The Forgiveness Café

31 October 2025

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Venue: St Laurence Church
Price: £10
Age guidance: None
Duration: 5:30 pm - 7:30 pm

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Spaces are limited to 30 participants, please register using Buy Tickets.

 

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We’re excited to invite you to the first Forgiveness Café in Stroud. This Café is a new community initiative and will be led by Sandra Barefoot (Executive Director, The Forgiveness Project, based in Bristol) and Angela Findlay (Storyteller, Artist, Author, local to Stroud), offering a unique participatory opportunity for compassionate conversations on grief, death, regret, and forgiveness in our personal relationships and lives.
“Thank you so much for the meeting today.  EXACTLY what I needed to save me from the big black hole that I felt I was in. Now I see some light, hope and a glimmer of joy in the essence of being. I really have had a seismic shift in perspective which is allowing me to approach my pain in a totally new way.” – Forgiveness Café Participant.
Doors open at 5:00pm for tea and cake.

 

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