Click to download the application form here

Sing Aloud Rules

•  Entries are welcome from anyone within the UK.
•  Completed entry forms to be sent to All Saints Parish Centre or via the email address below.
• Copyright: It is the responsibility of the entrant to explore any copyright issues.
•  Entrants must ensure that they have the necessary rights for their entry.
•  Copyright for the entry will remain with the author but with permission for use within All Saints Parish Church, Wellington.
•  AI entries will not be considered.
• Text to be in English.
•  Entries to be submitted in manuscript form, ( digitally or handwritten) to accompany the application form.
•  Entries will not be returned.
• An audio recording can be used to support your entry, but is not compulsory.           
• The recording must be reflected in your entry.
•  Performance length to be no longer than 5 minutes.
• Judging guidelines will reflect: lyrics, melody, accessibility, theologically sound, inspiring, memorable.
•  The decision of the judges is final and no correspondence will be entered into.
• The competition will be launched on September 21st  2025.
•  Deadline for entries to be submitted will be January 31 2026.
•  There will be a finals concert where the top three in each category will be played and the winners announced.
•  The winners in each category will be invited to the final (attendance at own expense).

 Postal Applications to:

Sing Aloud Competition.
All Saints Parish Church Centre
Lychgate Walk, Wellington, Telford. TF1 3HA.

 Email applications to: hymncompetition@allsaints-wellington.org.uk

Download the application form here

 (For all applications, please make sure to send a completed entry form with your manuscript)

Further information

 Further information about the Mission and Ethos of All Saints Parish Church can be found on: https://www.facebook.com/allsaintswellington
https://instagram.com/allsaintswellington

 Categories:

A) New* words and tune
B) Existing **words and a new tune
C) Existing ** tune and new* words
D) Under 18 (at the time of entry) for any of the above categories.

*New not previously published or publically performed

**Existing – those in public domain

 The winners in each category will receive an award of £100

Category A winner will receive the Gauntlett Award

 Category B winner will receive the Corbett Award

 Category C winner will receive the John Taylor Award

 Under 18 for any of the above categories will receive the Bevington Award

Why name the Awards – Gauntlett, Corbett, Taylor and Bevington?

All Saints has links with innovation and creativity going back to Victorian times –

Henry Gauntlett

Henry was baptised at All Saints in July 1805 (his father being Curate). He became a noted organist and one of the nineteenth century’s leading British hymn writers. His credits include Irby (better known as the music to Once in Royal David’s City).

Gauntlett was reckoned to have written around 10,000 hymns. Gauntlett believed the singing of a large congregation also required an organ ‘to lead and support it’ and, working in collaboration with the renowned designer William Hill, he brought about the most radical changes to English church organ building for two centuries.

Samuel Corbett

Samuel Corbett was baptised at All Saints in … He was the son of a local ironmonger and lost his sight within just a few months of his birth. Corbett gained a Doctorate in Music from St John’s, Cambridge in 1879; the first blind person to do so. As Professor of Music at the Midland Institute for the Blind in Nottingham, he would later devise a system of musical notation akin to Braille.

In April 1879, he returned to Wellington to officially open the new Bevington church organ at All Saints. Corbett’s performance was reviewed within the pages of the parish magazine; in fact, so overcrowded was the event, the maestro was called back to give a second ‘grand recital’ two weeks later where his “wonderful control” caused the instrument to “reverberate with the thrilling representation of rolling thunder.”

Further Information about Henry Gauntlett and Samuel Corbett can be found from –

John Taylor

John and Peggy Taylor were active members of All Saints for many years and as Lay Readers they were both regularly on the preaching rota. John Loved the pipe organ at All Saints and was a good musician himself. He sang in the choir all through his life and would sometimes recount personal stories of being a young choirboy operating the hand pump supplying wind to the bellows. John also played the piano at home (by ear) mainly hymns.

Henry Bevington

All Saints Organ is an instrument of historical importance; one of only a few outside London built by ‘premier league’ organ builders, Bevington. The great, great, great grandson of Henry Bevington, Tony, Bevington, visited All Saints in September 2019 to view the organ and to give his blessing for the Bevington name to be used as an award for young people. Tony is keen for the organ to be a part of the future rather than seeing it as something of the past.

Further information about Bevington Organs can be found from the following publication,

Bevington & Sons: Victorian Organ Builders​ – The life and times of four generations of the Bevington family.
Told by Tony, Jill & Romana Bevington.  Preston House Publishing (2013) ISBN 978-0-9576655-0-7

Want to know more about the services we’ve got coming up this term? Have a look here.

Tickets are £10 and available via the QR code below or from the Parish Office, and will also be available on the door.

Find out more about Simeon here: https://www.simeonwood.co.uk/

Come and celebrate Christmas with us this year! Everyone is welcome.

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Sunday 4th December: 4pm Explore – Parish Centre

Sunday 10th December: 3.30pm All Saints presents Christmas Joy, a free Christmas concert for all the family.

Sunday 11th December: 4pm Mayor’s Civic Carol Service – All Saints

Sunday 18th December: 3.30pm Carols by Candlelight – St Catherines
6.30pm Carols by Candlelight – All Saints

Saturday 24th December – 3pm Crib Service – All Saints – come dressed as a nativity character
7.30 Christmas Eve communion – All Saints

Christmas Day – 9am Holy Communion – St Catherine’s
10.30 All Age Service with puppets – All Saints – children are invited to bring a present to show and tell
Followed by a short communion service

We had a productive and helpful PCC meeting this week.  I am grateful to the PCC for their flexibility in attending a meeting rearranged at short notice.

We were pleased to be able to co-opt Richard Walker to the PCC, and to appoint him as Chair of the Finance, Fabric and HR Action Group.   All four Action Groups now have Chairs, and are continuing to take a lead in the different areas of church life:

Mission and Discipleship: Sian Walker

Worship and Prayer: Lydia Farnham

Pastoral Care and Hospitality: Rose Kershaw

Finance, Fabric, and HR: Richard Walker

We reviewed the output of our PCC Away Day in June, and reflected with gratitude on the wide variety of ministries and activities that All Saints people are involved in.   There are a couple of areas in which we feel we could extend our mission and ministry, and we will be exploring these in the coming months.

We continued our discussions about the ongoing restrictions on our corporate worship since the pandemic began.  Our conversation was focused on how we share communion, and share the peace at Communion services.   There were a range of views on both of these within PCC, representing a similar range in the congregations.   We decided that:

• Those leading communion services are to ensure that “The Peace” is included in the service, not skated over.   Ways of sharing the peace without physical contact are to be modelled, and people are to be encouraged to be sensitive to each other in the way they share the peace.  
• We will have a trial at the Holy Communion service on 16^th October in which people will be offered the choice of receiving from the common cup, or by a dipped wafer.   The way in which this will work will be explained in the service.   Following this trial, a decision will be made as to how we share communion in future.

We had a positive discussion about Safeguarding, and its importance in the life of the church, in preparation for the development of a revised Safeguarding policy.   This will extend the offer of Safeguarding training, and make it a requirement for a number of different roles.   This is important, as it will equip more of us to be able to see signs of possible safeguarding issues, and to know what to do if we are concerned, or if someone makes a disclosure to us.  

If you have any questions or thoughts about the things that the PCC discusses please do get in touch with me, or any of the members of PCC.

Tim Carter

15/02/2022

Mozart. Exultate Jubilate. 

Soloist: Sarah Westwood, Soprano 

Mozart. Piano Concerto no. 21 

in C Major 

Chris Symons, Piano 

Mozart. Symphony no. 41 

The Jupiter. 

Saturday 1st October 2022

7.30-9.45pm

Tickets £10

Available from the Parish Church Office Lychgate Walk, Wellington Telford. TF1 3HA 

Phone 07729 362366 

Email: organproject@allsaints-wellington.org.uk 

Purchase online at: https://bit.ly/3yAVm1F 

Children free

Refreshments will be served.