Well done to the young people of TRAX, FNT and Piepline who baked cakes and sold them at the Abbey last Sunday to raise money for the Haiti Earthquake appeal. £267 was raised and it will be banked tomorrow morning in the DEC’s bank account.
Reports of the earthquake in Haiti this week have left us all with the deeply shocking news that tens of thousands may be dead and approximately 3 million lives affected. As international relief teams continue to arrive in Port-au-Prince it’s good to remember that we can …

Although I went to a very traditional Church of England school, I never grew up with faith and actively rejected it even as an adult when I got married and had children.
I always thought it wasn’t ‘cool’ to be a Christian, and that my friends getting up to no good were the cool ones. But the journey from there to me getting in the pool and being baptised was a slow and very gradual one. There was not one ‘Road to Damascus’ moment, but many, many little things that brought …

The brochure for the fourth Malmesbury Abbey Holy Week Festival is now available. You can download it here or e-mail for it to be posted to you.
The festival opens on Friday 26th March 2010 at 7.30pm and runs through to Easter Day. As last year, our festival will open with a brand new Stations of the Cross art exhibition created by A-level students at Malmesbury School followed by a glass of wine and an hour and a half of live, clean, comedy with Andy Kind and Paul Kerensa. On the …

On Easter Day 2010 at our 6.30pm Choral Evensong Malmesbury Abbey choir will give the first performance of a new setting of the Preces & Responses by Ian Stephens. Ian has had his compositions performed by the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra and the BBC Singers and has been commissioned to write the work by Malmesbury Abbey to mark the 1000th anniversary of the monk Eilmer’s flight from the Abbey roof. One of Ian’s earlier works ‘Through the affrighted air’ was a chamber work that portrayed Eilmer’s flight…and landing. You can …

A brand new Christmas play for the whole family…and other animals – Saturday December 19th in the Abbey
a new play by Nigel Forde
directed by Paul Burbridge
designed by Anna Morris
music by Emma Leaman-Brown
with John Holden-White and Raewyn Lippert

Somewhere between the tinsel and the cabbage leaves, the crackers and the peelings of the parsnips, comes the remarkable story of Nearly the Goat.
What on earth is his master to make of that eerie singing in the sky? Or a starlit search for a tiny stable while the sat-nav’s on the blink? To …

Henry made his international debut in 1995, becoming the youngest player to represent Zimbabwe. A right arm fast bowler, he helped Zimbabwe to its first ever Test victory and was the first black cricketer to play for Zimbabwe.
Henry achieved international recognition (along with team mate Andy Flower) in 2003 by wearing a black armband in a Cricket World Cup match to protest against the policies of Zim-babwe’s government, led by Robert Mugabe. This act led to a warrant issued in Zimbabwe for Henry’s arrest on charges of treason (which carries …