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The SVP at St Gregory’s had its monthly meeting this week. We discussed our various activities, including the bereavement care group, the B-Attitudes, the SVP shop (Gifted), the food bank, visiting those in care homes and visiting people at home.

If you think there is something here you would like to get involved in, please chat to one of our SVP members or contact us.

As always, please keep on eye on each other. If you or someone you know would like to have a chat with the SVP, please do not hesitate to reach out. We will always try our best to help.

As we head into June, the SVP has a few things going on. This weekend our shop, Gifted, will be open. Please stop by and browse our many religious gifts and cards for all occasions. The bereavement care group will meet on Wednesday in the church hall at 10.30. Please pop in for a cuppa and a chat.

As always please keep on eye on each other and if you or someone you know would like to have a chat with the SVP please do not hesitate to reach out. We will always try our best to help.

It was lovely to see the buzz of activity around our fund-raising shop, Gifted, last weekend. This has become a regular source of income for the SVP Team since we started this initiative and your support is always gratefully received.

Our parish is blessed to have an SVP Team as well as a B-Attitudes Team (i.e., SVP for secondary school age volunteers). Did you know, though, that we also have a Mini-Vinnies Team at St Swithun Wells? An SVP grown-up recently attended the Mini-Vinnies Summer Term 1 progress meeting. They comprise of 10 energetic students from Years 4, 5 and 6 and do some lovely work throughout the year to address issues of social justice.

We held our monthly meeting on Monday evening and, as expected, it was a full agenda. It marked the end of the reporting year so we were able to reflect on our efforts over the past 12 months.

The statistics are impressive and if you’d like to see a draft copy of those then you can read and study the copy that is on the SVP noticeboard in the church porch. It is really humbling to have your support, as this is what allows us to achieve these results. We hope that you do read, and study, the numbers and, then, if that inspires you to ‘Turn Concern Into Action’ simply approach any SVP member or contact us as per below.

The SVP team have our monthly meeting on Monday evening and it promises to be another full agenda! We continue to receive amazing support from you and the wider community and examples of this are local schools, shops and other businesses who regularly replenish our food bank supplies by using some lovely initiatives.

We visited one such primary school last week to say ‘Thank You’ and the level of intelligent and compassionate questions that the Year 5 students had about our work was inspiring. The power of the Holy Spirit is clearly at work amongst us and we are really blessed to know that.