Helen O'Shea will be the 19th National President of the St Vincent de Paul Society (SVP) in England and Wales when she takes up the mantle from Adrian Abel this November.In a profile written for her...
Published on 12/09/2017
On a hazy Tuesday morning in July Fr Padraig Ryan, a Catholic chaplain at the homelessness charity The Passage, invites SVP Senior Media and Communications Officer, Anita Boniface to attend a small...
Published on 09/08/2017
The SVP's contribution to the Vincentian Family's celebrations to mark 400 years of Vincentian charism took place with a well attended National Meeting and Mass in Liverpool on 23 and the keynote and...
Published on 07/07/2017
A new national president elect for the SVP in England and Wales has been announced. Helen O’Shea, a member of the SVP at St Joan of Arc’s Conference in Highbury, London, will take up the Adrian in...
Published on 04/07/2017
Cardinal Vincent Nichols, Catholic leader in England and Wales and patron of the SVP, has praised the Society's 10,000 members for their work with people who are vulnerable.The Cardinal said: the SVP...
Published on 31/03/2017
David Allman is a Friend of the SVP, making regular donations to support our work with vulnerable people. David explains why he chose the I...
Finn Collins, 11, from Whitstable has come up with a great idea to help the homeless cope with the cold this winter. While looking through SVP cold weather packs - known as Vinnie Packs – that was a...
Published on 01/12/2016
SVP members from across the diocese gathered at a Festival Meeting at St Cuthbert’s North Shields to mark two significant anniversaries - the 170th anniversary of the parish SVP Conference and of of...
Published on 01/11/2016
The SVP's good works are 'an outward sign of faith'In a profile for the Catholic Times, former MP Ann Widdecombe talks to SVP Senior Communications & Media Officer, Anita Boniface, about to balancing...
Published on 26/10/2016
September marked the SVP’s annual awareness month, the theme this year asking “Who Cares?”With a focus on loneliness, hunger, material poverty and sickness, the campaign highlighted the work who...
Published on 01/09/2016