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CAFOD has volunteering opportunities to suit you whether you want to do weekend volunteering, evening volunteering, or one-off volunteering.  With opportunities all over England and Wales, you can take part near you or further away.

However you get involved, volunteering with CAFOD will give you the opportunity to:

Learn new skills which would be great for your CV;

Meet inspiring new people, including some of CAFOD’s overseas partners;

Make new friends in your community and others across England and Wales;

Work alongside experts in their field, and;

Make a tremendous difference in the fight against global poverty and injustice.

cafod.org.uk/Volunteer/Volunteering-opportunities

 

 

Fr Silvester Three more cases of medical items have been delivered to London & will soon be on their way to Uganda.  They have just set up a new website which is in its early stages with information about the Health Centre, see http://Stfaustinamedicalcenter.com

 

 

Transition Town Worthing Repair  Café Book now for their next Repair Café session on Saturday 29th October– 10am-4pm at the Quaker Meeting House, 34 Mill Road, Worthing, BN11 5DR. As usual our amazing team of volunteers will be on hand to share their skills and help you to repair a wide range of damaged and broken items and save them from landfill!  www.ttworthing.org/2022/10/04/ttw-repair-cafe-now-booking-for-october/

 

LIVE SIMPLY Tip of the Week   Avoid leaving appliances on standby.  On average UK households spend £35 a year powering appliances left in standby mode.  This is the energy used by certain appliances when not in use and not switched off at the plug. As well as standby power, other new additions to the average household’s collection of electrical goods such as broadband modems, broadband routers, digi-boxes and telephones use low levels of electricity when not in use. These are not items that we tend to think to turn off, but can gradually go on to consume a great deal of electricity over the year. Also avoid leaving lights switched when areas aren’t in use. If everyone switched off their appliances & lights the country could do away with one or more Nuclear Power Stations!

 

Anti-slavery week, beginning 17th October Join the Abolition Initiative’s  Kickoff Event for Antislavery Week  at the Ropetackle Centre, 17 October 2022 at 11:00am – 12:30.

Were you shocked by Mo Farah’s story of being trafficked and enslaved as a child? Did you know, statistically, there are slaves living and working within a few miles radius of your home?

Learn about slavery today and how you can make a difference, by joining the fight against this modern day scourge. If we work together we can make our world slavery free in our lifetime!

This kickoff event will include the following:

* Keynote Presentation by Elizabeth Matthews, followed by Q&A

* Music led by Elizabeth

* Creation of  a symbolic chain to represent slavery, one link at a time, using provided materials

* Writing on each link the words and phrases associated with slavery today, such as

* the Antislavery Help Line Number 0800 121700,

* the signs of slavery

* abolition phrases like “We See You”

You can attend additional meetings too and help Shoreham-by-Sea create the longest symbolic chain ever!

More events during Antislavery Week take place at:

18 October (Antislavery Day) 7:30pm, St. Peters’ Church Hall, 61 West Street

19 October 7:30pm, Crabtree Inn, 6 Buckingham Road

23 October Noon, Saint Mary de Haura church

This final event on 23 October, will bring us all together in the heart of Shoreham-by-Sea, immediately after the morning church service, at St. Mary de Haura. Here we will combine all the chains created at the other events, and then break them to symbolise that We Can Break the Chains of Slavery in Shoreham-by-Sea. https://www.antislavery.org/stamping-out-slavery/

 

 

Transition Town Worthing Repair  Café Book now for our next Repair Café session on Saturday 29th October– 10am-4pm at the Quaker Meeting House, 34 Mill Road, Worthing, BN11 5DR. As usual our amazing team of volunteers will be on hand to share their skills and help you to repair a wide range of damaged and broken items and save them from landfill!  https://www.ttworthing.org/2022/10/04/ttw-repair-cafe-now-booking-for-october/

 

 

LIVE SIMPLY Tip of the Week  Did you know that the major high street Banks’ lending policies could take the planet to 3 degrees higher global warming With this in mind there’s many ethical savings policies and Banks to take us in the opposite direction https://www.comparethemarket.com/current-accounts/content/ethical-banking/

 

 

 

CAFOD Family Fast Day Second Collection is this Sunday 9^th Oct.  The money will go towards the World food crisis appeal. Millions of families are facing a food crisis that could be the worst in living memory. Your donations can help CAFOD’s local experts to provide emergency food supplies to families in the worst affected countries in East Africa and support communities around the world working hard to put food on the table. Please place envelopes or acsh in the baskets or give via the card readers, otherwise online at cafod.org.uk/give  you can also give through the QR code on the envelope & posters.  Please fill in the Gift Aid section on the envelope if a UK taxpayer.  There’s information on the envelope and online how to start a monthly donation to CAFOD.

 

 

Live Simply Tip of the Week. Draughts Most houses, particularly old ones, have cracks and gaps where warm air goes out and cold air blows in. Draught-proofing is easy and any competent DIYer can fix gaps between or around floorboards; around windows and doors; through the letterbox; where pipework comes through external walls; around the loft hatch; and around electrical fittings. It’s important to never block boiler flues, air bricks, or window trickle vents and avoid over draught-proofing windows in kitchens and bathrooms where the moist air needs to escape. Otherwise, you could end up with damp or mould problems.

cse.org.uk/news/view/2716

 

CAFOD Family Fast Day Second Collection Next Sunday 9^th Oct – will go towards the World food crisis appeal. Millions of families are facing a food crisis that could be the worst in living memory. Your donations can help CAFOD’s local experts to provide emergency food supplies to families in the worst affected countries in East Africa and support communities around the world working hard to put food on the table. Please take an envelope today from on the seats and return it next Sunday or you can give via the card readers as from next Sun, otherwise online at cafod.org.uk/giveyou can also give through the  QR code on the envelope & posters.  Please fill in the Gift Aid section on the envelope if a UK taxpayer.  There’s information on the envelope and online how to start a monthly donation to CAFOD.

 

Season of Creation continues until 4thOct St Francis’s day. To keep updated about what’s happening around the world see https://seasonofcreation.org/

 

Live Simply Tip of the Week.  Bus passes for pensioners & people with disabilities. Many in this category have yet to apply and now could be the time with the coming rise in fuel bills and the current climate emergency. Passes are free of charged and can be obtained from West Sussex CC.  Apply online at www.westsussex.gov.uk/buses or phone 033 022 26222. Another way to get to church!

The Centre for Sustainable Energy (CSE) has put together an excellent blog with some great practical advice to help you prepare for the winter ahead amid the biggest price rise in energy bills in decades:
https://www.cse.org.uk/news/view/2716

 

There will be an evening of entertainment at Holy Family on Saturday 8th October at 4.00pm, celebrating the past 70 years with words and music. If you have an item to perform, please contact Margaret Burns at mburnsviolin@hotmail.com by Sunday 18th September.  We would also love to put together a display of groups taking place within the parish. Please contact Margaret if you run a group which could be included in the

 

 

 

NEWSLETTER ITEMS FROM THE JUSTICE & PEACE GROUP WEEK COMMENCING 2-10-22

CAFOD Family Fast Day Second Collection Next Sunday 9^th Oct – will go towards the World food crisis appeal. Millions of families are facing a food crisis that could be the worst in living memory. Your donations can help CAFOD’s local experts to provide emergency food supplies to families in the worst affected countries in East Africa and support communities around the world working hard to put food on the table. Please take an envelope today from on the seats and return it next Sunday or you can give via the card readers as from next Sun, otherwise online at cafod.org.uk/giveyou can also give through the  QR code on the envelope & posters.  Please fill in the Gift Aid section on the envelope if a UK taxpayer.  There’s information on the envelope and online how to start a monthly donation to CAFOD.

 

Season of Creation continues until 4thOct St Francis’s day. To keep updated about what’s happening around the world see https://seasonofcreation.org/

 

Live Simply Tip of the Week.  Bus passes for pensioners & people with disabilities. Many in this category have yet to apply and now could be the time with the coming rise in fuel bills and the current climate emergency. Passes are free of charged and can be obtained from West Sussex CC.  Apply online at www.westsussex.gov.uk/buses or phone 033 022 26222. Another way to get to church!

The Centre for Sustainable Energy (CSE) has put together an excellent blog with some great practical advice to help you prepare for the winter ahead amid the biggest price rise in energy bills in decades:
https://www.cse.org.uk/news/view/2716

 

There will be an evening of entertainment at Holy Family on Saturday 8th October at 4.00pm, celebrating the past 70 years with words and music. If you have an item to perform, please contact Margaret Burns at mburnsviolin@hotmail.com by Sunday 18th September.  We would also love to put together a display of groups taking place within the parish. Please contact Margaret if you run a group which could be included in the

 

 

 

INVEST IN A FAIRER WORLD It is a difficult time financially for many people at present but for those in the poorest countries life is a daily struggle for survival. If you are fortunate enough to have, or about to make, investments there is a way of not only making a financial return for yourself but also to have the satisfaction of supporting farmers & producers in poor countries to trade their way out of poverty. ‘Shared Interest‘ has for many years provided finance & created opportunities for individuals & organisations across the globe to make better lives for themselves. If you want to invest in a fairer world do pick up their leaflet from the back of both churches

 

A WORTHING4REFUGEES APPEAL.  A Ukrainian refugee who came to Worthing from the war zone is struggling with thyroid cancer. Her husband can legally leave Ukraine to come to be with his wife, but there is not enough space for him where she is sponsored. We are looking for a sponsor who can accommodate the husband under the ‘Homes for Ukraine’ programme. He is in his 40s and speaks English. It most likely will be a short stay as he plans to get job ASAP and somewhere for all the family to live together. He used to work in London so he has good prospects for finding a job. The existing sponsor accommodating the lady (and her child) is willing to help a new sponsor with paperwork, etc.  If you can help, please contact krumgoldelena@gmail.com

 

Live Simply Tip of the Week Careful with your washing You can save around £28 a year from your energy bill just by using your washing machine more carefully: Use your washing machine on a 30-degree cycle instead of higher temperatures and always wait for a full load.

 

Season of Creation continues until 4^th Oct.  To keep updated about what’s happening around the world see https://seasonofcreation.org/