The 2025 Scarecrow Festival will be held from 26th to 28th September. Previous Scarecrow Festivals were held in 2011, 2013, 2015, 2017 and 2021.
As part of the Scarecrow Festival there is to be ‘Sounds of Brass’, a brass band concert by The Staffordshire Band in St Chad’s Church, Pattingham on the evening of Saturday 27th September 2025. More details can be found here.
The Church Fete usually takes place on the first Saturday of July. The 2025 fete took place on Saturday 5th July. The 2026 fete is due to take place on 4th July.
The very first ‘Follow the Star’ event took place from 13th to 15th December 2024. This was a 3-day special community event where St Chad’s Church was full of decorated and illuminated stars of all sizes and colours, all created by villagers and their supporters from Pattingham. More details can be found here.
The 2022 Christmas Tree Festival took place from Friday 16th to Sunday 18th December. More details can be found here.
Pattingham celebrated the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee from Thursday 2nd to Sunday 5th June 2022. The Coronation of King Charles III was celebrated from Friday 5th to Monday 8th May 2023.
The Who’s for Lunch monthly lunch is held on the fourth Wednesday of each month at 12 noon. It was previously held on the third Thursday of the month but was suspended in 2020 due to the pandemic. It returned in May 2022 but on the fourth Wednesday of each month.
Holiday Clubs were held in 2022 and 2023 at the Kingswood Activity Centre. There were no Holiday Clubs in 2024 or 2025 and the future of the Holiday Club is being reviewed by the PCC. Holiday Clubs were previously held in the church until 2019.
Information about all of those can be found on these pages.
The 30th and last Pattingham Bells Run took place on Sunday 6th October 2019.
We take part every year in the Link to Hope Christmas Shoebox Appeal. Details are here.
News and pictures of things which have already happened.
- Hymns and Pimm’s – September 2025
- Merry’s Induction on 10th August 2025
- Fete 2025
- Ken Scott’s last service as a Reader – Easter Day 2025
- Will’s Challenge 19 – 19 challenges set to celebrate the life of Will Payne who died aged 19
- Follow the Star – December 2024
- Fete 2024
- Rogation Sunday 2024 – Rogation walk and service at St Mary’s
- Martin Fox appointed as Organist and Choir Leader – December 2023
- Fete 2023
- Confirmation Service – 11th June 2023
- Good Friday and Easter 2023 – events for children and young people
- Dedication of the new cupboards by the Adam and Eve window – Easter 2023
- Colouring competition to support Ukraine – March/April 2023
- Celebrations for the Coronation
- Christmas Tree Festival 2022 – December 2022
- Experience Christmas – December 2022
- Holiday Club 2022 – August 2022
- Fete 2022
- Presentations to Gladys Jones and Martin Parker – June 2022
- 2021 Scarecrow Festival – September 2021
- Farewell Tea Party to mark retirement of Maureen Hobbs – August 2021
- Maureen’s last Sunday before retirement – May 2021
- RIP – HRH Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh – April 2021
- Christmas Carol Service on the Playing Fields – December 2020
- Harvest Festival on the Playing Fields – September 2020
- The story behind the organ console used in Worship on the Web
- St Chad’s Church awarded the Silver Eco Church award – July 2020
- Update on Dan Fox – April 2020
- St Chad’s Church awarded the Bronze Eco Church award – March 2020
- Marking Maureen’s 10 years at St Chad’s – January 2019
- Christmas Tree Festival 2018
- Our new organist – October 2018
- Harvest 2018
- Fete 2018
- Rogation Walk 2018
- Sponsored Sing and Play – Music for Mwiyenga – December 2017
- Scarecrow Festival 2017 – September 2017
- Holiday Club 2017 – August 2017
There are also links to older information, which while it is not up to date may be of interest.
There are lots of photographs in the photo gallery.