Bromham Benefice:
Bromham, Oakley and Stagsden Churches Welcome You

Welcome to Bromham Benefice website!

The Benefice is made up of three rural parishes to the west of Bedford – Bromham, Oakley and Stagsden. Our three beautiful and ancient churches have been part of their communities for hundreds of years, and continue to provide a focus for Christian worship, growth and outreach.

We would love to welcome you to any of our services or events, so do come and get to know us; and please get in touch if you need more information about anything on this website, or you have a specific question.

If you wish to visit one of our churches outside service times please contact the relevant churchwarden or our Administrator who can arrange access (all churches are kept locked), please see our Who’s Who page for contact details.

Services in the next two weeks

We welcome people from all our villages to each service: we join together as one congregation, travelling to worship in different church buildings. Our 10.30am service is live-streamed most Sundays via Zoom. Visit the Services page for more information about services in church and also for the Zoom link and phone numbers.

Weekly on a Monday
9.00am Morning Prayer via Zoom only

Sunday 29th March
10.30am Palm Sunday Service with donkey procession- St Leonard’s Stagsden to process meet at 10.10am in the Stagsden Village Hall Car Park

Monday 30th March
7.00pm Evening Service- St Mary’s Oakley

Tuesday 31st March
11.30am Holy Communion followed by lunch- St Owen’s Fellowship Room

Maundy Thursday 2nd April
6.30pm Maundy Thursday Meal and Holy Communion- St Owen’s Bromham
8-10pm The Watch- St Owen’s and St Mary’s

Good Friday 3rd April
10.00am- 12noon Good Friday Children’s Crafts- St Owen’s Bromham
2.00pm Good Friday Service- St Owen’s Bromham
2.00pm Good Friday Communion Service- St Mary’s Oakley

Easter Sunday 5th April
9.00am Holy Communion- St Leonard’s Stagsden
10.30am All Age Easter Sunday Service with Communion and Easter egg hunt- St Owen’s Bromham*
12noon- 4.00pm St Owen’s open for viewing of Easter flowers and light refreshments
10.30am All Age Easter Sunday Service with Communion and Easter egg hunt- St Mary’s Oakley
3.00pm Open Church with Children’s activities- St Leonard’s Stagsden

*these services are live streamed

Annual Parochial Church Meetings

The Annual Parochial Church Meeting for 2026 in each of our churches will be held as follows:
St Leonard’s Stagsden Mon 20th April 5pm
St Owen’s Bromham Sunday 17th May 12noon
St Mary’s Oakley Wednesday 20th May 7pm
The Electoral Rolls will be revised before then, and the Trustees’ reports will be distributed to everyone on the Electoral Roll of that church. Please see the ‘Current Communications’ box for the formal notices of the meetings and ER revisions.

Safeguarding

We take the care and well-being of all our members very seriously. Our benefice safeguarding co-ordinator is Judith Denyer and she can be reached on safeguarding@bromhambenefice.org or 07981 928522.

Read our Benefice Safeguarding statement.

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