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Annual Parochial Church Meeting

Our Annual Parochial Church Meeting takes place at St James on Sunday 17th May at 12.30pm. You can download the documents below:

By Matthew Simpkins, 17 minutes6th May 2026 ago
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Eco Church Silver Award for St James & St Christopher

We are thrilled that A Rocha has awarded our parish with a Silver ECO CHURCH award. This is the result of a lot of hard work done by our two churches over many years to make the most of the habitats in our churchyards, and an acknowledgement of our efforts Read more

By Matthew Simpkins, 23 minutes6th May 2026 ago
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Holy Week & Easter 2026

Tim Ireland – and others – took some wonderful photographs of our Holy Week and Easer services this year.

By Matthew Simpkins, 28 minutes6th May 2026 ago
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Jaywick Floods Memorial Service

On Sunday 1st February St Christopher’s, Jaywick revived the village’s commemoration service for the floods of 1953. The service, led by Fr Matt , drew over a hundred people: the church’s largest congregation for many years.   The 1953 floods claimed the lives of 5% of Jaywick’s population at the Read more

By Matthew Simpkins, 3 months10th February 2026 ago
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Fr. Matthew – An Introduction

Dear friends, I am thrilled to be joining you in Clacton and Jaywick in September and wanted to write to introduce myself and my family. I grew up in Sudbury and Ipswich, the son of a vicar and a nurse. At a young age I developed a deep love of Read more

By Paul Siddall, 10 months26th June 2025 ago
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APCM 2025

Thanks to all the groups in our church who contributed to our APCM reports for this year. Also, my thanks to all those that attended the meeting after mass on the 18th May. There was a lot that we all accomplished over the past year; which was impacted on our Read more

By Paul Siddall, 12 months20th May 2025 ago
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APCM 2023

Many thanks to those who contributed towards our APCM reports this year, and also those who took time to attend our meeting at the end of May. It was a great opportunity to reflect on th many things we have achieved in the last 12 months and to consider our Read more

By St James’s Parish, 3 years31st May 2023 ago
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Evensong and Benediction – Corpus Christi

We are celebrating Corpus Christi on Sunday 11th June – why not join us? After such a successful round of evensongs, we are preparing something a little special for this Christian festival where we remember Christ’s presence with us in the Eucharist – our meal of bread and wine. If Read more

By St James’s Parish, 3 years25th May 2023 ago
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Launching the CLCGB

We are really excited about the launch of our Church Lads’ and Church Girls’ Brigade here at St James’s. It has a been a long time since we have had the resources and young people to be able to undertake any youth fellowship, but with our growing numbers of young Read more

By St James’s Parish, 3 years5th April 2023 ago
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Our Latest News and Events

Thank you for visiting our website. If you’d like to see more services and events going on at St James’s and St Christopher’s then why not sign-up for our online newsletter or follow us on Facebook?  We endeavour to publicise as much as we can on our website, but our Read more

By St James’s Parish, 3 years1st January 2023 ago

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St James's Vicarage
44 Wash Lane
Clacton-on-Sea
CO15 1DA

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Safeguarding

We are committed to Safeguarding Children, Young People, Victims/perpetrators of Domestic Abuse and Vulnerable Adults.

The PCC has adopted the Church of England’s policies and best practice on safeguarding which may be found on the Church of England’s website.

Our parish safeguarding officer is Barbara Newton who can be contacted  by email at pso@stjamesclacton.org.uk or by telephone 01255 610 038

More safeguarding guidance, policies and advice can also be found on the relevant pages of the website of the Diocese of Chelmsford.

For more information visit our safeguarding page. To report an incident contact our safeguarding rep or if someone is in immediate danger call the police 999.

Safe Spaces is a free and independent support service, providing a confidential, personal and safe space for anyone who has been abused by someone in the Church or as a result of their relationship with the Church of England, the Catholic Church in England and Wales or the Church in Wales.
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