Bury Town Pastors are dependent on grants and donations in order to operate, providing a caring presence on the streets of Bury St Edmunds on Saturday nights.
We are very grateful for grants recently received from:
- Crime and Disorder Reduction Grant from Suffolk Police and Crime Commissioner
- Suffolk Giving Fund through Suffolk Community Foundation
We are very grateful for donations recently received from:
- Churches in Bury St Edmunds and surrounding area
- Individuals, organisations and businesses
- The Rotary Club of Bury St Edmunds
- Bury St Edmunds Round Table (towards the cost of a projector)
- Bury Abbey Rotary Club
Our thanks also go to:
- Karooze Ltd (Flex, So Bar and The Gym) for emergency supplies of bottled water during Town Pastor shifts.
- Verve Bar/Nightclub for emergency supplies of bottled water during Town Pastor shifts.
Bury Town Pastors are extremely grateful for grants and donations received from so many sources since 2008.
- Churches in Bury St Edmunds and surrounding area
- Suffolk Community Foundation through Hodge and Shallow Fund
- Suffolk Community Foundation through Birketts Fund
- ‘St Eds Runs – the Ensors Running Festival 2021’
- Churches in Bury St Edmunds and surrounding area
- Karooze Ltd (from fundraising on New Year’s Eve 2019)
- Centre Parcs Community Fund, Elveden Forest, Brandon
- St Eds Running Festival 2019 and sponsorship raised by an individual entrant
- Karooze Ltd (from fundraising on New Year’s Eve 2018)
- Locality Budget Grant from Cllr Jo Rayner and Cllr Andrew Speed
- Bury St Edmunds Round Table
- St Eds Unique Bars Running Festival 2017 and sponsorship raised by individual entrants
- St Eds Running Festival 2018 and sponsorship raised by individual entrants
- Donations in memory of the late Lilian Olive Markham
- ASDA, Bury St Edmunds
- The Mayor’s Budget (Councillor Julia Wakelam)
- Suffolk Police and Crime Commissioner
- Suffolk Community Foundation through Harris Family Fund
- Suffolk Community Foundation through The High Sheriff’s Fund
- Suffolk Community Foundation through The Suffolk Giving Fund
- Suffolk Community Foundation through The Shadwell Fund
- Donations in memory of the late Donald Clarke
- Suffolk Community Foundation through The Suffolk Fund
- The Safer Suffolk Partnership Board
- Suffolk Police
- High Sheriff’s Organisation of the Year Award 2010
- Councillor Mark Ereira – Locality Budget
- Suffolk Foundation through The Safer Suffolk Foundation
- Waitrose Community Matters Scheme
- Suffolk Foundation through Suffolk Single Gateway
- Suffolk Foundation through Grassroots Grants
- The West Suffolk Community Safety Partnership
Our thanks also go to:
- Individuals, organisations and businesses who have supported Bury Town Pastors financially.
- Haversports for organising the ‘St Eds Runs – the Ensors Running Festival’, held in October 2021 and October 2022 to raise funds for Bury Town Pastors and to Ensors Chartered Accountants for sponsoring the event.
- ‘Our Bury St Edmunds’ for providing a cross-cut shredder
- Haversports for organising the St Eds Running Festival, held in October 2019 to raise funds for Bury Town Pastors; Abbeycroft Leisure, Knights Lowe and Taylor Wimpey for sponsoring individual races.
- Haversports for organising the St Eds Running Festival, held in October 2018 to raise funds for Bury Town Pastors.
- Haversports for organising the St Eds Running Festival, held in October 2017 to raise funds for Bury Town Pastors and My WiSH Charity; Unique Bars Ltd for sponsoring the event; Abbeycroft Leisure, Knights Lowe and Kent Blaxill for sponsoring individual races; Snackpax Distribution Ltd for providing provisions for the event.
- ‘Our Bury St Edmunds’ for providing earpieces for Town Pastor radios.
- ‘Our Bury St Edmunds’ for providing portable phone chargers for Town Pastors to carry while on patrol.
- ‘Our Bury St Edmunds’ for providing a portable external hard drive.
- Flex Nightclub for providing bottled water and Freddos.
- Club Brazilia for providing Freddos.
- Bid4Bury for providing uniforms for new Town Pastors.
- Bid4Bury for providing Bury Town Pastors with a laptop computer.
- Sainsbury’s, Bury St Edmunds for providing a month’s supply of bottled water and a year’s supply of small packets of tissues.