Membership Subscriptions, Direct Debit and Gift Aid

Membership Subscriptions

Many of our members now pay their subscriptions by Direct Debit, as it saves a good deal of administration.

Subscriptions are collected annually, on 31st January. If you are able to subscribe by Direct Debit, please click on the link and run off a Direct Debit Mandate. Instructions are included on the mandate form. Please send the mandate form to our Direct Debit organiser, Barbara Packer by 10th January. Alternatively Barbara can send you a paper mandate, if this is easier for you.

GIFT AID

If you are able to Gift Aid your subscription, the Diocesan Mothers’ Union will be able to claim Gift Aid on the whole amount for local work. The Gift Aid form is here and should also be returned to Barbara.

Did you know we have a page on the Mothers’ Union website. You can donate to Newcastle Mothers’ Union directly here

https://www.mothersunion.org/diocese/newcastle

You can also donate to Mothers’ Union every time you sho at Amazon by using the following link.

https://smile.amazon.co.uk/gp/chpf/homepage?orig=/

Types of Membership

Our members are not all mothers, or even all women. Single, married, parents, grandparents, or young adults just beginning to express their social conscience. For all 4 million members, what Mothers' Union provides is a network through which they can serve Christ in their own community - through prayer, financial support and actively working at the grassroots level in programmes that meet local needs. We lobby local and national governments on issues affecting family life and campaign to challenge legislation that neglects the vulnerable and marginalised. We are also represented at the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women.

Branch Membership See Branches

Members are part of a group attached to a parish who meet together usually once a month for fellowship, worship and a talk. They also engage in projects and join in deanery and diocesan events. See the branches in Newcastle Diocese

Diocesan Membership See More

Diocesan Membership is for those who, for a variety of reasons, do not want to be a member of a branch, or cannot because there is no local branch. Each member has a contact that sends them The Journal (the diocesan magazine), and other publications, together with a letter informing them of local and diocesan events to which they are invited. Some diocesan members take part in projects with local groups or within their area and some hold office or participate in an area of work in which they are particularly interested. Some simply use their membership as a way of supporting the Mothers’ Union. See Diocesan Members Day

Internet branches See More

Newcastle MU runs an Internet Branche for those who prefer to meet on-line, The First Internet Branch is a discussion/project based group online that was started in November 2020. It runs a grant funded project providing everything from handbags to hairpins for families arriving at Harbour D.A.Refuge with nothing. Contact Sylvia Hickey

Indoor Members See More

This type of membership is for those who are not able to participate in other types of membership, but still wish to retain their interest in the Mothers’ Union. They each have a correspondent to keep them informed about the current MU. These members form a powerhouse of prayer for the society.

Interested in being a member?

Enquiries about becoming a member of Newcastle Mothers' Union can be made in the first instance by emailing our President, Margy Tasker-Brown

Useful to know facts about membership

We are mainly WOMEN but MEN also belong.

We may be MARRIED but some of us are SINGLE or DIVORCED.

We are often MOTHERS but some of us do not have children.

We are usually MEMBERS of the CHURCH of ENGLAND but not always, some of us attend other Churches.

We do not have an AGE limit, young and old, all are welcome.

We usually meet every month, but some meet via the INTERNET.

We support M.U. projects at home and abroad where we also educate women, empowering them to provide for their families.

Some of us are carers, or working, or do not have a local branch, so we become DIOCESAN MEMBERS.

We support our scheme for HOLIDAYS FOR THE DISADVANTAGED.

We supply goods and support for WOMENS REFUGES and also to REFUGEES.

We care for you, your family and your community. We campaign tirelessly to protect children in our society.

We support our LOCAL CLERGY and CHURCHES.

We base all that we do on PRAYER which is a very important part of our lives.

(Submitted by Sylvia Hickey)

All members receive CONNECTED (The Mothers Union Magazine) and the PRAYER DIARY through the post from Mary Sumner House; also the MU Diocesan JOURNAL and NEWSLETTERS

Indoor members (IMPC)

Indoor members are members who for whatever reason cannot get to a branch meeting

See the History of the Indoor Member Prayer Circle here

Indoor Members Prayer Circle in Newcastle Diocese

New IMPC members are sent a welcome letter and a bookmark which is made by Barbara Bailes a local MU member.

They receive a birthday card from the Diocesan President and any member over 90 also receives a card from Mary Sumner House.

They get a letter at Easter and a small gift with a Christmas card (also made by Barbara Bailes).

Branch leaders receive regular news and prayers which they pass on to members.

All the names of the Indoor Members are in a book which is carried at special services so that they are included.

Click on the date to download the IMPC Reflections for that month.

2026

February Reflections

Branches

Branches and Branch meeting times

Bedlington Deanery

Blyth St Cuthbert 1st Mon @ 2.15pm & 3rd Wed @ 7.15pm

Choppington St Paul 2nd Tues @ 2pm

Corbridge & Hexham Deanery

Haltwhistle, Holy Cross 2nd Tues @ 2.15pm

Haydon Bridge w Bellingham &Henshaw 4th Wed @ 2. 30pm

Hexham Abbey 1st Mon @ 2pm

Ovingham 4th Wed @ 1.30pm

Wylam 1st Wed @ 10.00am

Newcastle Central & East Deanery

First Internet Branch 2nd Friday at 7.30pm via zoom

Gosforth All Saints 2nd Mon @ 2pm

Heaton St Francis 3rd Thurs @ 7.30pm

Heaton St Gabriel 2nd Thurs @ 2pm

Longbenton St Barts 3rd Tuesday @ 1.30 pm

Wideopen St Columba 2nd Thurs @ 2pm

Newcastle West Deanery

Benwell 1st Thurs @ 7.45pm

Chapel House, Holy Nativity Last Mon @ 2pm

Fenham Holy Cross 1st Mon @ 2pm

Ponteland variable in 4th week

Whorlton St John 1st Wed @ 2pm

Northern Deaneries

Alnwick 2nd Wednesday @ 2pm

Amble 3rd Monday @ 10-30am

Ashington Holy Sepulchre Last Wed @ 7pm

Morpeth 2nd Mon @ 2pm

Seaton Hirst 4th Mon 2pm

Upper Coquetdale 3rd Monday @ 2.15pm

Tynemouth Deanery

Cullercoats St George Last Mon @ 2pm

Earsdon & Backworth 3rd Wed @ 1.45pm

Monkseaton St Mary 3rd Tues @ 2pm

Monkseaton St Peter 2nd Monday and variable evenings

North Shields Christ Church 1st & 3rd Tues @ 2.15pm

Tynemouth Holy Saviour 1st Mon @ 2pm

Wallsend St Luke 2nd Mon @ 2pm

Internet Branch

First Internet Branch - contact Sylvia Hickey

For 2023 the First Internet branch will now meet on-line the last Tuesday of the month

The First Internet Branch is so named because it is the first M.U. on-line branch. We opened on Zoom in November 2020 with the official “Opening a Branch” service led by our Diocesan President who enrolled the members. There are, as then, 12 of us. We are a discussion/project based branch presently working on a grant funded project with a local Domestic Abuse Refuge. We meet monthly on line but twice a year we meet in person for a social meal out together. Half our members are working mums and as of May 1st 2023 the average age of our branch members was 62.

The First Internet Branch ran a Quiz Night and raised £252, additional funds for our work with Harbour Refuge.
		They have bought a bike shed to accommodate childrens` bicycles given to Harbour Refuge but for which they had no storage facilities.
The £200 was made up mainly from the sale of items made from fabric given to the branch by Lynne Tembey, gathered from her travels when Worldwide President. Huge thanks from the branch and Harbour Refuge to Lynne for her generosiity and also to the helpers who made scarves, cushion covers and tote style bags etc.
Sylvia Hickey presented our Worldwide President, Kathleen with a bag made from the same material

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