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It’s the time of year when daily school and work routines take a break for the summer holidays, but please remember that the SVP team is always around and on standby to help.

Our regular activities remain in place: the food bank is open every Saturday. Our fundraising shop, ‘Gifted’, will be open next weekend (Aug. 1-2). Our bereavement support group meets on the first Wednesday of the month (Aug. 5) at 10:30am. We also have other regular activities that may not be so visible, such as home and care home visits to the lonely and vulnerable.

The school holidays are just around the corner, so many young people will have time on their hands over the coming weeks. If you are between 11 and 18 years of age and are looking for a new hobby, new friends, or new experiences, consider joining our B-Attitudes team. The team meets monthly in the church hall. They come up with ideas for helping those in need in our community and then set about putting those ideas into action.

The four pillars of the SVP, globally as well as locally, are caring for the lonely, the sick, the poor and the imprisoned. Most SVP teams, known as ‘conferences’, are based around these four needs, and visiting the lonely and vulnerable in the community has traditionally been, and remains, one of the core activities of many conferences.

Your local conference is no different! In this spell of hot weather, please keep an eye on your vulnerable neighbours and please let them know that they are being thought about. Many of you do this already as part of your daily life, and this is brilliant. If any extra help is needed, though, and if you think that the SVP may be able to help out, then please do not hesitate to contact us. We’ll always do our best.

Thank you to everyone who supported our fundraising shop, known as ‘Gifted’, last weekend. We hope you found what you were looking for. If you didn’t, please ask us and we’ll do our best to source it.

With exams coming to an end and school holidays looming, if any young people would like to take up volunteering, ask us about it. Volunteering is a great character-building opportunity and will strengthen any personal statement you may need to write in the future. Have a think, and if the idea grabs you, please get in touch with any of us.

This Sunday is the first of the month, which is when we open our SVP shop, known as “Gifted”. We will be running Gifted before and after all masses this weekend and we hope you’ll pop along to take a look. If you can’t see the item you have in mind then just have a chat with us and we’ll try and source it for you.

And, given that we are still in Volunteers’ Week, if you would like to help us run Gifted then you can have a chat about that with us also!