Whilst Ruddington’s wide variety of festive celebrations among traders and other village organisations in the run up to Christmas are hard to beat, it’s always good to remember the significance of this special period from a religious point of view. That’s what our three very active Christian churches in Ruddington are inviting us to do in the coming days, and here are their main Christmas services for 2023: Sunday 17th December Nativity Sunday Service @ 10.30am | Ruddington Baptist Church in St Peter’s Rooms – an all-age, interactive retelling of the…
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One of Ruddington’s best known community figures has revealed he’ll soon be off to pastures new. In July 2014, at the age of just 22, Sam Hackett become the youngest ordained Baptist Minister in England and Wales. He was inducted as the Minister of Ruddington Baptist Church on September 13th 2014. Now, almost nine years later, Sam has decided it’s time for a fresh challenge. “It’s with a mixture of sadness, joy and excitement that I announce that I will be leaving Ruddington Baptist Church this summer to take on…
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After an especially busy build-up to the festive celebrations in our village this year, now that COVID-19 restrictions are well behind us, Christmas Day 2022 is finally here… with those ‘Twelve Days of Christmas’ only just beginning. The team at RUDDINGTON.info would like to take this opportunity to wish all our readers, contributors and valued village advertisers the full compliments of the season. Without you, our truly local community website would not exist, so we thank you for your continuing support. We’d also like to share this slideshow of some…
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Christmas is a joyful celebration to bring everyone together and Ruddington’s churches welcome you. You’ll find St Peter’s on Church Street and the Ruddington Baptist Church in St. Peter’s Rooms. Christmas Day – Sunday 25th December Chocolate Nativity @10.00am | St Peter’s Church Christmas Service @ 10.00am | Ruddington Baptist Church Disclaimer: RUDDINGTON.info publish all diary events in good faith and can’t be held responsible for any changes or cancellations of the activity. We run our calendar as a community service and details were correct at the time we promoted them,…
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Christmas is a joyful celebration to bring everyone together and Ruddington’s churches welcome you. You’ll find St Peter’s on Church Street and the Ruddington Baptist Church in St. Peter’s Rooms. Christmas Eve – Saturday 24th December Christingle Service @ 4pm and @ 6pm | St Peter’s Church Midnight Communion @ 11.00pm | St Peter’s Church Christmas Day – Sunday 25th December Chocolate Nativity @10.00am | St Peter’s Church Christmas Service @ 10.00am | Ruddington Baptist Church Disclaimer: RUDDINGTON.info publish all diary events in good faith and can’t be held responsible for any…
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Christmas is a joyful celebration to bring everyone together and Ruddington’s churches welcome you. You’ll find St Peter’s on Church Street and the Ruddington Baptist Church in St. Peter’s Rooms. Here are some key dates: Sunday 18th December Nativity Sunday Service @ 10.30am | Baptist Church Carol Concert @ 7pm | St Peter’s Church Christmas Eve Saturday 24th December Christingle Service @ 10.00am | St Peter’s Church Midnight Communion @ 11.00pm | St Peter’s Church Christmas Day Sunday 25th December Chocolate Nativity @10.00am | St Peter’s Church Christmas Service @ 10.00am | Baptist Church…
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After the ‘lockdown’ Christmas of 2020, and the rather restrained festive season of 2021, Ruddington’s celebrations in 2022 look as if they might just be the biggest and best ever! That’s certainly the case for this weekend’s ‘Ruddington Christmas Market’ (on Saturday December 3rd) which, as previously reported, will comprise over a hundred indoor and outdoor stalls of food, drink and gifts, two covered pop-up bars and stages of live music, and children’s activities. Now organised by Ruddington Village Community Partnership (RVCP) it will take place along both High Street and Church Street (road closures…
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Visitors to Ruddington village centre are being treated to an array of amazing, knitted creations this Christmas after an unexpected ‘yarn bomb’ added a new dimension to our more conventional festive decorations. With the usual traders’ Christmas trees and St Peter’s Rooms light installation already in place, yesterday (December 3rd) a group calling itself ‘Ruddington Yarn Ninjas’ swept through Church Street with hundreds of additional, seasonal creations to bring some festive colour for yuletide shoppers and sightseers. These include nine reindeer, Santa Claus, a snowman, dozens of twirlers, over 300 pom-poms,…
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As December begins, for most of us the festive season ahead is likely to be a rather different affair to the one we’d normally be able to enjoy. Even if Ruddington drops from Tier 3 to Tier 2 in mid-December, followed by the Government’s promised five days of even looser COVID-19 restrictions over Christmas, the threat of Coronavirus will still be looming large over everything we do. However, a number of ‘low risk’ activities and initiatives are taking place this month in our village to try to get Ruddingtonians into…
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