This is an organisation of well wishers that supports the Church. The principal focus of the Friends' current activities is the promotion of musical events in the Church and the raising of money, at the request of the PCC, to fund the cost of restoration of the Church's pipe organ.  
St Patrick's is remarkably privileged for a small and relatively remote rural parish to have a particularly fine instrument which was built by one of the leading organ builders of the Victorian period, William Hill, who also built, amongst other notable instruments, the organs at Ely and Chester Cathedrals, and at Kings College Cambridge and the Chapel Royal.  Sadly, time has taken its toll.  Despite diligent maintenance and thousands of pounds of expenditure in recent years, a point has been reached where the organ has only a few more years of useful life left to it unless a further programme of major restoration and refurbishment works is carried out.  The estimated cost is £75,000.  The Organ Fund already has pledges adding up to £40,000 and there is £6,000 in the Fund itself.  The Friends aim to raise the remaining money through a mixture of grants, individual donations and concert proceeds.  A number of members of the Friends have so far pledged nearly £1,000 a year for each of the next three years to help fund the cost of putting on concerts in the Church.  This will provide a stream of income of up to £5,000 a year against which the Friends hope to raise a loan repayable over three years of up to £15,000 towards to cost of the restoration work.