 It is in the same parish as St James in Shere and the Sunday morning services alternate between them.The village school is unusual in that it is owned and run by residents and parents, who bought it after it was closed by the local education council in 1994.It is free to pupils (except those in the nursery classes) and raises all its own running costs (over £100,000 a year) without council or government support (aside from "early years" funding).