Vinnie Packs
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!