Fundraising Cover Band Night

Kingston Calling

All Saints Church Kingston presents: Run For Cover

Last years Fundraising Band Night was an amazing success so we are VERY happy to announce that we’re doing it all again!  Expect Kingston’s favourite cover band www.runforcoverlive.com playing live floor-fillers spanning disco, Britpop, rock and dance. They are joined by DJ Sophie who will be playing a mix of funky electronic beats.

Early bird tickets at £15 but this will rise to £25 shortly so please get your tickets early!!!

Part of Kingston Council’s Local History and Community Month.  We will be hosting a reasonably priced fundraising bar and there will be large tables with seating for those who want a bit of a rest after the dancing!

Raffle with fab prizes from local businesses.

Stories of Identity and Inclusion to Celebrate St Georges Day

Kingston Episcopal Area Racial Justice Group presents…
Stories of Identity and Inclusion to Celebrate St George’s Day
Sunday 19 April 4 – 7pm All Saints’ Kingston

Come, hear and share reflections on national identity in a spirit of openness and fellowship

Please bring a cake to share (what could be more English than tea and cake?!)

4pm onwards Arrive
4.15pm – 4.45pm Welcome & Short talks 4.45pm – 5.15pm sharing our own stories and discussion
5.15pm Plenary
6pm Choral Evensong Preacher Bishop Martin

Speakers and profiles
Jordan Allen (member of St Peter’s Norbiton) A Paralegal and a follower of Jesus.
Lorraine Thomas (member of Immanuel and St Andrew Streatham), Housing provider with a social purpose (I build leaders not just homes)
Joseph Vambe – British Church Relations Manager at Christian Aid, Southwark Councillor

Tackling Modern Slavery Faith Talk

All Saints Kingston is hosting this important talk on Modern Slavery on Wednesday 20^th May at 6.30pm.

The event is part of our “Faith Talk” series which has built up a following, attracting expert speakers and knowledgeable panellists to debate the Christian response in the “public square” on the big issues of today.  Our talks have been quoted as “Faith Based, not Faith Biased” and are public town hall style events with questions invited (and encouraged!) from audience members.  As always, the talk will be recorded and available to watch on our YouTube channel after the event.

Our main speaker is Jiska Stieler – Women’s Hub Coordinator at Voices of Hope and local campaigner against Modern Slavery.  The talks are ticketed so we can keep a tally of numbers but totally free of charge.  

FREE Lunchtime Recitals at All Saints Kingston

We hold free Lunchtime Recitals at 1.15pm on Mondays and some Fridays in the Nave.

This popular series of top quality free recitals returns for the summer season with dates below.  For inclusion on the mailing list please email [email protected]

Monday Music

• 27^th April Mitra Alice Tham (Piano)
• 4^th May David Wong, Amy Ng, Ngai-Yi Mok (Clarinet Trio)
• 11^th May Amit Grewal (Piano)
• 18^th May Robert Johnston (Piano)
• 25^th May Yoon Seuk Shin (Piano)
• 1^st June Annabel Mae Bigland (Soprano)
• 8^th June Catherine Leonard (Piano)
• 15^th June Michael Bevan (Piano)
• 22nd June Lin Xu Xhang (Piano)
• 29^th June Chuanwei Wang (Piano)

Friday Organ Music

Friday Lunchtime Organ Recitals from 24th April 1.15pm.  Come and hear our renowned Frobenius organ played by some of the country’s finest organists.

• 24 April – Alan Erdelyi, All Saints, Kingston
• 8 May – Stephen Westrop, New Malden
• 29 May – Richard Gowers, St George’s, Hanover Square
• 5 June – To be confirmed
• 19 June – Peter Bullett, New Malden Methodist Church

Free to attend with optional retiring collection in support of the musical life of the church.

Maintenance work on Kingston bells

The renovation and maintenance work on Kingston’s bells will take place 23 February-27 March. The last major work was done in 1972 when the anti-clockwise ring of 10 bells were rehung and increased to the 12 glorious bells we have today. During the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries there was considerable rivalry between towers, and the fact that Kingston had a ring of 10 bells by the mid eighteenth century suggests that the town and parish church had considerable importance.

Kingston bells were all cast by the Whitechapel Bell Foundry and range in age from 1826 to 1972, so this year we are celebrating the 200th anniversary of two of our oldest bells (bell 8 and 9).

We now need to carry out some essential maintenance work to ensure the bells and fittings are fit for the next 50 years. This will be carried out by Nicholson Engineering, our preferred bell maintenance company. The work being carried out includes:

• Replacement of ‘gudgeons’ (bearing supports) on the bell 11

• Replacement of ball bearings (which the bells swing on) on all 12 bells

• Refurbishment of all 12 clappers (these hang inside the bell and strike it)

• Repainting the bell frame and fittings.

During the 5-6 weeks of silence, our ringers will be visiting other towers, including St Mary’s Hampton and All Hallows Twickenham.

The bellringers are grateful for all the help they have received in raising the funds for cost of the project. Join us for a special service of rededication on Sunday 19 April, 9:30am. The bellringers are baking for the occasion!

Paul Flavell

Tower Captain

Confirmation

All Saints will be hosting the Deanery Confirmation Service on 26^th April at 6pm. We’d love to hear from adults or young people who might be interested in Confirmation. Please contact [email protected]

“Come and See” Nurture Courses

We have an exciting programme of courses and discussion groups lined up for January-June for people of all stages of faith.   Please look out for specific leaflets in church with full details.

Courses coming up soon:

Lent discussion groups: Thorny Verses of the Bible
25 February, 4 , 11 , 18 and 25 March (see Lent leaflet for times)
Based on our Lent Evensong series of sermons which will reflect on some of the hard and controversial passages of the Bible.

GraveTalk
13 May 6.30-8pm.  A café space to explore the big questions of death, dying and funerals.

Twilight Embroidery Talk Event

This event is now fully booked and we’re sorry for anyone who missed out.  There is an alternative afternoon talk on Tuesday 19th May 2-4pm, please book via the button below.

The panels were created by award winning contemporary embroiderer Jacky Puzey, based on an original design by Sophia Pearson. Jacky’s speciality of machine embroidery is further embellished with hand embroidery and beading by Beatrice Mayfield, contemporary hand embroiderer and visiting lecturer at the Royal School of Needlework.

Our embroideries headlined an edition of the national “embroidery magazine”.  Read the article here   Come and see them in person!

For further details, please visit our website Saxon Kings Embroidery Project – All Saints Church

New Archbishop of Canterbury

We were delighted to welcome the Rt Revd and Rt Hon Dame Sarah Mullally DBE as she becomes the 106th Archbishop of Canterbury.

Please pray for the new Archbishop

Read the full announcement from the church of England here.

Read the full announcement from the Diocese of Southwark here.

Update on Public Talk – Stories from Israel-Palestine

Over 200 people attended this talk from the Very Reverend Nicholas Papadopulos, Dean of Salisbury with Ruth Valerio from the Embrace the Middle East charity.  Over £550 was raised for EAPPI (Ecumenical Accompaniment Programme for Palestine and Israel) plus £165 from the bar towards church funds.  You can read a synopsis here or donate to EAPPI here.

This talk recording, together with a number of many others may be accessed via our You tube channel @allsaintskingston8231.

All Saints Kingston previously hosted a series of Faith talks which featured a number of well known speakers on a variety of important subjects, including the changing shape of war and artificial intelligence.  Please click here to watch them.

House of Bishops statement on Gaza

Please pray for all those suffering in Gaza.  The House of Bishops have met in York and issued a statement on the war in Gaza which may be read here

We fully support this statement from the House of Bishops.

Annual Report 2024-2025

We are rightly proud of all the amazing services, groups, events and activities that take place in our wonderful church.  We will never have space to mention them all but a snapshot is included in this years annual report, shared at our APCM in May 2025 which you may read by clicking the button below.

You can also read the financial report here.

Squirrel Surprise

2023-24 booklet

This gives an oversight on All Saints over the past year, our activities and projects and what we need to do to continue moving forward to ‘fund the vision’ and complete these as well as essential building maintenance.

It is with your continued support and generosity we have managed to achieve so much over the past year and longer. This is not just much needed financial support through regular planned giving and other means, but through volunteering your time. We thank you wholeheartedly for this and hope that you can continue to give generously.

Please consider helping us by making a new or increased pledge, please use the form HERE.

And, if you would like to become a volunteer at All Saints please contact our Comms Manager, Kate Shrimpton here: [email protected]

 Printed Copies are also available in the church.

Diocese of Southwark statement on the Makin report

A review of the Church’s handling of allegations of serious abuse carried out over a period of 40 years by the late John Smyth has been published. The independent learning lessons review was led by Keith Makin.

Please click here to read further.