SJF Harvest Appeal 2024
6th Oct 2024
Preparations are underway for our annual Harvest Mass, which will take place on Friday 18th October 2024 starting at 10.00am at Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Church. Everyone is invited to join us.
Our young Chaplains will discuss plans for the collection of food items for the St Wilfrid’s Centre, as part of our Harvest Festival celebrations.
The St Wilfrid’s Centre is a special community that cares for the most vulnerable people in our city, including homeless and socially excluded adults. It provides a safe space where they are welcomed with compassion and understanding. There they can receive practical advice and assistance as well experiencing a sense of belonging; and the support needed to help them regain their self-esteem and sense of worth.
If you would like to support us, it is important that donated food is non-perishable. Items such as tins/jars of meat, fish, soup, vegetables and fruit; packets of cereals, dried ‘Pot Noodle’-type products, biscuits, hot chocolate, tea and coffee, UHT milk, instant mashed potato, pasta, pasta sauce, rice and dried noodles, tea and coffee and any other nutritional items that have a long shelf life are ideal. Basically, anything tinned, dried or in jars (with long ‘use-by’ dates) would be perfect.
Donations can be left by children in the hall or by parents/carers in the main foyer, from Monday 7th October 2024 and right up to Friday 18th October 2024.
In these challenging times, it is inevitable that some in our own school and wider communities will become vulnerable. This appeal is therefore important, so thank you in anticipation of your generous support.
