You are invited to our special Anniversary service to celebrate 150 years since Mary Sumner began the Mothers’ Union and 40 years since the re-forming of Brockenhurst Branch. Please join us at 2.30 in St. Saviour’s Church on Thursday 20 August and for tea and cake after the service.

We have another term of very interesting guest speakers and invite anyone to come along to our meetings, where you will receive a warm welcome – you don’t need to be a member, a mother, or even a woman!

This year we are celebrating the 150th Anniversary of the birth of the Mothers’ Union by Mary Sumner, in Old Alresford, near Winchester. In Brockenhurst, we are celebrating throughout August with a ‘planted garden display’ of knitted and crocheted flowers in blue, yellow and white (Mothers’ Union colours) in the

Members have been busy making Fidget Quilts for people who have dementia and after being blessed in a recent church service, 10 have been presented to Heartland Manor for use by their residents.

We began the Mothering Sunday weekend by making spring posies to be given out to the congregation at the Sunday service, and also arrangements for the two Care Homes in the village – see photos below. At the Mothering Sunday service, a Mission Sunday, our Vicar Simon, invited the Mothers’

Once again, members filled ‘Little Bags of Love’ to be given to parents of children starting school in September. Each bag contained a tea bag, a coffee sachet, chocolate biscuits, a sachet of drinking chocolate, a small pack of tissues, a prayer card and literature leaflet about the work of