NEWS AND EVENTS JUNE 2018 MOTHERS UNION Please remember that we are hosting the Deanery IMPC Service and Afternoon Tea on Tuesday 12th June starting in Church at 2.00pm. All members are welcome. Our meeting this month will be held on the 21st of June in the Church Hall at 2.00pm. Our Speaker will be Mrs. Kath Bill giving a talk Do You Remember? We will be visiting our indoor members on Thursday 7th June, meeting at the Hall at 2.00pm. Tea will be served by Mrs. Norma Richards and Mrs. Suzanne Richards. Silver Cleaning will be carried out by Mrs. Linda Grant. Margaret Thompson Branch Leader EVENING MOTHERS UNION GROUP There will not be a meeting of the Evening Mothers' Union group in June, all members are invited to attend the afternoon group. Our next meeting will be held in September OVER-FIFTIES LUNCH The Lunch will be held on Thursday 14th June at 12.30pm in the Hall. At the Lunch, Katy Bradley will give a musical presentation: 'A Walk Through The English Countryside - an occasion not to be missed! Please let Cath know by lunchtime on Wednesday 13th June if you hope to attend. (613500) BIBLE STUDY GROUP This group meets at the home of our Reader, Jane Slinger, 10, Dudley Close, Longton, and will meet at 10.30am on Tuesdays 5th and 19th June. All will be very welcome. Further details from Jane tel: 614369 THE HOUSE GROUP The date of the next meeting of the House Group will be announced. All are welcome to join the Group.
FROM THE REGISTERS: Holy Baptism You will notice that we are no longer printing the addresses of those baptised. This is to comply with Data Protection Regulation. 29 April: Maci George Moore (conducted by Fr Michael Woods) 13 May: Edward Colin Andrew Ferguson Funerals in Church 3 May: June Gregson 16 May: Maureen Helen Bond CHRISTIAN AID & OTHER DEVELOPMENT ORGANISATIONS THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT FOR CHRISTIAN AID WEEK Thank you to all who helped in any way with the house to house collection by distributing and collecting envelopes, counting money and giving donations. This is always an extremely important event and helps to raise the awareness of the public of the huge amount of suffering in the world caused by natural and man-made disasters and endemic poverty - and to provide an opportunity to support those in need of help. An important part of Christian Aid s work is providing homes for internally displaced people - those who have lost their homes but are still living in their own country. In Church there is a house built by the Pathfinders and Changemakers, representing homes built by Christian Aid in Haiti for some of the thousands of people who lost their homes in the earthquake and the hurricane, many of whom have been living for years in the rubble. LONGTON OPEN GARDENS and ART EXHIBITION Sunday July 8th 1.00-5.30pm, with lunches in the W.I. 12.00 noon - 1.30pm We hope to have at least ten gardens open to the public with attractions including ukulele music, folk music and guitar music and refreshments of tea and cake, ice-cream and strawberries and cream. Programmes will be available towards the end of June from Blundells Hardware and Longton Post Office. Further details: 612951 and 613500
FAIRTRADE BREAKFAST A Fairtrade Breakfast will be organised by the Changemakers on SUNDAY 3rd JUNE, from 8.45 9.45am, and, from 11.15am - 12noon, with the usual varied menu of Fairtrade products. Please do come and support the Breakfast LONGTON LIVE! 2016 Friday 13th July & Saturday 14th July FULL DETAILS OF EVENTS WILL BE MADE PUBLIC DURING JUNE Friday 14th July In the afternoon the children of Longton Primary School (1.45pm) and St Oswald s Catholic Primary School (2.30pm) will sing in the Church 7 10pm Activities in both the Church and Hall Saturday 15th July 7 10pm Activities in both the Church and Hall Admission to all events is by wristband. Please get them from us at the Church when they do become available. We will announce further details of the programme when they are available We need volunteers to help in the Church and Hall on both Friday and Saturday between 6.30pm and 10pm. If you can help, please contact the Vicar or Jill Bond. THE GARDENING GROUP The Gardening Group have been working in the Churchyard and graveyard since May 2016. During this time a lot of work has been undertaken to improve the overall appearance of the Church. The work has involved the removal of Ivy from the walls of the
church and church hall. The trimming and removal of foliage. Clearing fallen tree branches and leaves in the autumn and winter months. The Marble Tablets in the churchyard situated in front and at the rear of the church are regularly cleaned and the areas tidied. Signage has been put in place in the Church and graveyards and affixed to the walls of the Church Hall. The Old Boiler House has now had the door repaired and has been secured, together with the gate at the top of the steps. I am most grateful for all the support that has been given by the volunteers who willingly give of their valuable time and expertise, also to everyone who has passed on their thanks for all the work undertaken. The group are now taking a well earned break over the next few months and are hoping to continue the work in the middle of September. Martin Reynolds TO COMPLY WITH THE NEW DATA PROTECTION LAW: DATA PRIVACY NOTICE The Parochial Church Council (PCC) of Longton St Andrew 1. Your personal data what is it? Personal data relates to a living individual who can be identified from that data. Identification can be by the information alone or in conjunction with any other information in the data controller s possession or likely to come into such possession. The processing of personal data is governed by the General Data Protection Regulation (the GDPR ). 2. Who are we? The PCC of Longton St Andrew is the data controller (contact details below). This means it decides how your personal data is processed and for what purposes. 3. How do we process your personal data? The PCC of Longton St Andrew complies with its obligations under the GDPR by keeping personal data up to date; by storing and destroying it securely; by not collecting or retaining excessive amounts of data; by protecting personal data from loss, misuse, unauthorised access and disclosure and by ensuring that appropriate technical measures are in place to protect personal data. We use your personal data for the following purposes: - To enable us to provide a voluntary service for the benefit of the public in a particular geographical area as specified in our constitution; To administer membership records; To fundraise and promote the interests of the charity; To manage our employees and volunteers;
To maintain our own accounts and records (including the processing of gift aid applications); To inform you of services, news, events and activities running at St Andrew s and at other linked churches in Longton and the Leyland Deanery; To share your contact details with the Diocesan office so they can keep you informed about news in the Diocese and services, events and activities that will be occurring in the Diocese and in which you may be interested. To contact individuals via surveys to conduct research about their opinions of current services or of potential new services that may be offered. 4. What is the legal basis for processing your personal data? Explicit consent of the data subject so that we can keep you informed about news, events, activities and services and process your gift aid donations and keep you informed about Diocesan events. Processing is necessary for carrying out obligations under employment, social security or social protection law, or a collective agreement; Processing is carried out by specified members of the Church provided: - o o the processing relates only to members or former members (or those who have regular contact with it in connection with those purposes); and there is no disclosure to a third party without consent. 5. Sharing your personal data Your personal data will be treated as strictly confidential and will only be shared with other members of the Church in order to carry out a service to other Church members or for purposes connected with the Church. We will only share your data with third parties outside of the Parish with your consent. 6. How long do we keep your personal data 1? We keep data in accordance with the guidance set out in the guide Keep or Bin: Care of Your Parish Records which is available from the Church of England website [see footnote for link]. Specifically, we retain Electoral Roll data while it is still current; Gift Aid declarations and associated paperwork for up to 6 years after the calendar year to which they relate; and Parish Registers (Baptisms, Marriages, Burials) permanently. 7. Your rights and your personal data Unless subject to an exemption under the GDPR, you have the following rights with respect to your personal data: - The right to request a copy of your personal data which the PCC of Longton St Andrew holds about you; 1 Details about retention periods can currently be found in the Record Management Guides located on the Church of England website at: - https://www.churchofengland.org/about-us/structure/churchcommissioners/administration/ librariesandarchives/recordsmanagementguides.aspx
The right to request that the Longton St Andrew corrects any personal data if it is found to be inaccurate or out of date; The right to request your personal data is erased where it is no longer necessary for the PCC of Longton St Andrew to retain such data; The right to withdraw your consent to the processing at any time The right to request that the data controller provide the data subject with his/her personal data and where possible, to transmit that data directly to another data controller, (known as the right to data portability), (where applicable) [Only applies where the processing is based on consent or is necessary for the performance of a contract with the data subject and in either case the data controller processes the data by automated means]. The right, where there is a dispute in relation to the accuracy or processing of your personal data, to request a restriction is placed on further processing; The right to object to the processing of personal data, (where applicable) [Only applies where processing is based on legitimate interests (or the performance of a task in the public interest/exercise of official authority); direct marketing and processing for the purposes of scientific/historical research and statistics] The right to lodge a complaint with the Information Commissioners Office. 8. Further processing If we wish to use your personal data for a new purpose, not covered by this Data Protection Notice, then we will provide you with a new notice explaining this new use prior to commencing the processing and setting out the relevant purposes and processing conditions. Where and whenever necessary, we will seek your prior consent to the new processing. 9. Contact Details To exercise all relevant rights, queries or complaints please in the first instance contact The Vicar, Longton Vicarage, Birchwood Avenue, Hutton, Preston, Lancashire. PR4 5EE. You can contact the Information Commissioners Office on 0303 123 1113 or via email https://ico.org.uk/global/contact-us/email/ or at the Information Commissioner's Office, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire. SK9 5AF. 100 CLUB We are one quarter into the year and I would like to thank all those who renewed their membership at the start of this year. Unfortunately we lost quite a number of members and are now down to 61. If you are reading this and are not a member please have a word with me and I will provide the relevant information for joining. Some of you will be aware that earlier in the year the Churchwardens and Church Treasurer met with representatives of Longton Players to discuss the upgrading of the stage lighting in the Church Hall. This upgrade is necessary as most of the present equipment is over 50 years old and could give up the ghost at any time which would be
disastrous if it were to happen at Pantomime time or when plays were being performed. The Church representatives agreed to allow the work to be carried out and an estimate of 16000 was accepted by both parties the cost of which would be shared. Of the Church s share 3000 will come from the 100 Club. This would not have been possible without your continued membership. Thank you. ORGAN RECITAL Derek Thompson The next Organ Recital will be held at 7.30pm on FRIDAY 15th JUNE, when the Recital will be given by Alistair Mackenzie of St Anne s Parish Church, St Anne s-on-the Sea. Admission is 6 (pay at the door) including refreshments. LOOKING FORWARD: WORLD CUP FINAL - Sunday 15th July The World Cup Final kicks off at 4pm in the afternoon of Sunday 15th July. We will be consulting on whether for that one Sunday we don t have an afternoon Service, or whether we change the time. SIDESPEOPLE Those who could not attend on Sunday 20th May will be sworn into Office at all Services on Sunday 10th June MAGAZINE MATERIAL Material; for the July/August edition of the Magazine should be given to Cath Greenlees by Friday 8th June, or to the Vicar by Tuesday 12th June. Material can be e-mailed to the Vicar at andrew.parkinson@talktalk.net REPORT FROM RUSSIA Hello and welcome to another edition of Russia through the eyes of a Lancashire lad. This is a special bonus report with my views on slightly less touristy Russian cities that I ve visited over the past month. I promise I m still at university and working very hard as well. We start at Kronstadt, a town located on an island in the middle of the Gulf of Finland, close to St Petersburg. It is famous for various mutinies and rebellions of sailors based there at the start of the twentieth century. The highlight of the town is undoubtedly the huge, and very impressive, Naval Cathedral. Located on the central square, it looked stunning with the sun glistening off its gold dome. The inside too was breath-taking and unique. The other highlights were seeing the current Russian navy fleet and enjoying an ice cream in the sun (even if it was only 7 degrees, it felt warmer!) The following weekend Sean, Julia and I embarked on our big trip to Novosibirsk, Irkutsk, Vladivostok and Kamchatka in the Far East of Russia. Novosibirsk is Russia s third largest
city and the capital of Siberia. Despite this, there was not an awful lot to see there, at least in comparison with Moscow and St Petersburg. We took photos of the monuments to the first traffic light in Novosibirsk and to laboratory mice, wandered round Akademgorodok, a purpose-build science and research town just outside of the city, and watched the opera Aida at Russia s largest operatic theatre. The local people were really friendly, chatty and helpful. We made lots of good memories with the hostel staff, who appreciated that we spoke Russian to them. Irkutsk is a city used as a base by tourists to see Lake Baikal, however it was the first city that I d ever seen that looked like it belonged in Asia. The buildings were low, the streets dusty, the cars were mostly right hand drive and the people were from multiple different backgrounds (a mix of Korean, Mongolian, Chinese and Russian). We took two tours here; the first was a hiking tour from a station on the Trans-Siberian railway, through the taiga (a type of dense, inhospitable forest) to the lake shore, then walking along the disused Baikal lakeside railway line to Kultuk, the village at the Southern end of the lake. Lake Baikal is the deepest and clearest lake in the world and the views were simply superb. The tap water in Irkutsk is clean to drink (unlike almost anywhere else in Russia) as the water comes straight from the lake. Baikal contains 20% of the world s drinking water and could supply the whole world with water for the next 40 years if every other supply stopped tomorrow. Our tour guide then picked us up and drove us to our overnight stop in the village of Arshan in Buryatia. Along the way we stopped off at Russia s largest observatory and an extinct volcano crater located in the Tunka river valley. Once again, the views were incredible, with mountains to the left and the right, and empty fields and tiny villages on either side of the single, long, straight road leading to Mongolia. Buryatia is the region located on the Mongolian border with strong Mongolian influences, for example the most prominent religion here is Buddhism. We visited a Buddhist datsan (temple) and saw how Buddhists tied ribbons to tree branches around areas which they prayed. The following day we hiked up to a waterfall, bought souvenirs in the Mongolian market and had a dip in some hot mineral springs to relax our aching bodies before finally heading back to Irkutsk. It was unreal to witness ancient traditions still being practiced in the present day. Following on from Irkutsk we headed to Vladivostok, a safe 175 miles from the North Korean border. The best way I can describe Vladivostok is an Asian San Francisco with the bay of Palma de Mallorca. The city is laid across several hills with two huge, unmissable, modern bridges in the foreground. We arrived in the early hours of a Sunday morning, so decided we should attend the morning Service of the local Orthodox Church. Compared to the Service we saw at St Isaac s Cathedral in St Petersburg and a Church of England Service there were several key differences. Firstly except for a few of the oldest ladies, everyone was stood up for the entirety of the two-and-a-half-hour service; it s tough on the legs, especially after an overnight flight! Secondly, the priest kept reciting repeatedly the words Lord have mercy ; he must have said them several hundred times in all. Finally, the communion involved not only bread and wine, but a cup of holy water. A similarity to the St Isaac s Service, and common throughout Orthodox Services, was that the choir sung their responses and songs a cappella. Following the Service, we took another hiking tour around Russky Island at the tip of the city. Although the weather was slightly foggy, the views on top of the cliffs were superb. The next day we visited a safari park which acts as sort of a rehabilitation park for rare animals. There were a whole range of cute, deadly animals including Amur tigers, Amur leopards (the rarest big cat in the world with only 80 in the wild), bears (including the cutest little bear cub), deer, raccoons, an otter, a badger, hedgehogs, and lots of birds including an impressive falcon. Our guide was once again excellent, and we learnt a lot of obscure animal vocabulary; for instance,
the fast train from Moscow to St Petersburg has the same name as the peregrine falcon: Салсан (Sapsan) Our final stop was Kamchatka, the peninsula that juts out just below Alaska. Here the time difference was +11 hours from the UK (and +9 from St Petersburg). The city of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky is unspectacular, although the backdrop is astounding. Mountains surround the city on three sides (the Pacific Ocean is the fourth) and we took snowmobiles up to two volcanoes just outside the city. There we chatted about football with our guides while eating sandwiches, drinking tea and looking out over mountains as far as the eye could see. We even saw a fresh bear track in the snow and chased a hare down the slopes. Magical. Despite the warm (-7 degrees) on top of the volcanoes we still had to wear sunglasses and sun cream as the sun was extremely intense. We headed home to St Petersburg from Kamchatka on two flights that took around 11 hours, weary but happy. We landed back exactly a week ago. Since then we ve witnessed Victory Day celebrations and visited Peterhof and Vyborg. Victory Day (celebrated here on 9 th May) is a huge event in Russia. The main event is the Immortal Brigade where in St Petersburg alone just over a million people of all ages walked down Nevsky Prospekt holding portraits of their relatives that fought in the Second World War, shouting Hooray and singing traditional songs. Peterhof is the location for a huge palace, in the style of Versailles, and the most magnificent landscaped gardens. The fountains there are simply incredible, the amount of gold is almost frightening, and the displays attract visitors from all over the world. Vyborg, on the other hand, was slightly less impressive yet still a nice little town on the border with Finland. Just over a month of my year abroad left. Scary really. Still we have more adventures planned to Kaliningrad, Kazan, Yaroslavl, Moscow and Sochi. Oh, and I ll try and find time to pop into the Hermitage again. Lots of love to everyone back home, Andrew Clelland.