Hodge 2022 Calendar featuring beautiful photographs of our very own cat by professional pet photographer Bridget Davey is now available to pre-order.

In September 2021, Southwark Cathedral will host The Leaves of the Trees, an installation of 5,000 steel ‘Hope’ leaves, as a reflective memorial to the effects of the Coronavirus pandemic.

You can now order your own Hope leaf, which will be produced individually and shaped by hand. You will also receive a certificate of authentication, signed by the artist Peter Walker. Leaves are priced at £25 (including VAT and P&P in the UK only) and a proportion of the profits support the work of the Cathedral.

On the south bank of the Thames and demarcated by Blackfriars and Tower Bridges lies the district known as Bankside, the Borough and Southwark.

Its origin was in a Roman settlement nestling around the southern end of London Bridge, until the eighteenth century the only bridge across the Thames in London. Being separated only by the Thames from the City of London and outside the City's jurisdiction, it developed as a place for bawdy and disreputable entertainment and leisure - including the Globe Theatre made famous by performing William Shakespeare's plays.