The Friends of The Wigboroughs

Who are we?

We are a registered charity, set up in 2005 and based in the villages of Great and Little Wigborough, two small communities in the heart of lovely rural north Essex. As with many rural communities, Great & Little Wigborough no longer have a pub, village hall or shop and so the Friends of the Wigboroughs was set up with the aim of running social events for the benefit of the villagers and using the funds raised by these events to maintain and restore the only public buildings that remain in the villages - the medieval parish churches of St. Nicholas and St. Stephen's.

What do we do?

Over the past seven years we have run many events, building community spirit in the villages and raising a substantial amount of money. We try and appeal to the broad range of interests within the villages and there can't be many residents who haven't come along to at least one of our events, be it a cream tea afternoon, garden's open day, quiz night, wine tasting or antiques road show evening. The climax of our yearly programme is the annual Wigborough's v Peldon cricket match and family fun day which takes place in late summer, and provides an opportunity for all the village to get together and cheer on our gallant sportsmen whilst partaking in a variety of delicious refreshments.

Since our inception we have raised over £31,000 which has been put to good use restoring and maintaining the two churches. These 13th/14th Century churches have huge significance for the villages, both in terms of their history and given the lack of any other public buildings within the parish that can be used for community gatherings. We have sought to make use of the churches whenever possible for our events- our annual quiz night is held by candlelight in the atmospheric St. Stephen's church - and to this end we have recently contributed £10,000 towards the creation of toilet and kitchen facilities at St. Stephen's which will make it much more usable for community events in the future. We have also donated £10,000 to the restoration of St. Stephen's Tower, which will be completed in May 2012. We have also funded a new bell for St. Stephen's - the peals now ring out over Wigborough hill for the first time in over 37 years, a very audible mark of our success!


		Welcome to the Friends of the Wigboroughs web site! The Friends of The Wigboroughs Mission Statement 1. To raise funds for the preservation of our two churches. 2. To have fun whilst raising the funds. 3. To rekindle a community spirit in our two villages.



	*Helping to Care for the future of the parish’s two historic church buildings, Could You?*	Who are we? We are a registered charity, set up in 2005 and based in the villages of Great and Little Wigborough, two small communities in the heart of lovely rural north Essex. As with many rural communities, Great & Little Wigborough no longer have a pub, village hall or shop and so the Friends of the Wigboroughs was set up with the aim of running social events for the benefit of the villagers and using the funds raised by these events to maintain and restore the only public buildings that remain in the villages - the medieval parish churches of St. Nicholas and St. Stephen's. What do we do? Over the past seven years we have run many events, building community spirit in the villages and raising a substantial amount of money. We try and appeal to the broad range of interests within the villages and there can't be many residents who haven't come along to at least one of our events, be it a cream tea afternoon, garden's open day, quiz night, wine tasting or antiques road show evening. The climax of our yearly programme is the annual Wigborough's v Peldon cricket match and family fun day which takes place in late summer, and provides an opportunity for all the village to get together and cheer on our gallant sportsmen whilst partaking in a variety of delicious refreshments. Since our inception we have raised over £31,000 which has been put to good use restoring and maintaining the two churches. These 13th/14th Century churches have huge significance for the villages, both in terms of their history and given the lack of any other public buildings within the parish that can be used for community gatherings. We have sought to make use of the churches whenever possible for our events- our annual quiz night is held by candlelight in the atmospheric St. Stephen's church - and to this end we have recently contributed £10,000 towards the creation of toilet and kitchen facilities at St. Stephen's which will make it much more usable for community events in the future. We have also donated £10,000 to the restoration of St. Stephen's Tower, which will be completed in May 2012. We have also funded a new bell for St. Stephen's - the peals now ring out over Wigborough hill for the first time in over 37 years, a very audible mark of our success! St Stephen's Church, Great Wigborough St. Nicholas's Church, Little Wigborough.



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‘The parish churches of England are some of the most sparkling jewels in the precious crown that is our historic environment.’ Dr Simon Thurley, Chief Executive, English Heritage


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