BBC filming at St Vincent's Leeds

Don't blame children for food poverty

By Sheena Eastwood, manager, St Vincent Centres in Leeds and Bradford. Original article appeared in the Friday 13th November issue of the Catholic Universe. It is impossible to ignore the tidal media...

SVP welcomes Kruger Report

Covid-19 has devastated lives, but it has also demonstrated the unflinching ‘neighbourliness’ of communities, who have risen to the challenges trailing in the wake of the pandemic, friendship and...

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Fighting poverty with kindness

The Covid-19 pandemic has added a host of dreaded words to our everyday vocabulary; furlough, antibody test, social distancing, and self-isolation being the most frequently used. However, there is to...

SVP President welcomes the power and passion of Fratelli Tutti 

Pope Francis’s latest encyclical, ‘Fratelli Tutti’, has been welcomed by the SVP as “a powerful and passionate declaration to all Christians that they should work in solidarity for the those 4...

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SVP members rededicate at live streamed Mass

A series of special Masses were streamed live from the magnificent St Chad’s Cathedral in Birmingham to mark the feast day of St Vincent de Paul, and to celebrate the launch of the St Vincent Rise a...

Celebrate Feast of St Vincent de Paul with livestreamed Masses

To mark the feast of St Vincent de Paul this weekend, special livestreamed Masses will take place from St Chad’s Cathedral, Birmingham, at 12 noon and 2pm on Saturday 26 September and 10am and on 27...

Building brighter futures in India through student sponsorship

In India, one of the most populous and economically diverse countries in the world, the SVP has helped thousands of young people go to school through the SVP Student Sponsorship Scheme. During student...

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Phased reopening of St Vincent's community shops

From 15 June, we'll start to safely reopen St Vincent's community shops in line with Government guidelines. Thank you for your patience and for holding onto your donations at home until we are accept...

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