Social Action Advisers
Specialist Adviser: Susan O'Brien
susan.obrien@dabnet.org
01293 515666
The Social Concerns Office is based at DABCEC
Priest Adviser: Canon Seamus Hester
Caritas - Social Action
The Catholic Bishops Conference Social Action webpage can be found at
www.caritas-socialaction.org.uk Campaigning
Becoming a Fairtrade Diocese
Racial Justice Charter
Dementia
Do you remember what you had for Breakfast?
22nd September 2012 at DABCEC, 4 Southgate Drive, Crawley RH10 6RP
Day of awareness raising on dementia, with guest speaker Dr. Viktor Pace from St. Christopher's Hospice, Sydenham and the Cicely Saunders Institute. There will be discussion groups and a panel including representatives from Age UK, the Alzheimer's Society, the NHS and the Carers Association.
Healthcare Workers - doctors, nurses, careworkers, porters, administrative and support staff
Bishop Kieran will be celebrating a Mass for Healthcare Workers on 24th November 2012 at The Friary, Haslett Avenue West, Crawley, RH10 1HR at 12.15.
We are also organising a forum, open to healthcare workers but also to anyone else interested, at Our Lady of Sorrows Parish Centre, Hislop Walk, Bognor Regis, PO21 1LP on Saturday 14th July at 2-5pm.
We are very lucky to have Fr. Alexander Lucie-Smith as our keynote speaker on "The Sacred and the Secular - must they always be at war?"
Please come to continue the discussion on the theme of 'Keeping the Faith in a Secular World'.
Asylum Seekers
We are holding a Day of Reflection for all those who work with asylum seekers and refugees on 13th October 2012 at Worth Abbey. This will be led by Father Paul Fleetwood and will begin at 9.30 and finish about 4 o'clock. Please contact me to book a place - the Day is free of charge but prior booking is essential. There will be a bring and share lunch. This is a way of thanking all those who undertake this challenging and vital work, and giving them an opportunity for some spiritual refreshment. Contact Susan.OBrien@dabnet.org or telephone Ruth Gerun on 01293 651164
Gatwick Detainees Welfare Group
At any one time there are over 550 immigration detainees held at Brook House and Tinsley House, Gatwick. The Gatwick Detainees Welfare Group has over 70 volunteers who visit and befriend detainees. GDWG welcomes volunteer support and funds as well as monetary donations for their destitution fund. They also collect clothing that makes life a little more bearable in detention. GDWG often recruit visiting volunteers. Contact Nic Eadie, Co-ordinator of GDWG on 01293 434350 for more information or visit the website on www.gdwg.org.uk.
Brighton Voices in Exile
Brighton Voices in Exile is a faith based response to asylum seekers and refugees, which works to provide advice, food and care for asylum seekers and refugees in Brighton, from St. Mary Magdalene's Church, 55 Upper North Street, Brighton, BN1 3FH. Contact Mary Jane Burkett for more information at bvie@hotmail.co.uk or look at the website www.brightonvoicesinexile.org
Diocesan Coordinators and Communicators for Deaf and Hard of Hearing People: Mr Peter Booker and Mrs Maria Booker, c/o DABCEC, 4 Southgate Drive, Crawley, West Sussex RH10 6RP.
Email: casamariapita@aol.com Mobile: 07970 428601(sms [text] only) Tel: Mr Jim Mortell on 01273 552159 [Voice]
For full details of their work click here
GENERAL INFORMATION
Housing Justice
Website of Housing Justice, the U.K. housing and homelessness charity formed by the merger of the Catholic Housing Aid Society CHAS and Churches National Housing Coalitition CNHC
www.housingjustice.org.uk
The Apostleship Of The Sea
www.stellamaris.net
HOSPITAL CHAPLAINCY ADVISER
Rev D. Foley
THE CABRINI CHILDREN'S SOCIETY
A social welfare charity providing wide-ranging services to children, young families and adults with learning disabilities. Its mission is to encourage, inspire and support evey individual with whom it works to find their way in the world.
Visit the Cabrini Children's Society Webpage at www.cabrini.org.uk
Director: Mr. Terence Connor, M.A.
Head Office, 49 Russell Hill Road,
Purley, Surrey CR2 2XB.
Tel: 020 8668 2181.
Fax: 020 8763 2274.
