Sunday Services

We are a welcoming, progressive, inclusive community offering a fresh approach to the sacred.

Sunday Services are at 10:45 am.
Now held in the building and concurrently via Zoom.

Our Book, Poetry and Taizé Singing groups meet regularly and you are welcome to join in – just contact us via our Secretary for more details (01473 728498). Many of the meetings are held online as we continue to adjust to a post Covid world.

We are currently collecting donations for Brave Futures, a specialist support service for children and young people up to the age of 18 years who have experienced sexual abuse. They work throughout Suffolk and Norfolk, providing a safe place for children and young people to make sense of the confusion they feel, helping them move from victim to survivor.

We also hold special services throughout the year – our Membership service; a St Cecelia musical service; a harvest festival and a Carol service by Candlelight.

A photo of the front of The Hold in Ipswich.

On – Friday 17th May 2024 – from 11am the Meeting House will be open for free conducted tours with a registered tourist guide and members of the congregation to answer any questions. (Friars Street, Ipswich, IP1 1TD)

From 1pm to 5pm the Suffolk Records Office at the Hold in Ipswich (131 Fore Street, IP4 1LR) will be displaying all the Meeting House archives and records securely for view.

There will be two presentations in the afternoon at the Hold –

‘We are now in the Tabernacle of Meeting: the Origins and Founders of the Ipswich Unitarian Meeting House’ by Minister Emeritus Rev Cliff Reed

And

‘A Comet in the System: Joseph Priestley and the Emergence of Rational Dissent in the Eighteenth Century.’ By Dr Elizabeth Kingston Harrison.

Refreshments will be provided at the Hold.

Entry is free, though we ask that you let us know that you are coming so that we can manage numbers. Send a short email to ipswichunitarian@gmail.com and visit Eventbrite.

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Robert Waller recently celebrated 50 years as the organist of Ipswich Meeting House! You can listen to the entire concert through the embedded video below.

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