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We are a separate charity from the Ordinariate.
The Friends of the Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham was established in 2011 to support the work of the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham in England and Wales through both practically and financially. The secondary purpose of the Friends is to raise awareness of the Ordinariate’s life and mission within the wider Catholic community.
Company Number: 07680821
Charity Commission number: 1142667
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Fundraising
All the income of the Friends of the Ordinariate is by way of donations from individuals and trusts.
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Grants & Activities
Since our founding in 2011 we have been pleased to give grants to a great many projects. During the last three years FOTO has financed:
Building works at St Anselm’s Church, Pembury, Kent
A non-resident post-graduate degree of an Ordinariate priest
Grants to Ordinariate seminarians
60% of the cost of a new Viscount organ for the Ordinariate church in Birmingham
Part of the cost of a presbytery for an Ordinariate priest
The purchase of 30 copies of the Ordinariate Daily Office
The Newman Society (Oxford University) to cover the cost of renting space for a lecture by HE the late Cardinal Pell
New streaming equipment for the Ordinariate church in Torquay, Devon
Two years of stipend for a newly ordained Ordinariate priest
Grants are approved by the Trustees after consultation with the Ordinary. Anyone seeking a grant from the Friends of the Ordinariate should, as a first step, write to the Ordinary explaining the nature of the request and the reasons for it. Grants can only be made for projects or people directly connected with the Ordinariate or where there is a demonstrable benefit to the Ordinariate.
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Our Trustees
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Nicolas Ollivant
Chairman
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Peter Sefton-Williams
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Fr Richard Biggerstaff
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Michael Hodges
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Fr Nicholas Leviseur
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Richard Cleary
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Ben Fowler
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Our Honorary Vice-Presidents
The Rt Rev’d Abbot Hugh Allan O. Praem
Rt Rev’d Dom David Charlesworth, OSB
The Very Rev’d Fr Ignatius Harrison Cong Orat, Provost of the Birmingham Oratory
The Duke of Norfolk GCVO
The Duchess of Somerset
The Countess of Oxford and Asquith
Lord Nicholas Windsor
Lord Deben
Lord Moore of Etchingham
Lord Gill
The Rt Hon Sir Edward Leigh PC MP
Sir Adrian FitzGerald, Bt
Sir Josslyn Gore-Booth, Bt
The Squire de Lisle
The Hon Veronica Hodges
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Our Priests Affiliate
The Priests Affiliate are clergy from all over the world (including the UK, France, Germany, the USA and Portugal), who are not incardinated into the Ordinariate, but who nevertheless support the work and mission of the Ordinariate. It is administered by the Friends of the Ordinariate, and the priest affiliate support the us in three ways:
By praying for the Ordinary, and the Ordinariate, and for its mission and growth.
Prayer
By facilitating talks and financial appeals in their particular sphere of ministry, whether it be parochial, chaplaincy, etc.
Facilitation
Connection
By maintaining close links with us, centrally, or through friendship with clergy of the Ordinariate, and also by being ambassadors for the Ordinariate to the wider Church, and also in Ecumenical relations.
There are currently more than fifty Priests Affiliate, they are visited for parish appeals, and for the opportunity for the priest and faithful to develop links with the work of the Ordinariate.