For Safeguarding information click here

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Contact Us

The first point of contact for our clergy team is via the Parish Office – follow this link: Solihull Parish Office

All bookings and other enquiries (funerals/baptisms/weddings) should be made first via the Parish Office please.

However should you need urgent out of hours emergency clergy support the details are:

Nick Parker 07890 720240 or

Simon Marshall 0121 704 4730 or

Sue Chandler 07970 791288.

We have a dream…

On the evening of Sunday 4th August, a far-right demonstration took place on New Road between St. Alphege and the Ramada Hotel. Our church notice boards were covered over with messages of hate, and photographs taken which quickly appeared on social media. At the same time there was a very unpleasant Islamophobic demonstration on Hermitage Road outside the Hub (Deen Central). Whilst both the national and local picture have significantly calmed, we should not underestimate the distress caused to many in our Solihull community, and nor should we be under any illusion that there remains a minority who, through truth-twisting and the dissemination of lies, continue to stoke fear with the aim of causing division. Against this background we are called to witness to the Gospel we proclaim, to the surpassing love of Christ which demands us to welcome all without discrimination and always to care especially for the most vulnerable and the refugee.
To see full article by Revd Nick Parker please follow this link.

Solihull Parish Christmas Cards 2024

Available from the Bookstall or Parish Office

Tel: 0121 705 5350 Email: admin@solihullparish.org.uk

£5 for a pack of 10

What’s Happening

This week in the Parish:

Wednesday lunchtime recitals: 16th October 2024 – with Emilija Karaliute, kankies (lithuanian harp)

Recitals start at 1.10pm with tea/coffee and cake available from 12.30pm. Entry is free with a retiring collection held in aid of The Friends of St Alphege Music. All welcome. A full listing of upcoming performers can be found here.

Morning Prayer. Beginning each day with God:

Monday, Thursday, Friday – 9.00am at St Alphege Church.
We will enter by the choir vestry door and ordinarily will meet in the Chantry Chapel.  If you would like to come but would find the stairs difficult, please contact the Parish Office so that we can arrange for the service to be held in the choir stalls. All are very welcome.   

Tuesday – 9.00am at St Helen’s Church, 6 St Helen’s Road, Solihull, B91 2DA

Wednesday – 9.30am at St Michael’s, Oak Cottage, Bryanston Road, Solihull, B91 1BS

Monthly Bible Study Group – Second Saturday of every month – next session will be on 12th October, 10am, St Alphege Upper Chapel – All Welcome

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St. Alphege

Thursday 17th October – 10.30am – Said Eucharist

Sunday 20th October – Twenty- first Sunday after Trinity

8.00am – Said Eucharist – President & Preacher: Revd Canon Andrew Hutchinson

9.15am – The Junction OBH

10.30am – Sung Eucharist – President: Revd Simon Marshall & Preacher: Revd Canon Andrew Hutchinson

5.00pm – Evensong – Officiant: Revd Sue Chandler & Preacher: Revd Simon Marshall

St Helen’s – 10.00am – Holy Communion

St Michael’s – 10.30am – Eucharist

Noticeboard

Project Turnaround

Below are four documents to download for those wishing to understand the detail of the next phase of Project Turnaround.  Everyone is encouraged to give feedback.  Click here to see the congregational presentation on Sunday 29th September. What do you like, and is there anything you are less keen on?  Please email turnaround@solihullparish.org.uk

Job/volunteer vacancies

Parish Safeguarding Coordinator

District Safeguarding Coordinator

Solihull Parish Office, Oliver Bird Hall, Church Hill Rd, Solihull B91 3RQ Opening hours: Mon-Thurs 9 – 1pm; Friday 9-12noon.

Listers/Audi, Shirley 790-820 Stratford Road, Shirley, B90 4BQ

The Greville Arms Elmdon Heath Cornyx Lane, Solihull, B91 2RB

Arena Hair and Beauty, Elmdon Heath 51 Yew Tree Lane, Solihull, B91 2NX Closed Sunday and Monday

John Lewis, Touchwood Shopping Centre, Homer Road, Solihull B91 3RA (Customer services, with the option of dropping them off at the Customer Collection Point for those with mobility issues/ in the car etc)

SMBC Support – every first Tuesday of the month, Kerrie and Natalia from the Community Development Team will be sitting in the foyer of the OBH from 12noon till 3.00pm. For more information please click on the link here: SMBC Support

Useful Documents to download

Join Us Online – Sunday 13th October

Link to join 9.15am All Age Worship from St Alphege

Link to join Project Turnaround presentation

Photos from around the Parish