 2026 Appeal is LIVE! 🎉

We’re back for our 17th year, starting today — 1st September, which also marks Childhood Cancer Awareness Month, where this charity began 💛

The appeal runs until Monday 30th November. We're collecting brand new children’s pyjamas to donate to hospitals, hospices, and women’s refuges across the UK.

📮 All PJs must be received by 30th November. They must be new and unwrapped – we cannot accept used items.

🛍️ HOW TO DONATE
Amazon Wishlists – Buy new PJs & have them sent straight to our collection points:

Main Wish list : https://amzn.eu/07obhXDM
Leicester : https://amzn.eu/0dy4ZB21
West End Surrey Group : https://amzn.eu/0fGjmze6
Buckinghamshire : https://amzn.eu/0cWtzjQ0
Bishops Stortford : https://amzn.eu/0clgZ7D1
Durham : https://amzn.eu/02jnFxhu
Willesborough : https://amzn.eu/09MInDt4
South Wales : https://amzn.eu/0dwtVLNX
Hersham : https://amzn.eu/0fMhOKf0
Camberley : https://amzn.eu/0fN6KKbG
Bo’ness : https://amzn.eu/0h3DdENO
(Not all areas that we support have a Wishlist)

📍Want to donate locally? Use our postcode tool to find drop-off points near you: 🔗
www.childrenshospitalpyjamas.co.uk/donate (more being added daily).

📦 Posting pyjamas?
Send to: Children’s Hospital Pyjamas, Suite 3-5 Challenge House,
616 Mitcham Road,
Croydon, CR0 3AA

⚠️ Important Notes
* PJs must be brand new
* Do not wrap – they need to be checked
* Avoid Christmas designs, fleecy PJs, and onesies (wards can get warm)
* We need sizes from newborn to age 18 (large adult)
* Both boys and girls PJs are needed.

This year, we have almost 400 establishments requiring our support. Hospitals, hospices & women’s refuges UK-wide. Your support truly makes a difference 💛
(please see our website for full list of recipients.)

Please share this post – every share helps us reach more people, receive more donations, and support more children.

Thank you for helping us spread love through comfort 💛

26/08/2026

A Monthly Service of Healing

A Monthly Service of Healing On 27 September, we will begin a new monthly Sunday evening Service of Healing at St Mildred’s and on the 4th Sunday in each month from then on. This will be a quiet and reflective service with Scripture, prayer, a short homily and time for prayer before the Sacrament. There will also be an opportunity, for those who wish, to receive individual prayer with the laying on of hands and anointing....

A Monthly Service of Healing On 27 September, we will begin a new monthly Sunday evening Service of Healing at St Mildred’s and on the 4th Sunday in each month from then on. This will be a quiet and reflective service with Scripture, prayer, a short homily and time for prayer before the Sacrament....

26/08/2026

Autumn Discipleship

why not join us at 7.30 pm each Monday from 7 September for a series of talks and readings, discipleship and teaching. Full Programme here

why not join us at 7.30 pm each Monday from 7 September for a series of talks and readings, discipleship and teaching. Full Programme here Subscribe To OurMailing ListJoin our mailing list to receive a weekly digest of website news and updates via email from St Mildred's Church and Centre. SUBSCRIBE...

26/08/2026

Sunflower season at St. Mildred’s Community Garden! 🌻

Last year we proudly announced that our preschool, Millies Preschool, and our Community Gardeners had (we thought) grown the tallest sunflower in Addiscombe — at an amazing 9ft 10inches!

This year, our sunflowers haven’t quite reached those dizzy heights — perhaps the very high temperatures and lack of water have had something to do with it! But my goodness… what they lack in height, they certainly make up for in flowers!

We have 22 individual flowers on just one stem. Is that a record for Addiscombe?! If anyone has grown more sun flowers on a single stem, send us a picture, we'd love to see it.

And there’s a reason to come and enjoy our gardens …

OPEN DAY COFFEE & CAKE FUNDRAISING AFTERNOON

Tuesday 8th September
St. Mildred’s Community Garden
2PM -4PM

We’ll be raising money for the Ryan Neuro Therapy Centre an independent, self-funded registered charity that provides specialist physiotherapy and supportive therapies for adults living with neurological conditions.

So, come along, enjoy some cake, admire the garden and our amazing multi-flowering sunflowers — and help support a very important local charity.

🌻 Everyone welcome 🌻

25/08/2026

Please join us on Tuesday 8 September 2pm - 4pm for an afternoon of fun and fundraising for the Ryan Neuro Therapy Centre

Everyone is warmly welcome to come along and enjoy a selection of homemade cakes, tea, coffee, good company and a chance to support an important local charity. With luck the weather will be kind, allowing visitors to spend time relaxing and enjoying the community garden as well.

17/08/2026

🌳🐻 “If you go down to the woods today, beware of a big surprise!” 🐻🌳

Oh, what fun we had at our Sing, Sow & Grow Teddy Bears’ Picnic!

With the help of Maree from Musical Bumps Croydon, we listened to a lovely story about a bear’s bedtime, then sang, danced and even gave our teddies a ride on our HUGE parachute – which they absolutely loved!

Then it was off on a bear hunt around St. Mildred’s Community Garden! 🐻 Along the way, our mini gardeners helped water the plants, picked some lovely tomatoes and collected seeds to plant in biodegradable pots.

After all that fun, we were definitely hot, thirsty and hungry, so our wonderful St. Mildred’s Community Gardeners treated everyone to a Teddy Bears’ Picnic, complete with teddy-themed snacks and plenty of fruit.

What a fantastic morning – lots of singing, dancing, gardening, exploring, eating and, most importantly, LOTS OF FUN!

Join us for our next Sing, Sow & Grow session:
TREES & LEAVES 🍂🌳

Monday 28th September
10.45am

Places are limited, so our sign-up list is now open!

To book a place, email your names to [email protected]