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The Passage

The clothing collection has now finished and seven sacks and one large box along with donations of £226.14 have been gratefully received.

New Vacancy at The Passage

A volunteer is needed to assist with basic finance and administration tasks, such as counting money and filing. Previous experience is not necessary. For details, see the 'Friends of the Passage' notice board in the Narthex

THE SOCIETY FOR THE PROTECTION OF UNBORN CHILDREN

Volunteers are needed for labelling and packing letters at our HQ office in Kennington, London SE1 14AB. Also a volunteer who has knowledge of data inputting. Lunch is provided and fares will be refunded. Contact Elizabeth Foody on 020 7091 7091 lizfoody 'at' spuc.org.uk

MARRIAGE PREPARATION PROVIDERS URGENTLY NEEDED

We are desperately short of people to facilitate our courses.

Do you think that preparing for marriage should be more that just planning the wedding? Would you like to help run a service which can make a fundamental difference to couples' lives?

At the Barnet & Enfield Centre of Marriage Care (www.marriagecare.org.uk) we are looking for people to help facilitate our marriage preparation courses, which are run once a month at Christ the King Church in Oakwood.

You would be given a 3 day training course and your minimum commitment would be a to assist with one course every 2 months.

For further information, please contact the presbytery.

FOUNDATION DEGREE IN HEALTHCARE CHAPLAINCY

St Mary's College, Twickenham, is recruiting students to begin this successful degree course, for more details please email Sam Chant at shants 'at' smuc.ac.uk or call 020 8240 4198

Good Neighbour Scheme

Information about the scheme is now on a separate page.

Catholic Singles

Catholic Singles is an organisation which helps single, widowed, separated and divorced Catholics of all ages (over 18 years) to meet, either one to one or through social events. All members receive a monthly bulletin, called Catholic Networking. For more information please tel. 0161 941 3498, visit the website www.catholicsingles.org.uk or email in info 'at' catholicsingles.org.uk

UNWANTED SPECTACLES

A very big thank you from Vision Aid Overseas (V.A.O) for the most recent consignment of your donated specs. Please keep the unwanted specs rolling in - V.A.O. still urgently need specs for volunteer opticians and optometrists to take to developing countries for the visually impaired. Simply place the unwanted specs in the SPECS BANK jar under the table in the narthex. Thanks!

Chiropody Transport

If you have difficulties with transport to the Mill Hill chiropody clinic, please phone the Good Neighbour Scheme who run a transport service on Tuesday mornings. Jeanettte Poulton 8906 3340

VOLUNTEERING WITH YOUNG PEOPLE

CAFOD is looking for volunteers to inspire children and young people to explore global justice issues, their faith and how they can act to make the world a fairer place. We urgently need volunteers to give presentations and lead workshops either in schools or in parish confirmation groups in the Westminster Diocese.

If you are passionate about social justice and enjoy public speaking and working with young people, please contact CAFOD Westminster for a CAFOD induction day by calling 020 8449 6970 or emailing 'Westminster' at 'cafod.org.uk'. Full training given. Volunteers will be accepted on successful completion of interview and a Criminal Records Bureau (CRB) check.

RAINBOWS

'Rainbows' is for girls aged 5-7 and precedes Brownies and Guides. The 4th Mill Hill Group which is based at Sacred Heart desperately needs another helper. No experience needed, aged 18 - 65, one hour a week term time only, on a Monday, 5.15 - 6.15pm. If you would like to help please contact T.L. via the presbytery.

Catholic Children's Society

The society is keen to hear from married couples or single people who would like to learn more about the possibilities of adopting. Children needing adopters today are in the care of local authorities. There are children of all ages waiting for for new families, with the greatest need being for those aged between five and seven. Full preparation and support is given during the assessment process and afterwards once a child has been placed. To find out more, contact us on 020 8969 5305; email 'info' at cathchild.org.uk, or visit http://www.cathchild.org.uk/.

Vincentian Volunteers

A positive opportunity for young people to undertake interesting charity work for one year, living in community with other volunteers. Accommodation and living expenses are provided. The year starts in September. If you would like to know more, please contact Sr. Maria Robb, D.C., 41 Damson Road, Netherley, Liverpool L27 8XR. (Tel 0151 487 8580), email 'info' at 'vincentianvolunteers.org' or visit the web site at http://www.vincentianvolunteers.org

Sacred Heart Stroke Club.

The volunteers are pleased to inform you that the club is now up and running. The beneficiaries are clients who have suffered a stroke. The club aims to provide them with a social outing, which gives them a chance to relax, chat over a cup of tea, read a paper, play games, listen to music, join in a quiz or other occasional activity, and to give their carers a break.

We have a few vacancies for clients who would like to join the stroke club. If you know of someone, please leave their contact details at the presbytery (020 8959 1021)  or ring 020 8906 1227 or 020 8959 2130.

We thank you for your prayers for this project.

Adoption

The Catholic Children's Society is keen to hear from married couples or single people who would like to learn more about the possibilities of adopting. Children needing adopters today are in the care of local authorities. There are children of all ages waiting for new families, and the greatest needs are among those aged between five and seven. Full preparation and support is given during the assessment process and afterwards once a child has been placed. To find out more, contact us on 020 8969 5305, email paulinem at cathchild.org.uk or visit the web site at http://www.cathchild.org.uk/

Holy Communion for the Housebound

The provision of Holy Communion for the housebound is being re-organised at present. If you are aware of someone who is not being looked after, please contact the parish office.

Volunteers needed

The Catholic Agency to Support Evangelisation (CASE) helps Catholics to engage in evangelisation, and gives information about Catholics Faith and Practice to enquirers. Our work is fast expanding and we need volunteers to help answer the phone, update our web sites and databases, enter donations, catalogue the library and miscellaneous other work. If you have an hour or two to spare every week or month, and can travel to Golders Green (expenses paid), please contact Mgr. Keith Barltrop, 114 West Heath Road, London NW3. Tel: 020 8458 3315 or email kb@caseresources.org.uk 

Postage Stamps

Many thanks for the postage stamps that were collected to raise funds for Ethiopia. In the past year, the sum raised was £1000. We are appealing to you to collect ALL the Christmas stamps, especially the foreign ones. A collecting box is in the narthex.

Do you pay income tax?

If you do, you could help the parish by joining the Planned Giving Scheme. For every £1 that you give we can claim back an additional 28p from the Inland Revenue.

If you do not pay income tax, you can still help by using our envelopes or having a Standing Order.

Transport to Mass

If anyone needs a lift to the 11:30 Mass on Sundays, places are now available on the mini-bus. Please contact the Friends of St Vincent.

HIV/AIDS Support

Positively Catholic is a group of people who are Catholic and are living with HIV. They meet monthly in Central London to share their faith together and offer encouragement to each other in facing the challenges of living with HIV. All Catholic People who are diagnosed HIV positive are welcome. For further details please contact Positivecatholics@btinternet.com by email. If you would like to speak to someone in confidence, please ring Janet on 079 4921 3475 or Vincent on 079 5247 5615.