News and Events

25th Anniversary +1

On Saturday 20th November we celebrated 26 years since the Cornerstone opened! It was lovely to see everyone who came to celebrate our silver anniversary one year late.

Make and Bake for Under 5's

We are delighted that our Make and Bake sessions have started up again and are being held on Tuesday mornings from 9.30-11am (in term time). Cost £2 per child includes activities and drink. No need to book, just turn up.

Christmas Shopping

Advent Sunday is 28th November and we have a large selection of Advent Books including the Archbishop of York’s 2021 book.

Christmas goods in stock now:

Christmas cards – including Foodbank Christmas cards from the Trussell Trust, a percentage of sales income going to our own foodbank
Advent calendars and advent candles – the pyramid shaped ones are selling fast.
2022 calendars and diaries
Books, including a variety children’s Christmas books for all ages
Many gift items including the ever popular bamboo socks, jewellery, scarves and more
Traidcraft food items

Baking Ingredients

Don’t forget your baking ingredients – we have a selection of dried fruits, nuts and sugar for making those Christmas cakes and puddings.

Prayer Breakfasts

It was good to see so many at our October prayer breakfast, enjoying the opportunity to meet up again. Our next one is at 8:30am on Saturday 13th November and I look forward to you joining us for croissants, tea, coffee, prayer and fellowship.

Bookshop.org

We are now a member of bookshop.org. This means you can order your books online and choose us as your bookshop and we will get a small percentage of the sales cost. The benefit of bookshop.org is that they are also able to supply secular books that we may not be able to. Always drop us an email if you are looking for a Christian book, we can often get them in as quickly and we won’t charge you postage.

Price Increase

You will probably already be aware of some of the pressures on wholesalers and the already increasing prices in many areas. Due to this, and the VAT increase that comes in on 1st October, we have taken the decision to increase many of our prices. We have not increased our prices for 4 years so we are hoping you will be understanding and continue to be loyal to us.

AGM

Thank you to all those of you who came to our AGM – it was good to see so many of you present and it was also an opportunity to thank our volunteers.

We also gave a public thank you to two former board members, John Wilson and Peter Greenhalgh, for all their service to Cornerstone over many years.

We heard that we finished the last financial year in a healthy financial position, thanks to grants, furlough money and a rent holiday when we were closed due to lockdown.

Unfortunately, we have lost a number of volunteers and we do need to recruit more – a list of tasks for which volunteers are needed will be sent out to all churches soon.