The music of the Taizé Community has become a staple in worship. But many of us have little sense of how extensive it is. Come and spend a day exploring beautiful and lesser known chants, interspersed with periods of reflection and silence. We will end the day singing what we...
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Dear Guests - there is no longer a bursary scheme in place for this retreat. The cost has been reduced from £300 to the bursary price of £225 per person for everyone who books. Kind regards, The Warden Friday and Saturday, 21st and 22nd November 2025 Holland House, Cropthorne, Worcestershire...
Event Type: Residential
A retreat led by the Revd Dr Inderjit Bhogal. Taking forward the teaching of Deuteronomy and Jesus, Inderjit Bhogal, founder, and President of the Cities of Sanctuary movement, will examine loving God, ourselves, and our neighbour, through creating safe spaces, internal and external, refuges for human flourishing. These days will...
Event Type: Residential
Description Theme: ‘Bright Morning Star’ Monday 24th November 2025 Create Art Ministry the Creative Sanctuary -Relaxation & Art Therapy I’m Kay Mason the founder of Create Church – Sanctuary Arts Community based in Worcestershire. Create is a wonderful Art Ministry that connects us to our Creative God and it’s my...
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Encounter Meditation An in-person evening retreat with music, art and silence. An invitation to take an hour out of the busyness of modern life. Facilitated by contemplative practitioners, Mary Flitcroft and Helen Stanton, sessions will start with a piece of live music or artwork followed by a time of reflection,...
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A weekend led by Yvonne Bell, Mary Flitcroft and Helen Stanton. Arrivals from 4pm on Friday until 2pm on Sunday. Includes all meals, refreshments and accommodation Please note that Holland House does not provide a choice menu at meal times and it is therefore very important that you note any...
Event Type: Residential
Description Theme: Greatest Love – Hearts 1 Corinthians 16:13-14 Monday 23rd February 2026 Create Art Ministry, offers a time and space in the week, to be still from the busyness of everyday life. At Create we use Christian Mindfulness, Relaxation and Art Therapy to do just that, using art materials...
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A.E. Housman and a Herefordshire Lad Max Hunt tells the tragic story of how three gifted lives became intertwined in the autumn of 1895: Harry Maclean, a young officer cadet from Cradley in Herefordshire; A.E. Housman, a stoical professor of Latin at University College, London; and Oscar Wilde, the famous...
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Description Theme: ‘Lord Reign in Me – Collage’ Psalm 93:1, Psalm 96:10, and Psalm 97:1 All declare that "The Lord reigns," Monday 13th April 2026 Create Art Ministry, offers a time and space in the week, to be still from the busyness of everyday life. At Create we use Christian...
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Jeremy Holmes has previously given talks on John Donne, Lord Byron and Shakespeare's Lost Women. In this talk he tells the tale of Ernest Shackleton. When Ernest Shackleton set off to cross the Antarctic for the first time in 1914 he was already a celebrated explorer, but his ship quickly...
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