The Friends of Little Gidding

The annual commemoration of Nicholas Ferrar takes place at Little Gidding on his feast day, Saturday 4 December 2010, with a celebration of Holy Communion at 10.30am, led by Bishop David Walker. The AGM of the Friends of Little Gidding will follow after lunch. For more information, follow the link.

Member of the Friends, Frank Burns, is cycling from Huntingdonshire to Rome to raise money for victims of the Haitian earthquake.

Westminster Abbey will hold a service on Sunday 30 May 2010 at 6.30pm to commemorate the ordination, on Trinity Sunday 1626, of Nicholas Ferrar as a deacon. The Friends are closely involved in planning this service and members will be very welcome to attend.

The May Newsletter contains a report of the AGM, and information about the forthcoming Pilgrimage (on 22 May) and Eliot Festival (17 July) as well as a visit to Westminster Abbey (30 May). There are also book reviews, and news of other events at Little Gidding.

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This year’s Eliot Festival is on Saturday 17 July. Programme and ticket details are now available. Follow the link for more information.

The Little Gidding Pilgrimage this year will take place on Saturday 22 May 2010, and will be led by the Bishop of Huntingdon, Dr David Thomson. Note the earlier than usual date. For more details, follow the link.

The November Newsletter contains reports and pictures from the Eliot Festival and the Little Gidding Pilgrimage held in the summer, together with news of the AGM and Talk, and other forthcoming events.

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The 2009 Annual General Meeting of the Friends of Little Gidding will be held on Saturday 5 December, beginning with a celebration of Holy Communion at 10.30am, and followed by a talk by Trevor Cooper, Chair of the Ecclesiological Society. For more information, follow the link.

The annual commemoration of Nicholas Ferrar takes place at Little Gidding on his feast day, Friday 4 December 2009, with a celebration of Holy Communion at 11am. For more information, follow the link.

As part of the BBC’s Poetry Season. on Saturday 6 June BBC 2 will show an Arena documentary on the life of T S Eliot, including a section filmed in the snow at Little Gidding in February. Another programme about Eliot will also be shown on Friday 5 June. For more details, follow the link.