Every year since Old Glory was formed, we have made donations to various organisations out of the money we have collected during the winter. Most of the beneficiaries are local, many were chosen because of a shared interest in keeping history alive and some have special meaning to individual members. A few have received more than one donation.
Here is a list, in no particular order, of those we have been able to help over the years because of the generosity of our audiences:
Middleton Primary School
Marie Curie Cancer Research Foundation
The Southwold Christmas Lights
Southwold Sailors’ Reading Room Association
The Long Shop Museum Trust, Leiston
The Print Museum, Beccles
Rumburgh Village Hall
Macmillan Cancer Relief (Lowestoft)
The Sirapite Restoration Appeal, Leiston
Wrentham Historical Society
Southwold Primary School
Bungay Guides and Brownies
Whittlesea Straw Bear
Middleton Village Hall
Southwold Museum
Bardwell Windmill Restoration
Rumburgh Children’s Christmas Party
St. Michael and St. Felix Church, Rumburgh
Cancer Research UK
The East Anglian Air Ambulance
St. Elizabeth Hospice
Multiple Sclerosis Society
St. Margaret South Elmham Village Hall
The N.S.P.C.C.
The World Land Trust
Big Dog Ferry
Halesworth Area Community Transport
The Royal National Lifeboat Institution
Suffolk Accident Rescue Service
The Seagull Theatre, Pakefield, Lowestoft
YANA (rural and farm workers’ mental health charity)
Emmaus (Norfolk & Waveney)
Waveney Foodbank