Description
- Notices: A Parish Bulletin Squarespace Website Template
- Notices is the printed weekly bulletin, put online: typed announcements, a corkboard of pinned notes, ruled tables and the odd biro scribble in the margin. It’s built for small parishes and chapels that want their website to feel like the sheet handed out at the door, local, warm, a little cluttered on purpose, and free of marketing language. Grainy black-and-white photography and paper textures keep the whole thing feeling photocopied rather than polished.
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Who it’s for
- Neighbourhood parishes and small Catholic or Anglican churches
- Chapels and chaplaincies with a weekly service sheet
- Volunteer-run congregations without a dedicated comms team
- Church halls and community groups that run on rotas and noticeboards
Pages included
- Home (This Week)
- Weekly bulletin sheet with issue number, date, the Sunday’s name, liturgical year and colour
- Sunday readings list
- Short letter from the parish priest
- Numbered weekly notices
- Mass and service times in a ruled table, with struck-through cancellations and handwritten margin notes
- “Please pray for” and anniversaries
- Corkboard of six pinned notes in mixed sizes and slight rotations: photo notes, lined index cards, handwritten notes and a fundraising progress bar
- This week’s rota at a glance
- Photo strip with captions
- Bulletin Archive
- Past issues shown as small bulletin sheets, most recent first
- Filter by month
- Each sheet shows the issue number, date, Sunday, Gospel reference and headline notices, and expands to show the rest
- The current issue is flagged and links back to this week’s sheet
- Rotas
- Week-by-week table for tea and coffee, flowers, and readers at each Sunday Mass
- Current week highlighted
- Handwritten swaps and corrections
- Notes on swapping weeks, flowers and reading duties
- Groups
- Cards for choir, prayer group, youth club, children’s liturgy, a craft group and a visiting group
- Each card lists when and where the group meets, a named contact and a short description
- Handwritten scrawls on selected cards
- Find Us
- Directions written as prose: on foot, by bus, parking, and step-free access
- Photo of the building with caption
- Address, parish office hours, phone and email
- Handwritten tip