How to use this web site.

We would very much appreciate your feedback and contributions to this site, which was set up in response to a clearly perceived need to improve communication within the parish and so to build up the sense of community that already exists.

A recent parish questionnaire showed that about 60% of parishioners have access to the Internet, either at home or at work, so a web site seemed to be a positive step in addressing the problem. But of course the remaining 40% must not be left out! There are also plans to improve the weekly bulletin and we are looking for ideas from parishioners who have media and publication skills.

Contributing to the web site

This site is by no means complete, and there are many more groups and organisations in the parish than are listed here. Also where a group is listed here, the information has been taken from brochures in the church, and may need updating. So if your group is listed here but you feel that the information is incomplete or out of date, or if your group is not yet included, please send any material by email to . If email isn't possible, printed material can be sent to "Web Site Editor" at the presbytery. However, when submitting material for the web site there are one or two points to bear in mind:

Copyright: We don't want to violate anybody's copyright, so if the material you are submitting was not written by yourself we need written permission from the original author or copyright owner before their material can be included.

Personal Information: The Data Protection Act means that we cannot include details of people's names, addresses, or phone numbers unless they have given consent, normally in writing. Where people shown in pictures are identified in the accompanying text, again, permission is needed. This is why, for example, the readers' rota just shows initials instead of full names.

Email addresses: Email addresses shown on web sites can be detected by various automatic 'crawlers' which continually search web sites. Any addresses found in this way run the risk of being the targets of unsolicited 'junk' mail, or 'spam', some of which can be obscene or offensive. For this reason some email addresses are shown in a different form on this web site. For example, "'example' at 'shmi.info'" means that the email address is actually "example@shmi.info". However if you would like an email address for a parish group or organisation it is possible to generate an "@shmi.info" address in such a way that all email sent to it will be automatically redirected to another 'real' address which is not detectable on the web site. If there were problems with unsolicited mail, the shmi.info address could be modified or disabled without affecting the 'real' address to which it points. If you would like to use this facility, please contact .

Over to you!

Please feel free to contribute. If you don't represent a parish group you may still have some need or service to communicate with the rest of the parish via the 'Sharing' page in the News section. Also comments about the website would be welcome.