Memorial Service Thursday 4th December 2025
Our Christmas Memorial Service will take place on Thursday, 4th December 2025 and will be held at St James's Church, Paddington, London, W2 3UD. The service will be live-streamed from the church and will be led by the Vicar, the Reverend Tim Handley, assisted by the staff of the funeral directors and a group of musicians.
As in previous years we will be supporting London's Air Ambulance Charity as our charity and invite you to support this vitally important service to the most seriously injured in our capital city.
London’s Air Ambulance Charity provides the capital’s only helicopter emergency medical service, running every minute of every day. Via aircraft or rapid response car, specialist doctors and paramedics are delivered to scene within minutes of critical injury to perform hospital-level surgery. Funded by donations, they aim to save lives and deliver the best for patients, whenever and wherever they’re needed most.
We very much hope you will be able to join us in person, or “tune in” and follow the service online, and be able to recall your deceased loved ones, by lighting a candle in their memory as we reflect upon those we have loved and lost.
St James's will be carrying the service live on its Facebook page: www.facebook.com/stjamessussexgardens
The service will remain on the parish Facebook page thereafter and so can be viewed at any time, day or night.
If you are not signed-up to Facebook, the live service can be viewed through the portal on the parish website. To view please follow these 3 easy steps:
1. Go to www.stjamespaddington.org.uk
2. Scroll down the Homepage to find the Facebook window
3. Click on the window
NB: Facebook will invite you to Log On or to Subscribe, but you can simply ignore this, if you wish, and continue watching.
