Charity

Opportunities in our Parish

Volunteers required for 11 O’clock mass

Volunteers, who need to complete DBS Checks, are still needed to be involved in leading children at the 11 O’ clock mass. We would like to start the children’s program in October.

Contact the Parish using the contact page if you would like to be involved.

Flower Arranging

St Winefride’s Flower team is a group of volunteers who make the flower arrangements the church every week throughout the year (except Advent and Lent).

We are currently in need of more volunteers to join us. No experience is needed, but experience is welcomed. You need to like flowers and be able to spare around 2 hours once a month. Come join us in this lovely way to get involved with our Parish.

If you would like to know more, or would like to give it a try without any commitment, please contact Amy and Alice via the Contact Us form.

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Christian Care Merton

Can you pass the IKEA test?!

Christian Care Merton – the local charity that helps families and individuals in difficulties – has revised its ‘furniture project’.

It is going to provide new flat-pack rather than second hand furniture to clients. Many of our parishioners volunteer in various capacities; would you like to help by assembling furniture?

Contact Graham Bennett on 0779-269-9948.

Community Kitchen

Dons Local action group are in partnership with Holy Trinity Church, 234 the Broadway have a community kitchen from 7 to 8 pm Saturdays and Sundays inviting you to join with soup rolls, fruit, water and snacks.

Help London’s Pro-Life Pregnancy Centre Stay Open

The Good Counsel Network’s funds are dangerously low. They offer expectant mums help with housing, financial assistance, legal, and medical support, baby goods and clothes, advice, and ongoing support long after the baby is born.

If they run out of funds, they cannot continue to help dozens of mothers keep a roof over their heads.

Go to their website page for more details

A Spiritual Visit to the Sick

The Catholic Chaplaincy at St George’s Hospital invites those who are willing to join in praying for the sick at the Chapel of St George’s hospital.

Major hospitals are a kind of liminal space where heaven come close to earth as many people face their mortality at the alter of suffering. Here, so many are rightly “anxious and troubled about many things”. Yet “one thing is necessary” still – prayer (Cf. Luke 10:41).

If you can, of your charity, please consider joining in these mornings of prayer for those in need.

🕐 Times:

10:30am Quiet Adoration
11:30am Benediction followed by rosary
12pm Mass for Patients, Staff, Students, Volunteers and Visitors

📅 Every Thursday

📍 Chapel of St George’s Hospital Tooting.

Local hospitals note:

Due to privacy legislation, do not visit patients unless requested directly through the ward or indirectly by request.

If you know you or a next of kin will be in hospital and would benefit from the Chaplain’s visit he will respond to requests or via parish priests.

Police Presentation

A recent presentation by the Police to the Ministers of the area, from Catholic to Hindu made two important points. Victim support now includes victim contact, keeping victims informed of an impending trial as well as supporting them.

A second point was the need for advocates to support victims in phrasing their stories and also appropriate adults to help Police process young adults they are investigating. Both of these can be done by people in the parish. Please contact Fr Simon if you are interested.