How the Friends raise funds for St Mary's Church Hadleigh

Friends of St Mary's Church Hadleigh raise much-needed funds through donations, legacies, fundraising events and book sales. Individuals and businesses become Friends by making donations.

download: relaunch and appeal

download: Friends of St Mary's members application form

download: GiftAid form

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about St Mary's Church

Our main fundraising event is the annual Hidden Gardens of Hadleigh event. This  year it will be held on Saturday 7th  June 2025 

Last year 25 gardens were on show, including the famous garden at Benton End. The event attracted 960 visitors from as far afield as Bournemouth, Kent, Northampton – and even France!  The event raised £5,297.94 for The Friends of St Mary's, contributing to the restoration and maintenance of our beautiful old church

THE FRIENDS’ OWN PUBLICATIONS

• "Hadleigh Suffolk 1900-2000: A Century in Word and Pictures" by Roger Kennell


• "Hadleigh Suffolk Then and Now"


• "Signs of the Times" Roger Kennell


• "The Inventory" Sue Andrews


• "The Hadleigh Corset Factory of P&S"


• "Hadleigh Deanery Tower through Six Centuries" Roger Kennell


• "Hadleigh During World War Two 1939-1945 - The Home Front Story" Roger Kennell


• "Hadleigh Suffolk and the Reformation – Notes from a lecture at St Mary’s" David Cornick


• "Living with a Legacy: Today’s Churches

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  & Yesterday’s Reformations - Notes from a lecture at St Mary’s" David Cornick


• Historic Picture Postcards

Repairs to part of the church roof