Our Charitable Work
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
Horse Sense Wirral (horse sanctuary)
Old Glory Molly Dancers & Musicians continue to reimagine an ancient East Anglian tradition whereby agricultural labourers would take to dancing outside local pubs during the coldest winter months when work was scarce, begging, often with menaces, for cash, beer and bread to sustain them. In the days when begging was a criminal offence, the dancers wore heavy disguise – soot on their faces, their jackets turned inside out and adorned with ribbons of fabric - for fear of the Lord of the Manor identifying them and thus withholding his largesse, or even evicting them from their tied cottage.
Fortunately, nowadays there is less dependence on the bread line keeping the wolf from the door, and so monetary offerings from the generous public are donated to local charities.
Old Glory’s last season saw six donations of £500 each being given to the Rumburgh Church fabric appeal, St Elizabeth Hospice, Lighthouse Women’s Aid, Emmaus Ditchingham, Norfolk and Suffolk 4X4 Response, and the ‘It’s On The Ball’ testicular cancer charity, which is a charity also supported by The Rumburgh Buck, Old Glory’s spiritual home.
If we are ever privileged enough to have you in our audience, look out for our Box Man who will move silently amongst you, fixing you with his steely glare, whilst presenting his collection box to drop a few coins into. Notes gratefully accepted too, but despair ye not if you carry no cash - our box is fitting with a new-fangled device that accepts something called payments cards. Please give generously to support those in need.
Previous recipients are listed below:
