Fresh Bread Retreats

Monday 22nd June — 10am–4pm
Rest
The Old Parsonage, St Mary's Convent, 178 Wroslyn Road, Freeland, Witney, OX29 8AJ
Cost: £35

Saturday 8th August — 10am–4pm
Home
44 Forge Place, Fritwell, OX27 7QQ
Cost: £20

Life can be full of pressures & demands. A retreat gives an opportunity to pause, ponder & gain a different perspective. The retreat creates space for you to rest and relax. Time for space & silence during the day, as well as opportunities to talk together & gain insights from others if that's helpful. An opportunity for you to just 'Be still and know that God is God.'

The name Fresh Bread conveys the sense of God's longing to nourish us everyday with the Living Bread of Jesus. It was also partly inspired by one of the prayers from Ffald Y Brenin, a Christian retreat centre and House of Prayer in West Wales:

Life has a way of filling every corner if you let it. As a mum, a vicar, a wife, a friend — there always seemed to be more to give, more to do, more to be. And for a while, I just kept giving until there wasn’t much left. What turned things around wasn’t a plan or a programme. It was discovering the simple, surprising gift of space — retreat, stillness, room to breathe. It crept up on me slowly, and then it changed everything. Fresh Bread grew out of that. Not out of having it all together, but out of knowing what it’s like to need it. I wanted to create somewhere women could come and exhale — somewhere safe, unhurried, and warm. Somewhere you don’t have to perform or produce. Just be. I’m an Anglican vicar based in the Cotswolds, and I’ve spent decades walking alongside people through the full texture of life. I know how to hold space. I know how to listen. And I know that you are very welcome here, exactly as you are.