Community Voluntary Groups

Community Volunteering Options. This is not meant to be a complete list. A useful source of voluntary group information is the library. The groups below are ones that we have people involved in who are part of the Running the Race Network. If there are community groups that you are involved in that are not mentioned in the list below, then please do email me. If the details or description of a group are wrong, please contact Steven Lee. If you are interested in finding out more about a group, do get in touch with the contacts.

Community Groups	Contact
Streetlight Wimborne’s best skate park, cafe and soft play centre. Run by Christians as an outreach to the community.	Eddie Curry Debbie Tudor Thomas Paula Jones
Just Jigsaws A social group: an enjoyment of compiling jigsaws. A chat, drink and a piece of cake! Every Wednesday 230pm-430pm Wimborne Library	Jenny Courtenay Ruth Atkins
DIY Tool Lending	Terry Howell
Community Garden A place for the community to come together, share skills and grow food. Growing fresh produce for the Beaucroft cafe and local food banks.	Philippa Browne Steven Lee
Reading Buddy – listening to children read at St John’s First School	Les Golding Steven Lee
Shaftesbury Millie College, near Poole, is a 16-25+ education setting helping young people with a range of learning and physical disabilities.	Les Golding
Cruse Bereavement Services offers support, advice, and information to those who are bereaved.	Gillian Mannouch
Dial a Ride aims to meet the transport needs of people who due to age, illness, low income or disability cannot easily use public transport and do not have access to any other suitable means of transport. Admin and Driver volunteers	Ruth Atkin Pete Carr
Academy Trust (Initio Schools covering many local schools)	Debbie Fleming
Geology Guided Walks	John Scott
Minster Guiding - making people welcome and helping them to discover some of the history of the Minster	Steven Lee
Ride and Stride – annual cycling (walking) event to raise money for church repairs	Keith Loveless
Apple Pressing – annual event part of Green Week	David & Jean Morgan
Easter Experience – helping local primary school children understand Easter	Steven Lee
Open the Book – regular Wednesday group bringing Bible Stories to life for Wimborne First School	Sally Lee
Harleston House is a Home for Seniors. A group from St John’s visits to take a service for Christmas, Easter, Pentecost and Harvest. In the last two years we have been joined by some of the schoolchildren and teachers from St. John’s First School.	Ruth Hay

Planning your Visit

Welcome to St John's Church!

We are so delighted that you have found our website. We are a Church family in Wimborne for anyone living, working or studying around this area. Whoever you are, whatever your age, whether you’re an experienced Christian or not, we would love you to join us.

From an intrigued onlooker to the committed follower we are keen that everyone should grow in relationship with God through knowing Jesus. To help us do that our emphasis is on hearing God speak to us by his Holy Spirit through his word, the Bible. Each of us knows that we only grow in a relationship with someone and get to know them when we spend time listening to them and responding and reacting to what they say. So the focus of St John’s is on listening to God’s word, talking to him in prayer and taking up all that he says.

The Church family here at St John’s longs to help anyone who wants to investigate the life of Jesus. On this site you will find people, meetings, talks and events shaped to help you take another step forward in finding out more about God and his love for us in Jesus, and to help you get linked into the church family life.

We hope to have the opportunity to meet you personally in the very near future and that you will quickly feel at home at St John’s.

Stuart Hull and Nigel Day (Churchwardens)
Please note that we are currently seeking a new Vicar, following the retirement of Revd Peter Breckwoldt in July 2025