St Mary’s has a World-Wide Mission Committee. Its aims are:
- To support, both prayerfully and financially, those charitable organisations chosen by the Committee. These are mainly, but not always, organisations with a Christian foundation.
- To inform the congregation about these organisations by means of the parish magazine, weekly notices, magazines and newsletters on the Mission notice board, and to encourage the congregation to take an interest in, and support, all our fundraising events.
Whilst the church supports a variety of charities throughout the year, there is one project in particular which St Mary’s has a special commitment to support:
Premananda Hospital, Kolkata, West Bengal, India
We support the Premananda Hospital, Kolkata through the Leprosy Mission, who seek to support those affected by leprosy across the world. This project helps to ensure that those affected by leprosy in one of the most densely populated cities in the world are able to access the treatment they need, with a particular focus on orthopaedic care. Being treated early for orthopaedic complications caused by leprosy provides a new freedom for these patients, giving them an independence that might otherwise have been impossible to have (see Leprosy Mission India).
