to our vibrant Christian community
including our on-line streamed worship Church without walls
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St Peter’s is open for anyone to come in to look around, meditate or pray
Monday to Friday from 10 am - 3pm Saturday 10 - 4pm Sunday 12 noon - 4 pm.
From Holbrook Magazine February 2025
We host a variety of events from rock and folk concerts
through to outdoor activities and installations
Please browse this website to find out more about us -
you can view the Church diary and find out everything that is going on -
just go to the Parish Diary page
We are a FAIRTRADE Community and we recycle 
Sunday 8th June
Pentecost
St Peter's 10.00 am Holy Communion & Sunday Club
St Mark's 10.00 am All Age Family Worship
St Swithun's 11.00 am Morning Worship
The Church's Special Prayer for this week
Holy Spirit, sent by the Father,
ignite in us your holy fire;
strengthen your children with the gift of faith,
revive your Church with the breath of love,
and renew the face of the earth,
through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Amen.
Church Without Walls
On-line streamed (and on-demand) worship
A range of prayer and worship resources can be found on the Church of England website www.churchofengland.org
You can also find other local, online services at derby.anglican.org/streams
Ways to keep in touch
'Three in One' is the Parish magazine
'Three In One' is our monthly parish magazine. It contains useful information about services and events in our three churches and in the wider community, a letter from one of our church leaders, a prayer diary and sometimes a children's page.
If you would like to receive a paper copy regularly or have an item or advert included in a future publication, please contact the Parish Office.
Subscribe to our weekly email newsletter ENFOLD
Up to the minute information and pictures can be found on our Facebook page
If you would like to give to the work of the Parish, you can do so via Paypal 
Advert for Priest-in-Charge of the benefice of Belper St Peter
Full time permanent stipendiary role
Belper is a lively, thriving market town on the edge of a UNESCO World Heritage Site eight miles from the City of Derby.
The three churches in the parish are seeking an enthusiastic, pastorally hearted, missional priest to work with them to:
· continue to grow the churches, reaching out to more people and making new disciplescontinue to grow the churches, reaching out to more people and making new disciples
· nurture a rich variety of church experience and worship tradition
· review and refresh the mechanisms and provision that support church members in deepening their faith
· develop the ministry, mission and community partnerships already in place, and initiate new initiatives and partnerships in response to identified needs and missional opportunities
· invest in work with children and young people. Actively recruiting and training volunteers to further develop strong relationships with schools and children/youth organisations, including exploring the possibility of forming a Growing Faith Hub in Belper, maintaining and further developing strong relationships with schools, children and youth organisations
· explore with St John’s C of E School the possibility of forming a new worshipping community
· support St Swithun’s in becoming sustainable into the future
· consider how St Peter’s can support other churches in environmental awareness and action.
You would be supported by a large and strong team of staff, lay and ordained volunteers in churches with healthy finances and well-resourced and maintained buildings. The church members are ready to pledge their support to you and commit themselves to looking after your well-being, ensuring you do not take on unrealistic levels of work.
The Diocese of Derby is committed to safeguarding. This post is subject to an enhanced DBS check. For information on safeguarding, recruitment checks and how we process your data, visit https://bit.ly/DODSaferRecruitment
Enquiries to: Archdeacon of Derbyshire Peak and Dales, nicky.fenton@derby.anglican.org
For further information and to apply, please use the links below:
Letter from the Bishop of Derby
Closing date: Noon, Friday 20th June 2025
Interview dates: Tuesday 10th July 2025
Churches Count on Nature
June is the month of Churches Count on Nature which runs from Saturday June 7th until Sunday the 15th. People are encouraged to discover the wildlife in their local churchyard and record the species found, including plants, flowers, insects, birds etc. We have recording forms available in St Peter’s but sightings can be written on any piece of paper and left in a box outside the church door or a box at the back of the main church in a basket on the table in front of our Eco Display.
Details of what you have seen can also be emailed to communitygardenbelper@gmail.com.
If you are not sure of a name please take a photo and ask by email, on Facebook www.facebook.com/StPetersCommunityGarden/ , in person or look at one of the books in our Eco Library available at the back of the church.
Anne Clark 07968 443132
Postponed due to illness
Postponed due to illness
We will be putting up items for Woollen Woods in St Peter’s churchyard from June 14th. Everyone is very welcome to join in with the fun, to make and display. It gives a lot of pleasure to people who walk around our lovely churchyard. People and groups are very welcome to decorate a tree with their chosen theme or to make one piece which can be added along with others to a display. There will be rope around a few trees which things can be added to. The Woollen Woods will remain up until June 30th as the last weekend in June is Belper Open Gardens and the churchyard will be on the map of places for visitors to look round. Please contact Anne Clark if you would like more information 07968 443132.
We now meet as a regular group in St Peter’s West End on the first Thursday of the month from 1-3pm to prepare for Woollen Woods and everyone is welcome to come along. The next meet is June 5th. You can bring your own piece to work on or join in with something we provide.
We have a huge range of activities for children and young people. Go here for a special set of pages.
Coffee Mornings at St Peter’s 
10.30 am - 12 pm, 1st Tuesday of the month Come along and meet friends old and new.
There will be the usual book and jigsaw swap.
Board Games Afternoons at St Peter’s 2nd Monday monthly
from 2 pm.
Come along and learn how to play Quirkle, play Scrabble or bring along your favourite game.
Tea and biscuits provided.It’ll be fun, see you there!
Hope for Belper manages the local Food and Community Hub
Donations may be given at St Peter's Church, St Mark's Church,
Morrisons or one of the three Co-Ops.
Our churches continue to have collection points for The Hub food bank: thank you
Please make donations suitable for the Food Bank: Cereal, Tinned potatoes/packet mash, Tinned sweetcorn/carrots, Coffee, Hot dogs, Tinned meat and chicken, eg mince, Curries, Meatballs, Tinned chilli/curry, Tinned fruit, Tinned fish,
Sponge puddings and custard, Rice pudding, Tea and coffee, UHT milk,
Washing liquid for clothes and dishes, Toilet rolls – 2 roll packs, Sanitary items, Toiletries – single toothbrushes, toothpaste, shampoo, shower gel, deodorant, Treats – biscuits, chocolate, sweets.
The Hub also need help with the finance to buy the fresh items that go into each box (such as bread and milk). So you might like to make a donation (even better, if you can, Gift Aid it) to Hope for Belper. There are envelopes in each church.
If you are able to add to your shopping basket to support us you will find occasional updates on our Facebook page as to which items are most useful or that are we are short of – just click on the link http://facebook.com/hopeforbelper/
For an interesting report full of pictures about everything that goes on in the Parish please call in to any of the churches and pick up a copy to find out all about us, or click here.