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The Young Persons SVP Team have been busy again! Last Sunday, a number of them, accompanied by some adult SVP members, helped prepare and pack ‘Vinnie-Packs’ for the homeless in the UK.

Each winter, for the last 10 years, a small team of SVP members in the Westminster Diocese procure, pack and distribute 11,500 Vinnie-Packs throughout the UK. Each pack contains a woolie hat, a pair of woolen gloves, 2 pairs of socks, toothbrush, toothpaste and wet wipes and a pen and paper with some useful Helpline numbers. Our volunteers made up approx 500 packs on Sunday and these were then distributed, as part of a bigger load, by SVP volunteer drivers on Monday and Tuesday!

Around this time each year, the SVP conferences in the Westminster diocese work on a common project known as ‘Vinnie Packs’. A ‘Vinnie Pack’ is basically a small bag that contains essential items for a homeless person in winter time. It contains such things as a thermal hat, thermal gloves, 2 pairs of thermal socks, toothbrush and paste, wetwipes, copy of Pavement magazine, a pen and an information sheet with useful numbers. 11,500 Vinnie packs need to be assembled ahead of winter.