Saturday 12th April 2014 saw a small number of dedicated and hard-working RRT members come together at the entrance of the Sandon village on the Woodhill road (on the east of the A12). The volunteers meticulously cleaned the white slatted fencing and signage above as well as cutting back and pruning the adjacent shrubbery. Additional […]
The Plymouth Brethren Christian Church visited an old people’s care home in Hoddesdon to perform a concert for them on 24th December 2013. Over 40 enthusiastic choral students from Hertford and Barnet spent many hours, often in the evenings practicing the songs, to a high standard. The group consisted of a senior choir and a […]
The spring sun broke through the early mist as the clean up got under way in Moorland on Saturday 8th March and 20 volunteers from the RRT arrived to help the Environment Agency and Sedgemoor Council start moving sandbags from the properties that had suffered from severe flooding for several weeks. Meeting in the car […]
Members of the Plymouth Brethren Christian Church (PBCC) live very full lives, but still have time to interact with people living around them, and love to contribute to society in the communities in which they live. This brief documentary has been put together in order to help dispel some of the myths surrounding the brethren, […]
Staff from the Southampton General Hospital organised a sponsored walk to raise money for the Anthony Nolan Trust after one of their colleague’s children was diagnosed with Leukaemia. Phoebe is a three year old girl who lives in Waterlooville and is currently being treated in Bristol Hospital after she caught an infection following chemotherapy for […]
Recently, the Plymouth Brethren Christian Church in Norwich decided to offer a park bench to each of the nine Parish and Town councils around their city hall. These benches were of three types made of either wood, metal or a combination of both, with a small brass plaque showing who had donated them. All the […]
At 11:37am on Tuesday 18th March 2014, a huge fire broke out in the kitchens of the Prezzo restaurant on Albert Street in Harrogate and quickly spread to the two storeys above, destroying flats owned by a housing association. More than 90 firefighters and 18 fire engines were brought in to battle the blaze, as […]
Friday night, and with winds already strong and 60mph gusts forecast, on top of ground saturated by weeks of rain….. Yeovil Rapid Relief Team had a gut feeling that there would be something to do! The first call came at just before 9:00pm from a member of the congregation; a large tree had fallen across […]
On Friday 14th February, the RRT received a call from the Chertsey Fire & Rescue Service requesting assistance with the catering at the Chertsey Fire Station, for the many Rescue workers. Teams of RRT volunteers were organized to work in three shifts, starting at 9am and finishing at 11pm. Teams from the Services were drafted […]
My Grandfather – Samuel Harold Bond, was one of the younger sons of Thomas and Mary Bond – local in a small meeting near Exeter called Newton Poppleford. They lived on a farm where J.N.D used to visit them. However, as there were four sons, there was no room on the family farm for him […]
