Don't be lonely this Christmas
There has been an epidemic of loneliness this year driven by pandemic restrictions, but with the festive season around the corner a more poignant isolation looms for many. However, with a vaccine and...
Published on 18/12/2020
A Christmas message from SVP National President, Helen O'Shea
SVP National President, Helen O’Shea, looks back at 2020 and the work of SVP members, volunteers and staff across England and Wales in her Christmas message.Over the past year, we’ve been on in...
Published on 17/12/2020
SVP joins Dame Helen Mirren for Christmas Meal Appeal
The St Vincent de Paul Society (SVP) is partnering with social enterprise Social Bite and online food delivery service Just Eat to provide thousands of meals to feed people this winter.The Appeal aims...
Published on 15/12/2020
SVP hails Giving Tuesday a ‘complete success’
The St Vincent de Paul Society (SVP) has hailed Giving Tuesday a complete success after the volunteering charity smashed its target by 400%.A secret benefactor matched, pound-for-pound, any on to to a...
Published on 11/12/2020
SVP launches Giving Tuesday campaign
A generous donor has promised to match, pound-for-pound, any donation made to the SVP on Giving Tuesday.Giving Tuesday, which this year takes place on 1 December, has become a worldwide since its in...
Published on 01/12/2020
Let's celebrate the act of kindness
By Helen O'Shea, SVP National President.We are a world of 7.8 billion and we have more in common than you might imagine.We all need the same things; food, shelter, warmth and love, but sadly there who...
Published on 29/11/2020
SVP urges solidarity over poverty
The Chancellor delivered his Spending Review yesterday. Here is our official response:The St Vincent de Paul Society (England & Wales) welcomes the announcement of increased spending to inequalities a...
Published on 26/11/2020
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...
Published on 19/11/2020
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...
Published on 15/10/2020
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...
Published on 12/10/2020