Site last updated 18 jANUARY 2012. Please visit often! - Latest Addition is the JANUARY / FEBRUARY POSTER (Poster of the Month) - ROUNDABOUT Magazine for AUTUMN 2011 can be viewed - click on 'Roundabout' and follow the link. CHELMSFORD DIOCESE The Diocese is the second largest Church region in England. It takes in the whole of Essex and five East London Boroughs. Within its boundaries are Cities, Seaports and Airports, Seaside Holiday Towns, Rural and Urban Areas and New Towns.   MOTHERS' UNION Mothers' Union is an International Christian Organisation with three and a half million members in 81 Countries. Mothers' Union aims to promote, support and encourage family life through prayer and practical action. Worldwide Programmes: Emergency Relief Fund Literacy and Development Training local development workers Family Life Parenting In the Chelmsford Diocese there is a network of branches with members of all ages, married and single, separated and divorced - and men too! Membership is open to all who have been baptised and who support the aims and objects of Mothers' Union. Members are involved in their parishes and beyond. In parishes they help with Baptism and Marriage Preparation, Toddler Groups, Pre Schools, Sunday Schools and a variety of other activities - every parish is different! Outside parish boundaries, for example, valuable work in prisons, and in contact centres, helps some of the less fortunate and more vulnerable young people, and parents too. Away From It All (AFIA) funds holidays for families who might otherwise not have a holiday. Chelmsford Mothers' Union has overseas links with the Mothers' Union in the Dioceses of: Thailand - Meru (Kenya) - Hpa-an (Myanmar) -Toungoo (Myanmar) - George (South Africa) and New Bussa (Nigeria). For news of these please go to the 'Overseas Links' page. More information about Mothers' Union in the Chelmsford Diocese, and about becoming a member, will be found in other pages of the website.