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Sally,
who lives in Honington, is a Vicar in the Blackbourne team of villages
in north Suffolk. She has been recognised for her services to Rural
Affairs in East Anglia.
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Canon
Sally Fogden with the Right Revd Richard Lewis, Bishop of
St Edmundsbury & Ipswich
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As
the Bishop’s Agricultural Chaplain, she was responsible for
the creation of the Addington Fund which supported Suffolk’s
pig farmers through the outbreak of Classic Swine
Fever in 2000.
She also played a leading part in helping rural communities during
the Foot and Mouth epidemic in 2001.
Sally is a member of the national committee of the Rural Stress
Information Network, which assists rural communities across the
country, and has a seat on the National Board of the Farm Crisis
Network, a Christian organisation which helps those connected with
agriculture in times of crisis in their lives.
"I am very honoured," says Sally. "This award really
is a recognition of the work of so many
other people."
The Bishop of Dunwich, the Rt Revd Clive Young welcomed Sally’s
honour. "This public
recognition of Sally’s energetic and passionate concern for
Suffolk’s farming communities, in
good times and critical times will be applauded by all the churches
of the county."
"She been hugely supportive of farming and the countryside
and in particular those less
fortunate than herself, through the Rural Stress Information Network,"
says James Stamper,
Lay Canon at St Edmundsbury Cathedral and local farmer.
"Indirectly, Foot and Mouth hit many Suffolk communities and
Sally’s support was invaluable. I am sure the whole farming
community will be pleased for her."
Sally was a member of the first group of 22 women to be ordained
in the Diocese of St
Edmundsbury and Ipswich on April 30th 1994 and has been the Diocesan
Adviser on Women’s
Ministry since 1990.
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