The 600+ medieval churches of Norfolk are an iconic part of our landscape and they are facing a funding crisis, like so many other churches across the country, struggling as the traditional methods of raising money, such as village fetes, have been cancelled.

Our Parish Church, St Mary’s Baconsthorpe, has been focusing on giving support to local charities during this terrible Covid crisis.  Amongst others the Cromer Food Bank, The Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital and some national charities with local resonance, such as RNLI, Age UK, Royal Agricultural Benevolent Institution. We would like to continue to continue to do this, rather than spending all our fund raising efforts on the upkeep of the church. Therefore, I am raising money for St Mary’s Baconsthorpe (where half of any kind donation will go, with the rest going to the Trust), so that we can achieve our aim of continuing to give the collections in our services to those in need.