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...

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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...

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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...

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...

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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...

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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...