Mission for Charity - Helping us to reach out to those in need, providing from our plenty, and seeing Jesus in them. 

Thanks for taking an interest in our Deanery matters... we are trying to build communities of care and justice, based on the Christ within each of us, and that we matter and are precious to God. The present cost of living increases, and conflicts and disasters around the world mean we must reach out, ask our brothers and sisters what they need, and listen to their replies, and act on them.

Join us on our journey, help us if you can, and pray for us always... 

As a start we feel we need to take stock of the services available, both within our Catholic setting and also withn the Christian communities locally. To take that information and make a useful source for us to have some direction when faced with situations where intuition is not enough to navigate us through.

Our basic proposals are:

Formation of a small group, say, 5 people with a mix of activity, SVP, K of St Columba, plus 3 people from across the deanery, to prayerfully meet, visit the parishes and speak about the work of the Deanery and the Missions.
Provision of useful information through our Deanery pages, to point people in need in a good direction. A useful source to advertise what is available, links to schools, food donations, soup kitchen, Police liaison (knife crime was given as a far reaching problem with cross generation effects), Compassion Acts, Shoreline Church, SVP and other local projects in our parishes helping with school uniforms, food vouchers etc.

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We will be contacting each parish by email, asking about their involvement with charitable work. How do they find out about who needs help, which services they use and why, and are there any areas of need they feel are not addressed at present due to any reason (lack of resources, knowledge, expertise...)? It is possible to think you know what's needed without asking, or listening, and then get it wrong.

What useful things might be going on we don't know about? We are trying to avoid duplication of effort and reinventing the wheel.

Cultivation of an active Parish involvement with awareness of need in their community, and recognition that we are asked to feed the hungry, clothe the naked, give drink to the thirsty. Encourage all parishioners to pray for us and get involved.

Also not to forget the international aid that so many countries rely on, and which is now being cut by our government. Funds always needed.

Some recent additions - Disabled help, care home visiting ( we have one of the largest numbers of care home beds per head of population in the country!), Link,