St Cross Men’s Group

MEN’S GROUP

We met on Monday 16 January to welcome Vey Roberts, a retired prison governor. He captured our attention with anecdotes of his experiences after leaving the army. He worked his way through the prison service to become a governor in various prisons including Winchester, Brixton and most unusual of all becoming the first male governor of Holloway, the women’s prison. His comments on dealing with the three Kray brothers and Myra Hindley were most interesting as were his comparisons between the attitudes of female and male prisoners. We discussed whether prison worked, the effect on families and institutionalisation- it was a very interesting evening.

Our next meeting on Monday 20 February will be with Jo Dash, a nurse from the Friarsgate practice who spends some of her leave nursing in remote villages in Nepal. As always we meet in the Brothers’ library at 8.00pm and all men (of all ages) of the parish and their friends are most welcome.

All men of the parish are most welcome to come and join us.

John Casson

St Cross Men’s Group

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The St Cross Fellowship is a local community group with close connections with the Parish of

St Faith.

PROGRAMME 2011 To 2012

20 Feb 2012

Nursing in Nepal

Mar 2012

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The group was formed after a discussion at a picnic after church in the Masters garden in Autumn 2006.

It is an informal group which meets on the third Monday of each month at 8.00pm in the Brothers library and is open to all men of the parish and their friends.

We normally do not have meetings at Easter or during the summer holidays,

in June there is a barbeque and December a Christmas meal.

So far most of our speakers have come from the parish and have spoken on a wide range of interesting topics including - is the church fulfilling its role; Japanese prisoner of war camps; life in a theological college; action in Afghanistan; the Navy and the future; church music; Chinese writing; exploring the Old Testament;

inside the EU and so on.

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