Patronal Festival Report - St Peter and St Paul, Todwick

St Peter and St Paul, Todwick
Patron Saint: St Peter and St Paul
Festival Date: 28 June 2026

On 28th June 2026, our Patronal Festival took place in Todwick Parish Church - our patron saints being St Peter and St Paul. 

I arranged for an advert in the Rotherham Advertiser, a local newspaper, posters were put up around the village and A5 adverts placed in prominent positions in the 3 churches in our group. Our church is a relatively small one that will hold about 70 people, but when I looked at the records yesterday we had 54 attendees, at the festival, the majority of them went to the post service reception ! 

I am delighted to tell you that the Patronal Festival was an unmitigated SUCCESS.  Oh yes it was splendid.
A nice sunny day and the 3 church bells we have, rang out  loud and clear. One of the bells has a preservation order on it.

Our "church garden gang" planted some flowers to welcome everyone.

Even the church notice board had a 'lick of paint'.

The flower ladies weaved their magic in the Porch. Nave and Chancel.

Our Reverend Vicky Camber led the service where we had the expertise of the organist and choir from All Saints Parish church at Aston cum Aughton to ensure the Choral Evensong was beautifully performed.

The after service refreshments, were ordered from a nationally known and respected supermarket who supplied a click and collect facility to ensure freshness. Using the church hall, some of our communicants {plus an outside helper} set up the hall and a 'self service ' facility which worked very well. 

For a small, parish church we put on an excellent church service and refreshments. Let me put it this way, the majority of the refreshments were consumed and the few 'leftovers' disappeared for other church groups. 

Then we need to look at how it worked- for me this is an important part. It brought together all sorts of communicants with different experiences. Different ideas. Different suggestions. It was wonderful to hear people say "Can I help". I have organised events in the past so it wasn't totally new to me.

BUT, that said, I confess it was my first church service I had started and organised. I enjoyed the experience.