The Parish of Swanmore

The Parish of Swanmore is in Hampshire, in the Diocese of Portsmouth. It is  roughly equidistant from Portsmouth, Winchester and Southampton. Adjoining parishes are Droxford to the north, Shedfield to the south, Soberton to the east and Bishop's Waltham to the west.

Children in Church

We try to make all children and their families feel welcome as an integral part of the Church. We are happy for youngsters to join in as they would naturally: we do not frown at a little extraneous noise from time to time! We offer bags of soft toys to small children who stay in church with their parents for whom there is also a crèche for the under threes.

Older children are warmly welcome into Sunday Club which meets in the adjoining Paterson Centre, concurrently with the main Sunday service in church at 10.00 am. There are groups for Scramblers (3-5), Climbers (5-7), Explorers (7-10) and Pathfinders (10-13). Teenagers may join our CYFA group that also meets on Sunday mornings. Young people also assist in church as acolytes and servers, as well as playing in the church music group and singing in the junior choir at family services.

Family services are our main act of worship on the first and third Sunday of each month. Sunday Club comes into church for the first part of the Family Communion on the First Sunday, and remains in church throughout the Third Sunday Family Service.