St. Michael and All Angels Sandhurst

Welcome to the Website of St Michael and All Angels Church, Sandhurst, Berkshire

Welcome

St Michael’s is a community of people who worship God together, and who want to know God better and serve him better in our daily lives. We love to welcome people, whether you're looking for a church to worship in, would like to explore the Christian faith or are interested in getting married or having a child christened, or have recently lost a loved one.
Whoever you are, we hope you'll find what you are looking for on this site, so we can help you practically, spiritually or however we can! Feel free to e-mail or phone us - see our Contact page.

Farewell From John Castle

The final Blog from Rev John Castle written on the eve of taking up his new position in Herttfordshire is here.

Supporting us
To make a one-off donation, please use the Donate button, which will take you to our page on Givealittle, who administer donations securely for us. You can include GiftAid here if appropriate. Your money will go to support the regular work of our church and the maintenance of our buildings.
For information about giving regularly to St Michael's, please visit our Donations page.

DONATE

If you would like to donate to a particular fund, e.g. the Spire Project, or would like to learn about making a regular monthly contribution, please visit our Donations page.

The Spire Project
Our beautiful church building needs repair. The six bells are currently away being repaired, the wooden tiles (shingles) on the spire are being replaced, and the clock needs refurbishment of the face, and major repair of the mechanism if it is to tell the time again. An update on the clock can be found on page 8 of the September 2025 newsletter.

The total cost of the whole Spire Project is around £250,000, and only a small proportion of this has yet been received in grants. We are hoping that local people and business will be willing to make some significant donations to enable our Spire, bells and clock to be returned to their former glory.

For more information, and how you can donate to this appeal, please visit our WinSpire 2024 page.

See also the article on Page 8 of the April 2026 Newsletter.

Visiting the Church

The church is usually open for visiting and private prayer on weekdays and weekends (except during Sunday morning services), and you are welcome to light a candle as an act of prayer. This depends upon the availability of volunteers to open and lock it, but you can also phone or e-mail the office to arrange for the church to be open when you want to visit. (See contact page.)

Highlights

The June 2026 Newsletter is here.

June 2026 Services are here.

Missed a service, or want to remind yourself of the sermon? In most cases the text of the sermon is available on the Services pages; select the month using the link above or in the main menu, then scroll down to the date you want.
Our Parish Communion Service, and some others, are live-streamed on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/StMichaelsSandhurst and also on YouTube
https://youtube.com/channel/UC4vYB32hY4ana2nl8NeM-lA.
The Facebook post can also be viewed immediately after the event; the Youtube video takes a few hours to be available after the service has finished.

Please Pray For . . .

Compassion, our chosen charity for June.
See the June Newsletter page 2 for details. See here for details of this and other charities we are currently supporting.

Please pray for the process of finding a new Rector for St Michaels.

Leadership

The following article by Church Warden James Mason appears on the front page of the June 2026 Newsletter.

At a time when our country is painfully in need of leadership(!), it becomes all the more acute how important this is in any organization, big or small. In our own tiny part of the world we are awaiting a leader for our parish, but in the meantime we cannot sit idly by whilst the ship drifts on the tide!

We have many jobs to take care of in the absence of an incumbent and I am confident that we not wither or shy away from the challenge; indeed, our newly shining spire, soon-to-return bells, and gleaming new clock are a testament to what can be achieved when individuals take responsibility and poke their heads above the parapet!

From designing and managing to fundraising and organising, clearing up twigs to hosting meetings, we had a great team that chivvied and sweated to bring the project to its (almost imminent!) completion.

And so now I ask you; "Once more unto the breach dear friends! Once more"

How can YOU help us?

We are dearly in need of people to join our teams helping carry out the many and varied roles we must fulfil to ensure our parish thrives and blossoms in preparation for a new incumbent; from supporting our work in school services, school governorship, expertise in tech support and social media management, to youth outreach, musical accompaniment at Family Service and churchyard maintenance, there are numerous ways to help.

Is God asking you to come forward?

Do you have a talent or time to give? Just a few hours a month is all it takes. Please speak to myself, Nick Allen, any clergy or PCC member - our pictures are by the door of the church if you are not sure.

I look forward to hearing the roar of the Sandhurst lion . . . .

Facebook

Facebook Page
We use this public Facebook Page to make announcements about Services and Activities.
Anyone can read this page, but only designated Editors can post to it.
http://www.facebook.com/StMichaelsSandhurst

Facebook Group
This private Facebook Group is where members of the congregation can exchange thoughts and ideas.
You need to make a request to join this group, but any member of the group can then post to it.
http://www.facebook.com/groups/StMichaelsSandhurst

Safeguarding

Safeguarding information can be found here.

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