Supporting Fast Days and
other fundraising activityCAFOD IN HALLAM
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CAFOD Hallam
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CAFOD in Hallam is based in the offices at St William of York Church, Ecclesall Road, Sheffield S11 8TL. Our aim is to promote CAFOD’s work across the Diocese and enable the Catholic community to become more closely involved with CAFOD’s work.
Our team of staff and volunteers are ready to help with fund-raising ideas, information and analysis, resources for parishes, schools and youth groups, campaigning insights and expertise, and with speaking at Mass or other organised events.
THE DIOCESAN TEAM
Angela Powell is the Diocesan Manager, organising and coordinating CAFOD’s work in the diocese. Helen Desforges is the CAFOD Diocesan Officer who supports volunteers and manages the CAFOD office. We are helped in the office by volunteers Maria Snelson and Joyce Arnold who do tasks such as processing donations and keeping our database up-to-date.
The CAFOD team works closely with a network of parish and school volunteers, and other local groups such as the Justice & Peace commission, The Trade Justice Movement and Fair Trade networks. CAFOD is always eager to work with groups promoting justice for the poor in witness to Christian faith, guided by gospel values and the Church’s social teaching.
HALLAM CORE TEAM: Pat Battams, Anna Green, John Green, Maria Kenyon, Andy Ogley, Anne Peacey, Lucy Slater, Tony Singleton, Charlie Withall and Angela Wood work with Angela and Helen to plan and promote CAFOD’s work in the Hallam Diocese. Currently we are focussing on CAFOD’s Climate Justice Campaign. CAFOD believes that now is the time to act on climate change. It is the moral responsibility of everyone to protect that environment that has brought us so many cultural, social and financial riches. It is also an issue of justice as the poorest are hit hardest and least able to cope with the effects of climate change which are already having a profound impact on our world. Sustaining the hope that we, and our governments, can overcome the massive problem of climate change is a challenge. And it would be easy to succumb to despair and apathy. It is time for us all to work for the common good and to act on climate change. For more on this campaign visit www.cafod.org.uk.climate-change/time-to-act
HALLAM SCHOOLS TEAM: Anne Peacey and Andy Ogley work in our schools. They help children and young people understand the issues surrounding CAFOD’s work, raising awareness of global justice and issues which trap people in poverty. John Green works helping teachers with access to the many school’s resources provided on-line by CAFOD. We also work closely with In Reality – the Diocesan Youth peer ministry team who work in schools and with youth groups on issues of global justice.
VOLUNTEERING: If you would like to offer some of your time to work on behalf of the poor by helping CAFOD, either in your parish or as part of the diocesan team, we would like to hear from you. Please contact us by phone on 0114 2687817, or email hallam@cafod.org.uk
You can help publicise events in your church, or if you have more time why not become a Parish Contact?
Parish Contacts play a vital role. The job can be as demanding or as easy as you choose to make it – and you can share the workload with a group of other volunteers in the parish. Parish contacts agree to undertake one or more tasks, including:
Supporting Fast Days and
other fundraising activity
Responding to Emergency
appeals
Promoting campaigns within
the parish so parishioners can support CAFOD campaigns through postcard signing
or writing to local MPs to encourage change. (You can act now on climate
justice by visiting
http://www.cafod.org.uk/take-action/climate/climate-justice )
WHAT CAN CAFOD OFFER?
Staff and volunteers can provide you with a great range of materials and support for your parish, youth group or school. We can supply:
Worship resources for
planning pilgrimages, Confirmation, liturgies, vigils, Advent and Carol services
Display materials, posters,
prayer cards, PowerPoint Presentations, envelopes and collection boxes for
fundraising
Sponsorship forms for
fundraising events like the May Day Trek, Great North Run or London Marathon
Materials for promoting
legacies for CAFOD
Ideas for holding CAFOD
evenings for supporters to hear a visiting speaker – perhaps one of CAFOD’s
overseas partners who will speak of their experience in working with CAFOD or a
volunteer or staff member.
Advise about organizing and
holding events from our team at CAFOD Head Office
EVENTS
For information about planned events, please contact the Hallam office on 0114 2687817, or email hallam@cafod.org.uk
MAY DAY TREK 2009
Please consider supporting this annual sponsored walk run by CAFOD and Christian Aid on Bank Holiday Monday 4th March. The sponsored walk is great fun to get together to enjoy the beauty of Sheffield’s countryside, and to raise money and walk in solidarity with poorest communities of the developing world
Event Centre Bolsterstones
Parish Hall
Guided and marshaled walks to
suit all ages and abilities around the stunning Bolsterstones area. 5-, 10- and
15-mile walks available
Refreshments at the Village
Hall and en route
Trek led-off at 10 am with a
prayer by Bishop John
Walkers can set off from
10.00 to 10.45 am
REGISTRATION AND SPONSORSHIP:
Get Registration forms in advance by contacting Helen Desforges 0114 2687817, email hallam@cafod.org.uk, or go to www.Sheffieldmaydaytrek.org.uk for more information and registration forms. Tick the CAFOD box and you will receive a useful Sponsored events at CAFOD folder
REMEMBER EVERY STEP WE TAKE TOGETHER IS A STEP FORWARD IN CAFOD’S AIM TO ELIMINATE POVERTY THROUGHOUT THE WORLD ACTION FOR CLIMATE JUSTICE.
What can you do?
Be informed about the
issues. Go to
www.cafod.org for lots of useful information
Watch out for the Climate
Justice campaign actions. You can act now on line
www.cafod.org.uk/take-action/climate/climate-justice
Sign the action postcards
from the end of March and send them to the Prime Minister
Go to a Climate Justice
event. There will be events in our area and around the country to promote the
Climate Justice Campaign. Watch this space, the Hallam News and our CAFOD
Newsletter for more details as they are finalized. These will all lead up to
the big rally in London in December to put pressure for effective action by
governments attending the Climate Change conference in Copenhagen on 5th
December
Go to
www.cafod.org.uk/news/events-climate-2009-01-27 to find out what is going on
around the country.