THE SOCIETY OF THE FRIENDS OF LITTLE GIDDING

Registered charity 1102857 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as FRIENDS OF LITTLE GIDDING

To celebrate and commemorate Nicolas Ferrar, provide practical care and assistance in the upkeep of Little Gidding church, promote and arrange services, pilgrimages and educational visits and events at Little Gidding and elsewhere that celebrate and commemorate Ferrar's life and his lifestyle, and other historical visitors connected to Little Gidding including T S Eliot. To support Ferrar House.

Objects

(1) THE ADVANCEMENT OF RELIGION, AND IN PARTICULAR - (I) TO GIVE THANKS TO ALMIGHTY GOD FOR THE HOLY LIVES AND EXAMPLES OF NICHOLAS FERRAR AND THOSE WHO SHARED HIS LIFE AT LITTLE GIDDING. (II) TO VENERATE HIS MEMORY AND TO HONOUR THOSE IDEALS OF CHRISTIAN FAMILY LIFE OF WHICH LITTLE GIDDING PROVIDED SO PERFECT A PATTERN. (III) TO TAKE A PRACTICAL AND ACTIVE INTEREST IN THE CARE, UPKEEP AND ADORNMENT OF THE CHURCH OF LITTLE GIDDING AND ITS PRECINCTS. (IV) TO ARRANGE, AS OCCASION PROVIDES, FOR VISITS AND PILGRIMAGES TO LITTLE GIDDING AND, IN ANY OTHER WAYS THAT MAY BE DEEMED FITTING, TO PRESERVE THE SENSE OF LITTLE GIDDING AS A HOLY PLACE, FROM WHICH THE SANCTITY CAN NEVER DEPART. (V) TO ASSIST AND SUPPORT THE PROVISION OF ACCOMMODATION AND FACILITIES FOR PILGRIMS AND OTHER VISITORS TO COME TO, VISIT, OR STAY AT LITTLE GIDDING. (2) TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN THE LIFE OF NICHOLAS FERRAR AT LITTLE GIDDING AND ALSO THE CONNECTION OF T S ELIOT WITH LITTLE GIDDING.

Area of benefit: LITTLE GIDDING

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

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Registered contact address: Bristol, City of, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

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• Canon Simon John Kershawchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Nigel David Seaman
• Susan Waters

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Operates in: Cambridgeshire

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