Author Archives: Andy Brown
Vacancy – Food Bank Manager
The Trustees of Ribble Valley Gateway Trust are seeking to appoint an enthusiastic and inspirational leader wh will continue to build on the success and impact of the Ribble Valley Foodbank. 20 hours per week with salary of £16,000—wanted as soon as possible. For more details please see the poster in the porch.
Camino to COP – A Great Big Thank You!
What an amazing coming together of all of the Churches and faiths around Clitheroe and Newton-in-Bowland. So many good people to thank. It’s probably a mistake to try and remember everyone from St. Michael’s and St. John’s who baked, shopped, prepared food, listened, talked, shared kindnesses and generally just said “what can I do?” Thankyou to those who started the donation ball rolling, to those whose soup fed a lot of cold and hungry people after a horrible wet and windy walk over Waddington Fell, for the scores of packets of oatie goodness, to those for “manning the tea urn” and taking responsibility for securing the Hall, to those who did sterling work on the cleaning and furniture moving. For the kind offers to put people up and for help publicising the event. To all those who helped especially those who just mucked in. Finally, to Green Theory for the wonderful donation and sterling work on the day. There were so many food donations and therefore the leftover food was distributed to Clitheroe & Clayton Food Banks, The Salvation Army, a Veterans Group, the Beavers, and the Cookery Club attached to the Food Bank.
Assisted Dying Bill
This month an ‘Assisted Dying’ Bill will be debated in the House of Lords. If successful it will allow a terminally ill adult with less that 6 months to live assistance to commit suicide. The Bishops therefore urge you to pray this Bill is defeated, write to Peers and MPs expressing concern about this proposed legislation. Guidance on how to write to politicians can be found at parliament.uk/get-involved/contact-an-mp-or-lord/
Resources, which will be updated in the weeks ahead, can be found at https:///www.cbcew.org.uk/life-issues/
S.V.P. Help – the Need is as great as ever.
The Parish SVP Group is appealing to all parishioners for help. The St Vincent de Paul Society or SVP for short, is a group of volunteer parishioners who set out to help those in need. They need your assistance now more than ever as people suffer terrible hardship because of the Covid – 19 pandemic. There are families short of food, lonely people who need company, homeless individuals and families, people in financial hardship and those facing illness. Join us and work with them to help in whatever way you can – whether it’s packing up food parcels, phoning someone for a chat or giving someone a lift to an appointment. In addition, you might like to make a donation to enable the work to continue. The Bank Account Number is 46085858, the sort code is 60-60-04. For more information, please contact our President, Mr Andy McGuire on 07980 599 013. Thank you for your support.
Parish Draw
The 2020 Parish Draw will re-commence next week, as we only managed two draws in January and February last year because of lockdown. Those of you who have a draw ticket will automatically go into this years with the same lucky number. Please note NO money is due, what you paid last year has been brought forward.
CAFOD: Harvest Fast Day
This Family Fast Day on Friday 1 October, you can support people around the world who are dedicating their lives to protecting God’s creation – people like Ivanilde who are on the frontline of the climate crisis. By giving to Harvest Fast Day, you’ll be helping the people who have done the least to cause the climate crisis but are being hit the hardest by its devastating effects. . You can give online or by using a CAFOD envelope. Thank you.