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Free of charge ISSUE 46 Parish news from Petersfield to the Isle of Wight MARCH 2006 How a Swanmore man rescued these kids from streets of Sierra Leone My Faith: page 8 Diocese gains reputation for promoting Fairtrade goods WE’VE DONE IT! Bishop Daniel Sarfo presents the certificate to the Very Rev David Brindley THEY’RE all smiles as Fairtrade products are produced, it country. I’m very pleased to be rying the Fairtrade Mark, which Mayor will host a Fairtrade tea we are officially seemed appropriate for a able to present this certificate as guarantees that suppliers in devel- party in Portsmouth Guildhall, to declared a ‘Fairtrade Ghanaian bishop, the Rt Rev we celebrate our mutual links in oping countries have been paid a celebrate the Fairtrade status Daniel Sarfo, to officially present your cathedral.” fair price. Without that guarantee, achieved by our diocese, the RC diocese’. the certificate to the dean of our To gain Fairtrade diocese sta- farmers can go out of business as diocese and the university. That means our parishes, cathedral, the Very Rev David tus, we had to show that one-third world prices for items like coffee, On March 11, News columnist cathedral and diocesan bodies will Brindley. of our parishes used or sold tea and chocolate fluctuate hugely. Heather James will host a gain an international reputation for The presentation happened Fairtrade products, our diocesan There are now 1,300 Fairtrade Fairtrade salsa evening at giving a fair deal to producers in during the annual IDWAL Festival synod had to support the principle, products, including cotton, foot- Portsmouth Irish Club on Elm developing countries. at our cathedral, which celebrates and Fairtrade products had to be balls and Easter eggs. Grove, Southsea. Tickets, priced The Fairtrade Foundation has our links with West Africa. available in our diocesan offices Fairtrade status has also been at £6 each, are available on 023- declared that enough of our Bishop Daniel said: “The peo- and in meetings of our boards and awarded to the city of Portsmouth, 9287 7422. parishes and diocesan bodies use ple of this diocese have shown committees. The Fairtrade the Isle of Wight, Portsmouth’s And on March 17, Caribbean and sell Fairtrade products for us they are committed to helping Foundation is now encouraging Roman Catholic diocese and the banana grower Maria Sergeant to gain Fairtrade diocese status. their brothers and sisters across individual churches to gain University of Portsmouth. will visit the university and local As our diocese has links with the planet. Fairtrade products are a ‘Fairtrade church’ status. Campaigners are striving for simi- schools to talk about the differ- churches in Ghana, where many lifeline for many people in my Fairtrade goods are those car- lar status for Fareham, Havant and ence Fairtrade has made to her East Hampshire. community. See www.portsmouth Campaigners aim to celebrate fairtrade.org.uk for details. Bishop will return for Easter these recent awards and promote On the Isle of Wight there will BISHOP Kenneth’s first public encouraging anyone to come. gies,” he said. “I can’t begin to the issue during Fairtrade be a Fairtrade open forum on engagement after treatment for After four courses of say what this means to me, to Fortnight from March 6-19. March 2 at St Thomas’s parish leukaemia will be on Maundy chemotherapy, the bishop’s ill- Sarah, to the rest of my family. In Portsmouth there will be a centre, Newport. And campaign- Thursday. ness is now officially classed as Your prayers have meant more Fairtrade stall in the Cascades ers will ask all the island’s super- The bishop will lead the being ‘in remission’. That than I can tell. shopping centre each day, a dis- markets if they can set up stalls Chrism Eucharist in our cathe- means it has been successfully “But I am going to take it play in Central Library and com- from 10am-4pm on March 11 and dral at 11am on April treated, but he still gently - it’s too risky to do oth- petitions to find the best Fairtrade 18. Ring Jim Curtis on 01983- 13 after six months of has to have regular erwise at this crucial stage. retailer and the best school 526574 if you can man such stalls. chemotherapy treat- checks to see whether “It will be a long time Fairtrade display. On March 6 and See www.iwff.org.uk for details. ment and recuperation. the cancer has before I can even begin to 13, Fairtrade bananas will be And in Fareham, shoppers It will mark the start of returned. make some kind of sense of it. given away in Guildhall Square, will watch street theatre, view dis- his gradual return to Bishop Kenneth But I have felt the hand of and there will be tasting stalls in plays and get creative as cam- public duties. (pictured left) has also God, even at the lowest and libraries on March 11 and 18. paigners bring Fairtrade to West The Chrism spoken about stream- most awful moments. Simeon Greene from Street between 9.30am and 2pm Eucharist is traditionally the lining his responsibilities in the “When I pick up the reins, Windward Island Bananas will on March 11. Fareham MP Mark occasion when clergy, Readers wake of his illness. therefore, I don’t really want speak on ‘Going Bananas for Hoban and the Lord Mayor of and others involved with min- “The pathologist has been to have to talk to people about Fairtrade’ in the Spinnaker Tower Fareham will offer their support istry gather in our cathedral to very positive about the future, my illness and how I’m feeling. café on March 7. Join him at 4pm, during the day, and supermarkets see the chrism oils blessed by and about the real likelihood of I would rather put it all to one and hear him speak at 5.30pm. will be encouraged to display the bishop. But Kenneth is regaining all my former ener- side and ‘move on’.” The next afternoon, the Lord which Fairtrade goods they sell. 2 news Facilitators Delegates urged to release their potential available to READERS and clergy have encourage clergy to loosen been encouraged to release the reins and allow the laity the potential of all lay wor- some responsibility. help with shippers in their pews - for Bishop Mike suggested the good of the whole that there was a perception parenting Church. that ‘full-time’ equated to The occasion was the ‘professional’, and ‘part- IS your parish thinking of setting annual Readers’ conference time’ to ‘amateur’, but there up a parenting group to help on the Isle of Wight, when 25 are many gifted, professional mums and dads in your parish get incumbents joined 102 ‘amateurs’ in our church not to grips with their roles as par- Readers and their spouses being used. ents? during the weekend. Another point raised was Setting up such a group may The Bishop of Bristol, the that the bishop’s Kairos be one of your cluster’s Kairos Rt Rev Mike Hill, and the process had helped parish- projects, but your congregations Rev Anne Faulkner, from ioners to look beyond their may need some expertise to do Wroxall, spoke of the need to parish boundaries and organ- so. Or perhaps the leaders of your empower lay people to take ise projects at cluster level. parish’s existing group have responsibility and not leave This spread the load and moved on, and new leaders need Readers and clergy deep in discussion during the conference things to clergy, and to involved more laity too. to be trained. Our diocesan Mothers’ Union already has two trained facilita- tors who can help you with this. Alison Hubbard, from Hambledon, is available on the mainland, and Judi Hackleton, School shoots to from Brighstone, can help parish- es on the Isle of Wight. Contact the MU office on 023-9287 3277 or mothersunion. [email protected] and one of them will contact you. The MU also runs parenting top of the league groups itself, which provide an opportunity for parents to get OUR diocese’s only well on the ‘value added’ score – together and talk about the joys church secondary the amount that individual pupils’ and challenges of bringing up school is celebrating attainment improves while they children in a supportive environ- are at that particular school. St ment. after it was named as Luke’s came top of a league table Typically six to 10 parents the second most of state schools in south-east meet for six to eight weeks to improved comprehen- Hampshire. discuss a range of subjects, sive in the country. Staff said the improvement including positive parenting, came partly because of the mix of effective communication, build- Exam results at St Luke’s C of academic and vocational subjects ing confidence, problem-solving E School in Southsea have rocket- on offer, and the decision to let and active listening. ed over the past four years – from each pupil create their own indi- Each group is led by a facili- six per cent gaining five GCSEs vidual curriculum, featuring the tator - volunteers who have been with grades from A*-C in 2002 to subjects they are best at. trained to meet national standards 58 per cent last summer. That Deputy headteacher Paul of quality and excellence. They improvement could only be bet- McKeown said: “The children have each gained external accred- tered by one other secondary arrive here with low levels of liter- itation through the London Open school in the country.

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