This month (June 2015) the Community Food Coop run by Horeb celebrates its 8th birthday. That adds up to about: 17,000 green bags filled with healthy food 9,000 hours of volunteer effort by a dozen folk from church and village £80,000 of fruit, vegetables and salad supplied £1,400 raised for Horeb in 2½ years from the Wednesday Sales Table. Visit our Food […]
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What are the odds on the weather being good? The weather teased us right up to the last minute! At 1.00 p.m. the rain was lashing down. The tables were awash and the umbrellas were up. By 1.15 the rain had stopped. In the summer heat the grass rapidly dried out. Tables and chairs were […]
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On average each person in the UK eats 10kg bananas a year – about 100 bananas! In Britain, we eat over five billion bananas every year. All of which makes Fairtrade bananas one of the most important items in the Fairtrade list. That is why, in Fairtrade Fortnight this year we focused on that fruit. Though the event had […]
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Fe Chwythodd yr awel ar Gymru drachefn, we sang with gusto to the well known tune, To God be the glory. And because many of Horeb’s congregation are not fluent in Welsh, Simon had thoughtfully supplied translations of the Welsh hymns; so we knew we were singing, The wind of the Spirit has swept across Wales […]
Read MoreLong in the consideration and planning, the Horeb Lunch Club kicked off on Thursday 4th September 2014 as we served our first meal. Eighteen people turned up to enjoy meat and potato pie, with mashed potato, carrots, peas and gravy, with stewed plums and custard for pudding and a cup of tea to finish off […]
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