The Family Café runs most Friday evenings, providing a hot meal for those who need it and a space for families and children to come together. The Café runs on the first, second and third Fridays of the month and is closed on the fourth and fifth. Keep an eye on Facebook for up-to-date information and notice of closure.

Doors open from 4pm with activities for children, and food is served from 5pm. All are welcome, with priority given to those attending with young children.

We have a professional catering chef supervising the kitchen, and are looking for volunteers to help prepare, serve and clear on a Friday afternoon, as well as to collect food from local supermarkets during the week. Please contact us if you are able to help.

Thank you to those who have shown support for this project, including West Suffolk Council (through the Community Chest and UK Shared Prosperity Fund), Haverhill Town Council, International Flavours and Fragances, Hughes and many individuals. If you are able to support the work of the Family Café with a donation, your support would be appreciated.

Both of our churches at Haverhill and Withersfield hold a BRONZE award from the Eco Church project at A Rocha UK, which helps us to understand our responsibility to care for God's creation and the ways in which can do that better as a church community.

This includes a range of activities, including reducing our environmental impact as churches, using the resources we have available to promote the local ecology, and encourage people to take responsibility in their own lives for their stewardship of God's gifts.

So, for example, we have:

• Appointed an interim eco-church officer to help us think through the implications of the eco-church survey and share the results more widely.
• Established a wildflower area at Withersfield, which will allow a greater diversity of flowers and plants to grow, which will encourage other insect and bird life and enrich the soil.
• Stopped using floral foam in our flower arrangements at Haverhill, and trying to use locally grown or sourced flowers where possible.
• Been working with local organisations to promote initiatives around energy saving, caring for wildlife, and other environmental initiatives.
• Continued to pray for our link diocese of Kagera in Tanzania, and particularly for their environmental sustainability.

Your interim eco-church officer for summer 2025 is Charlotte Kalinsky, who is helping us to think about our care for God's creation in the benefice.

The rosary is a way of reflecting on the life and ministry of Jesus Christ, from the perspective of Mary his mother. It is a repetitive, meditative form of prayer. You are welcome to bring your own rosary or borrow/take one from church. We will look at different sets of mysteries each month until we have covered them all.

Bubble Church is a Sunday church service especially for babies, toddlers and young families. It's a puppet-packed, Jesus-centred, coffee-and-food fuelled, 30-minute kids and families adventure.

Here's the deal: you turn up to St Mary's Church, on Market Square in Haverhill, 10 minutes before it starts for refreshments, before being guided to a family 'bubble'. You and your little ones will share in 30 minutes of song, story, puppet and prayer.

The service runs at 11.30am on the first Sunday of every month, with the very first one coming on Sunday 4th October 2026.

Book here to let us know you're coming!

Thank you for your interest in Bubble Church. We look forward to seeing you next time!

Each month, we release a series of videos looking at a particular book, passage or theme from the bible. You are encouraged to work through these in your own time, or in a small group, and make your own notes based on your learning. At the end of the month, we gather to talk about the passage and what we have learned from our studies.