Social Action Adviser
Specialist Adviser: Awaiting Appointment
Priest Adviser: Fr Brian Lowden
Office: DABCEC
The Relationship Between Social Action and Justice and Peace
See article by Fiona Reader on page 5 published in April 2007 A&B NEWS.
Caritas - Social Action
The Catholic Bishops Conference Social Action webpage can be found at
www.caritas-socialaction.org.uk Campaigning
Becoming a Fairtrade Diocese
Asylum Seekers
Gatwick Detainees Welfare Group
At any one time there are over 120 immigration detainees held at Tinsley House, Gatwick. The Gatwick Detainees Welfare Group visit as many as they can, and are always looking for volunteer support and funds and monetary donations for their destitution fund. They also collect toiletries and clothing that make life a little more bearable in detention. GDWG are recruiting volunteers twice a year. Contact Pascale Noel Co-ordinator of GDWG on 01293 434350 or visit the website for more information on www.gdwg.org.uk
DIOCESAN PASTORAL CARE SERVICE FOR DEAF AND HARD OF HEARING PEOPLE
Director and Chaplain:
Fr Raglan Hay-Will
Diocesan Committee for Deaf and Hard of Hearing People:
Chair: Mrs. Maria Booker, 3 Sandy Vale, Haywards Heath, West Sussex RHI6 4JH.
Tel: Haywards Heath (01444) 451381. [Voice and Minicom].
The pastoral service reaches out to hearing-impaired people by creating an awareness to their needs. This can be done by each one of us when we meet people who are hard-of-hearing. Maybe we need to pluck up a little more courage to speak to someone who is hard-of-hearing when we see them in church or meet them when we are out shopping.
Outside the Diocese we work together with the national and regional teams of the RC Service for Deaf People.
Signed Masses
the readings, prayers and hymns are specially prepared so they can be signed and understood by all. Some of our deaf people celebrate with sign the prayers and readings as we focus on the Word of God.
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 ADVISOR
Rev D. Foley
THE CATHOLIC CHILDREN'S SOCIETY
The Catholic Children's Society is the Church's professional child care Organisation in the three Diocese of Arundel and Brighton, Portsmouth and Southwark.
Visit the Catholic Childrens Society Webpage at www.cathchild.org
The Society has residential homes for children and young people including the Littlehampton Residential Homeflnding Unit within the Diocese. It offers counselling to parents faced with the decision to bring up children, or opt for adoption. It arranges adoption of infants and of children with special needs and prepares older children, deprived of their family life, for a new permanent family. Advice and help is given to families with members who have disabilities. It has an educational programme offered to Catholic Schools to help make children more aware of and sympathetic to the less fortunate around them and more appreciative of the value of stable family life.
Director: Mr. Terence Connor, M.A.
Chaplain: Rev. Peter Madden.
Head Office, 49 Russell Hill Road,
Purley, Surrey CR2 2XB.
Tel: 020 8668 2181.
Fax: 020 8763 2274.
