By John Battle, Chair of the Commission Pope Francis who has established the Church’s World Day of Prayer for the Poor three years ago has announced the theme for this […]
UK Poverty
14 Apr – Family Poverty workshops, could your parish participate?
Our workshops about Family Poverty (Family Poverty: A Diocese Acts) are now ready to be rolled out to more parishes. In his Foreword to the Facilitator Workshop pack, Bishop Marcus […]
19 Dec – Live Simply Updates from across the Diocese
CAFOD’s Live Simply Award scheme is starting to take off across the country and, slowly but surely, across the Leeds Diocese as well. Here are some brief updates on parishes […]
18 Dec – Pilots of J&P Family Poverty Workshops Underway
The Commission has been trialling some materials funded by the Society of the Holy Child Jesus and developed for us by Church Action on Poverty – a series of five […]
05 Sep – Family Poverty Parish Programme update
We are working with Church Action on Poverty to produce a series of 5 meetings to be undertaken in parish groups to explore issues of family poverty. We now have […]
25 July – Family Poverty: Food bank Shortages and Holiday Hunger
As the long Summer holidays start and people go on holiday, contributions to foodbanks tend to dip. However, this is going on whilst, at the same time there is a […]
12 Jun – Family Poverty Project update
As previously reported, the Commission has obtained a grant from the Society of the Holy Child Jesus to follow up our workshop about Family Poverty with a programme of small […]