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How about creating your on Carol Service in a local pub or a Residential home for the elderly. Find out when a carol service will be on air and give out carol sheets so people can join in with the singing. NOt everyone can get to church – or would want to go – so take the celebrations to them.

You could even do it just with your neighbours and offer mince pies and mulled wine.

Your house -making holly wreaths and discussing plans for Christmas

Hi everyone and we hope you are managing to keep warm and cosy now the weather has turned. This is the time of year when everyone wants to stay in (very sensible – I slipped while walking the dogs this morning and landed heavily in a puddle).

Even if some of us have taken a tumble, our social lives don’t need to take a nose-dive. Why not gather a bunch of neighbours for a warming mulled wine or winter punch and get the fireside stories going. Try making an advent wreath and telling the story as you light the first candle when it’s your turn to talk.

You can also make plans for Christmas while you’ve got them together. Anyone for Carol Singing???

A very big Thanks to all those who came away with us to Coventry – for the warmth and the love shown to the team and to each other.

We’ve been reading the feedback forms for the Activate weekend away and they are overwhelmingly positive. So many of you made reference to next year that we are planning an ‘Action Replay’. So get 13-15 November 2009 in your diaries and start saving up for a fun filled, action packed weekend.

Try looking at the National Special Days in the Calendar to help you think of unusual ideas.

We don’t need much help in December do we – and this is such a busy time but do try and include others who are alone this Christmas.

We’ll let you have a break but we’ll be back in January with a raft of ideas starting with 6th January – watch this space!