President The Rt Revd Peter Wheatley
This charity is aimed at supporting, informing and engaging with older people. It is generously supported by our church, but equally by St. Pancras Church where it is based. Its strapline is ‘Taking Ageing and Faith Seriously’. Organised activities for members take place in St. Pancras’ Church Hall, conveniently located opposite Euston Station, in Lancing Street.
PSALM’s income comes from grants by charitable trusts and donations by churches and individuals, plus membership subscriptions and fees for consultancies, seminars and workshops. The workshops are either hosted by PSALM or given to churches across London. Our church is a corporate member of PSALM which entitles 1 member from our congregation (who is not an individual member) to attend any workshop given by PSALM at a 20% reduced charge.
The next 2 workshops are : ‘Health, Healing & Eternity led by the Revd Chris McKenna who is the Director of the St Marylebone Healing and Counselling Centre, on 26th April 11 am to 3 pm and ‘An Enneagram Workshop’ led by Simon Parke an ex-priest who, among other things, writes a weekly column for the Daily Mail (2 sessions on Tuesday 8th May and Tuesday 15th May 11 a.m. – 3 p.m. Information and application forms will be at the back of the church. No doubt readers may wonder what an enneagram might be? The leaflet says ‘an ancient and insightful tool for understanding ourselves and others’.
PSALM has published a catalogue of workshops for churches and other organisations which PSALM can host or enable the organisation to host, at an hourly rate (to be negotiated). A copy has been made available to our church. The Annual Report for 2011 lists 12 churches or other groups with whom PSALM has worked and another 6 for which consultancies were provided during the year.
Further information on PSALM is available on its website www.PSALM.org.uk