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Your parish SVP has a few events going on over the coming days to highlight: Gifted, the SVP shop, will be open this weekend after every mass with a selection of cards and gifts. Our bereavement group is gathering on Wednesday, after the 10am Mass, in the church hall. And, next weekend, the B-Attitude Group will host a cake sale to celebrate the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee, raising funds for their initiatives including activities at Brackenbridge House Care Home and a Hillingdon Homeless shelter.

Gifted, the SVP shop, will be opening next weekend, a bit early this month to make way for a cake sale to celebrate the Queens Platinum Jubilee the following weekend. There are a few feasts days in June: The Most Sacred Heart of Jesus, St Anthony and Our Lady of Perpetual Help. We will have items to mark these, as well as the usual gifts and cards.

As always, if you come across anyone who needs help or a visit from an SVP member, please do not hesitate to contact your SVP team and we will do our best to help.

The SVP received some great news this week: Visitors are now welcome again at Brackenbridge Care Home! Before the pandemic, the SVP and B-Attitudes visited Brackenbridge on a weekly basis, building some great relationships with the residents. During the pandemic, we have kept in touch by sending weekly DVDs of mass as well as sending Christmas gifts for all residents and staff. We will resume our visits soon.

There is a little bit of sadness in that only two of the residents we visited remain at the home, the rest having passed away. Covid hit them hard.

The B-Attitudes, the group for our younger members of our parish’s SVP, spent their latest meeting sorting out and bagging up all of the stamps you donated for the RNIB (Royal National Institute for the Blind). They filled two very large envelopes and these have now been posted to the RNIB, where it will be used to support blind and partially sighted people in our community. We have asked for another collection box for the church porch. Thank you for your continued support of this very worthy organisation.

The SVP is looking for additional help. If you speak a foreign language, and can spare an hour or so on occasional Saturdays, we would really appreciate your assistance. We are also looking for drivers for occasional deliveries. If you have a small van or larger car, that would be perfect.

There will be an SVP member in the porch after every mass this weekend. They will make themselves known to you. Please stop by and give them your details and we will be in touch.