Pat Bishop, SVP member

SVP member celebrates 100th birthday with charity challenge

Indefatigable great-grandmother Pat Bishop is marking her 100th birthday by walking 500 steps every day during Lent to raise money for families around the world living without access to water.Pat, and...

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‘Angels’ came to help me, now I’m one of them

International Women’s Day celebrates gender equality, and the strength and bravery of women to create an inclusive world. When Alison’s world fell apart, she had to draw on her resilience and of a...

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Jenny walking to raise money for Sudan appeal

Jenny completes 1,000-mile trek for Sudan appeal

Jenny Wilson, 74, of Bletchingley, Surrey, embodies International Women’s Day. She has completed a 1,000 mile trek to raise money for the SVP’s Baby Feeding Programme in South Sudan, but she sign...

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Family walking up stairs

SVP responds to the Chancellor’s Budget, March 3, 2021

By Elizabeth Palmer, CEO of the St Vincent de Paul Society (England and Wales)Today’s Budget delivered by Chancellor Rishi Sunak represents one of the most important political statements of and at a...

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A volunteer delivering a food parcel to an isolated older person.

This Lent give up a little time to help others, SVP urges

The SVP is encouraging people to make Lent extra meaningful this year by giving up a little of their time to help others during the Covid-19 pandemic.It’s traditional for many to give up some other...

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Memory Tree at St Vincent's Centre, Brighton (Tower House)

Random acts of kindness matter

By Lindsay MacRae, Centre Coordinator for services at the SVP’s St Vincent’s Centre, Brighton (Tower House).It’s like waiting for a tidal wave to hit. You know what’s out there. You for it as...

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Screenwriter and novelist, Frank Cottrell-Boyce

Screenwriter Frank Cottrell-Boyce voices SVP film project

Acclaimed Merseyside screenwriter and novelist Frank Cottrell-Boyce has added his voice to a new series of films for the St Vincent de Paul Society (SVP).The writer, who penned movies Welcome (1997),...

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