A fundraiser dinner is set to be hosted to celebrate 200 years of an iconic Salford church this September.
The celebrations will be held to mark 200 years of the St Philip’s Chapel Street church that has become beacon for the community.
The fundraiser dinner is set to take place on Saturday 13 September 2025 and hopes to be an exciting and inspirational evening.
Guests who attend will be welcomed to a three-course meal, charity auction, and live music.
As well as having the chance to hear stories from people who have been involved with the church through the decades, whilst being guided through the evening by our compere, TV Actor Sally Carman.
The bicentenary event will reflect on the church’s origins of leafy suburbia, which rapidly developed to provide cheap housing for workers moving into the city to find work in the new mills and factories.
But will also look on the church support through changing conditions and times, running four schools in the community and a women’s refuge.
And still two hundred years on the church continue to support local communities with a group of volunteers.
The church reaches out to vulnerable people with food banks, drop-in cafe, the Bags of Hope project and serving people experiencing homelessness.
As well as supporting asylum seekers, vulnerable women and local struggling families; reaching out to students and young adults in the city to encourage their spiritual wellbeing.
The fundraiser event will aim to continue supporting social groups, and hope to maintain the work they do in the community for the next 200 years.
With the fundraiser also hoping to help redevelop the building to ensure that it is a place fit for running the numerous children’s and youth groups that they host.
As well as being a beacon in the community for not only the worshipping community of over 300 people, but the people of Salford in need.
Ahead of the event Rector of St Philip’s, Gareth Robinson, said: “Through all the changes in the last two hundred years, Saint Philips church has shone brightly with light and faith in our community.
“Our bicentenary celebrations give us the chance to remember our past, celebrate the present, and look to the future.
“We’d love this iconic Georgian church building to be redeveloped to be fit to serve many in the next two hundred years through our worship and witness, as we work to see God’s kingdom come and poverty eradicated.”
Tickets to the fundraiser dinner will cost residents £100, and will be available until Friday 5 September – more information can be found here.
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