The ASHA
Asha supports asylum seekers to live in safety and with dignity. We promote the social integration of asylum seekers and refugees. There is a collection box in church for items needed regularly.
Food items required (in date please!) include:
dried pasta, Basmati rice, tinned sweetcorn/tomatoes/tuna in oil/chickpeas, biscuits, jam, long-life milk, sunflower cooking oil.
Other items needed: toiletries for women and men; sanitary products; household items including cleaning products, e.g washing up, laundry washing etc.
Please place your donations in the boxes in church. Many thanks for your help. For more information see:
https://asha-uk.org/
Latest reports from Asha are uploaded regularly onto our blog section.
Whispers of Hope
This is a charity set up by our sisters (the Sisters of Mercy) helping women who suffer abuse and have complex immigration issues. For more information, click here for the leaflet.
SVP Group
Our parish has an SVP group to help those who need it in any way. Our current activities include supporting ASHA with delivery of food and clothing, visiting the sick and housebound at home or in residential care, and co-ordinating with the Fr Hudson's Support Worker for our local schools to offer practical and financial help to vulnerable families. One of our members is involved with Linkline, the telephone befriending service. Our SVP Conference has links with two villages in India. We correspond with them and give financial help.
Our SVP group is involved in maintaining contact with elderly or vulnerable people or those in residential homes, in short anyone, who would welcome a friendly chat or support of any kind. If you know of anyone in any sort of need, we would be most grateful if you could give their names to Canon Paul or to one of our members, provided they of course, agree to you passing on their details. All information will be treated with the strictest confidentiality
Please contact the parish if wish to volunteer.
CAFOD News
Thank you for your generous support of the Starving World donation box. We were able to send a total of £822.56 to CAFOD for the first six months of 2025.
For the latest news from CAFOD see CAFOD - Catholic international development charity
or to find out how you can be more involved, speak to local CAFOD representative Phil Mayland.
Asha supports asylum seekers to live in safety and with dignity. We promote the social integration of asylum seekers and refugees. There is a collection box in church for items needed regularly.
Food items required (in date please!) include:
dried pasta, Basmati rice, tinned sweetcorn/tomatoes/tuna in oil/chickpeas, biscuits, jam, long-life milk, sunflower cooking oil.
Other items needed: toiletries for women and men; sanitary products; household items including cleaning products, e.g washing up, laundry washing etc.
Please place your donations in the boxes in church. Many thanks for your help. For more information see:
https://asha-uk.org/
Latest reports from Asha are uploaded regularly onto our blog section.
Whispers of Hope
This is a charity set up by our sisters (the Sisters of Mercy) helping women who suffer abuse and have complex immigration issues. For more information, click here for the leaflet.
SVP Group
Our parish has an SVP group to help those who need it in any way. Our current activities include supporting ASHA with delivery of food and clothing, visiting the sick and housebound at home or in residential care, and co-ordinating with the Fr Hudson's Support Worker for our local schools to offer practical and financial help to vulnerable families. One of our members is involved with Linkline, the telephone befriending service. Our SVP Conference has links with two villages in India. We correspond with them and give financial help.
Our SVP group is involved in maintaining contact with elderly or vulnerable people or those in residential homes, in short anyone, who would welcome a friendly chat or support of any kind. If you know of anyone in any sort of need, we would be most grateful if you could give their names to Canon Paul or to one of our members, provided they of course, agree to you passing on their details. All information will be treated with the strictest confidentiality
Please contact the parish if wish to volunteer.
CAFOD News
Thank you for your generous support of the Starving World donation box. We were able to send a total of £822.56 to CAFOD for the first six months of 2025.
For the latest news from CAFOD see CAFOD - Catholic international development charity
or to find out how you can be more involved, speak to local CAFOD representative Phil Mayland.
A Live Simply parish...
Holy Trinity achieved the CAFOD Live Simply Award in March 2018.
Two CAFOD assessors, Abigail McMillan and Tessa Wyatt, visited the parish to meet the Live Simply team and look at the evidence of our efforts during the past couple of years. They were very impressed and agreed that we have merited the Award.
They were also impressed by the many ongoing activities in the Parish which were not included in our original submission.
For example, the support for many charities; the monthly Quiz which supports local charities; the work of the S.V.P.; the U.C.M.; the Ladies Guild;
Archbishop Bernard, in his Advent pastoral letter (2017), wrote that he wanted all parishes to join this scheme, which is in response to Pope Francis’ encyclical Laudato Si’ to “work with generosity and tenderness in protecting this world which God has entrusted to us”.
Today, Pope Francis’ encyclical Laudato Si’ re-inspires us to respond to the ‘cry of the earth and the cry of the poor’ and to act to address poverty and to care for creation.
For more information visit:
Holy Trinity achieved the CAFOD Live Simply Award in March 2018.
Two CAFOD assessors, Abigail McMillan and Tessa Wyatt, visited the parish to meet the Live Simply team and look at the evidence of our efforts during the past couple of years. They were very impressed and agreed that we have merited the Award.
They were also impressed by the many ongoing activities in the Parish which were not included in our original submission.
For example, the support for many charities; the monthly Quiz which supports local charities; the work of the S.V.P.; the U.C.M.; the Ladies Guild;
Archbishop Bernard, in his Advent pastoral letter (2017), wrote that he wanted all parishes to join this scheme, which is in response to Pope Francis’ encyclical Laudato Si’ to “work with generosity and tenderness in protecting this world which God has entrusted to us”.
Today, Pope Francis’ encyclical Laudato Si’ re-inspires us to respond to the ‘cry of the earth and the cry of the poor’ and to act to address poverty and to care for creation.
For more information visit:
- Live_Simply_Guide_for_web.pdf (cafod.org.uk)
- Click here for an explanation of the Live Simply award.
