Church Services

Two cross-community church services took place on Sunday 10 March:  The first, A Service of Thanksgiving : The Honourable The Irish Society, at 11.00am in St Columb's Cathedral, Londonderry, and the second,
A Service of Choral Evensong, at 6.00pm in St Patrick's Church, Coleraine.

The Irish Society wishes to thank the Dean of Derry & Raphoe,
The Very Rev Dr Wm Morton, and the Rector of St Patrick’s Church,
Rev Roger Cooke, for their generous help in arranging the Services.

400 Reasons to Invest

On Wednesday 6 February, the City of London Corporation hosted an Inward Investment Seminar at Guildhall in London.  Organised in partnership with InvestNI and focussing on cultural industries and sectors in Derry~Londonderry and Coleraine, read more about the event here.

The Drapers’ Company donates £5,000

The Drapers’ Company’s Charities Committee considered the Governor’s appeal and their Clerk has sent a grant of £5,000 to the Society’s 400th Anniversary fund.  It came with a special request that the money be distributed as small grants in the Drapers’ Company’s area of interest surrounding Draperstown and Moneymore, and with every confidence that our Secretary will be familiar with the sort of projects the Company would wish to support.

Two possibilities have already been identified:  the Meet ‘n’ Eat Friendship Club which promotes interaction and friendship and provides a hot 3-course lunch in warm hospitable surroundings of the local Church of the Nazarene hall for elderly / disadvantaged people in the rural area of Magherafelt.  And St Columba’s Parish Church, Draperstown, towards the purchase of digital projection equipment primarily for use by young people in the parish.

The Clothworkers’ Company donates £5,000

In response to the Governor’s appeal to the Plantation Livery Companies for a contribution towards additional funding for charitable grant activities during 2013, The Clothworkers’ Company – which continues to play an extremely valuable support role as benefactors in the Coleraine area – has generously donated £5,000 to the Society’s grant giving programme.

In addition, the London Metropolitan Archives reported that The Clothworkers' Company has also contributed £1,000 to the transcription and web-publication of the Great Parchment Book.