v EMAIL: editor@herald-publishing.co.uk v 15th February 2024 • The HERALD • Page 49 Yours Faithfully... Everyone welcome to our Services SUNDAY MORNING SERVICE 10.30AM 1st Sunday of the month Communion HAMPTON LANE, BLACKFIELD SO45 1XA You are invited to BETHANY CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP Rollestone Road, Holbury Every Sunday, 6.20pm for 6.30pm Christian Worship & Teaching 023 8089 2153 Everyone Welcome 24” high from £550 30” high from £675 (Prices inclusive VAT) Installation anywhere in England and Wales Memorials refurbished and inscriptions added Colours and full range of memorials available ACTIVITIES FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES From the Parish of Hythe We have so much going on for children and young people at St John’s and St Anne’s. For those of you with very little ones, Chris runs both Little Footprints and Toddlie Winks at St Anne’s Church. Little Footprints on a Monday is designed with non-mobile babies in mind, and then Toddlie Winks on a Thursday is perfect for toddlers. Both groups run from 1pm-2.30pm and you are guaranteed a warm and friendly welcome. On a Friday evening, our Youth Club meets in St John’s Hall from 6pm-7.30pm. All young people from school year 6 upwards are welcome to attend. There are a range of games available as well as a chill out zone and a tuck shop. Once a month on a Saturday, Rev Lee runs Who Let the Dads Out in St John’s Hall. This group offers a fun space for dads and male carers to interact with their children and with each other. The next session is Saturday 2nd March, 10am-12noon. Our monthly Messy Church sessions on a Friday afternoon are always great fun for all the family. They are next running on 23rd February at St John’s Church or 1st March at St Anne’s Church. Come and have a go at a range of different activities and enjoy a free meal together. Both sessions run from 3.30pm-5pm. Throughout the year, we run baby signing courses. If you’d be interested in joining the next course, please email Chris on the email address below. We also have some exciting plans afoot for a new venture called Bubble Church. This will be launched later in the spring. Do keep your eyes peeled for more information! We are also starting to plan for this year’s summer holiday club, Space Academy. This will be running from 29th July to 2nd August and more details will be announced in due course. If you have any questions or want further details about any of our activities for children and young people, please contact our Children’s and Families Pastor, Chris McMahon on families@stjohnshythe.org or pop in to the office in St John’s Hall to say hello. Westerleigh Group Offers Bespoke Memorial for Music Lovers Westerleigh Group is now offering bespoke vinyl records featuring recordings and images of a loved one, each containing a small amount of their ashes, via its crematoria in Hampshire. The group is always looking for new ways to help create unique and personal memorials and its latest offer comes through a new partnership with And Vinyly, who can press the ashes of a loved one onto a traditionally-made vinyl record, creating a unique memento. Westerleigh Group is one of the UK’s largest independent owners and operators of crematoria and cemeteries, with 40 sites in England, Scotland, and Wales, all set within beautifully landscaped gardens of remembrance which provide pleasant, tranquil places for people to visit and reflect. Its local facilities are New Forest, Test Valley and Wessex Vale crematoria. Options include making several 7” or 12” records for a similar price to a single vinyl, therefore enabling family members and friends to each have a lasting record of their loved one to treasure. The record can include a personal message, someone’s own soundtrack or just the sound of silence with the unmistakable background of the pops and crackles of a vinyl record. Matthew Brook, Westerleigh Group’s Head of Partnerships and Propositions, said: “We are always looking to expand the range of memorial options available to the bereaved in order to give them the widest possible choice and help them to create uniquely personal memorials for their loved ones. What you receive is a real playable vinyl record containing around 18 minutes of audio on each side, along with a small amount of the ashes. And it is not only music that can form the soundtrack, many people choose to include recordings of special occasions or conversations with their loved one on the vinyl. The process enables people to design their own sleeve and label artwork too, if they wish, using templates provided by And Vinyly.” And Vinyly was established in 2006 by Yorkshirebased music producer and music label owner Jason Leach, who had been reflecting on mortality in general but found himself focusing on it a little more after his mother began working at a funeral directors. He said: “We have developed a unique additional process that enables us to press a small amount of a loved one’s ashes into real vinyl records, creating an audio-visual memento. The first step is the collation of the content. This can be collaborative and is, we have learned, often a cathartic experience, with friends and family contributing photographs and words, voicemails, answerphone messages and recordings of special times. Our partnership with Westerleigh Group will enable us to serve even more bereaved and help them create beautifully bespoke vinyl records which can be kept at home, played and cherished for generations.” Anyone who wants to find out more about And Vinyly records should visit the website of their nearest Westerleigh Group site or visit the crematorium and talk to the team. www.newforestcrematorium.co.uk/ashes-in-vinyl www.testvalleycrematorium.co.uk/ashes-in-vinyl www.wessexvalecrematorium.co.uk/ashes-in-vinyl Jason Leach (left) and Matthew Brook
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