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FUNDRAISING EVENTS Christmas
Concert,
Friday 18th Dec 6.30pm Serving
the Homeless is pleased to announce that our
annual Christmas Concert has gone online this
year! On
Friday 18th December you will
be able to access it via YouTube. (details
will be on Our Lady of Lourdes website). You
should
then be able to revisit the recording as often
as you like. We were able to film at Our Lady of
Lourdes and the other churches involved in
‘Serving the
Homeless’ during October, thanks to Tim Browne.
He kindly offered his services
to film the various participants and then edit
it into a film for us. We hope
that you will find it a wonderful way to start
your Christmas celebrations; our
thanks to all the clergy and parishioners who
took part. Over
the years STH has raised hundreds of thousands
of
pounds to support local projects. It supported
the development of the Day and
Night Shelter that was eventually to become HARP
raising £70,000 to buy the
freehold of the Valkyrie Road site and later
sponsoring two rooms at the new
Bradbury Centre at a cost of £10,000. It
purchased properties used by Acorn and
more recently by HARP to house clients.
It spends £250 per month on food used to
provide meals for the homeless
at the Bradbury Centre. It financed the start-up
costs of 3 of the Churches
winter shelters; it has supported numerous
individuals with temporary
accommodation, travel expenses and equipment.
It has supported the development of
accommodation for young people by
Southend YMCA. Even during the recent pandemic,
it has continued to finance
Westcliff SVP society in providing meals for the
100 rough sleepers put into
temporary accommodation by Southend Council. We
are also providing turkeys for
Christmas lunches at the HARP properties and
delivering Christmas parcels to all
the young people at the YMCA over Christmas. At
Christmas, our Carol concert is normally
followed by
mulled wine and mince pies. However, this year
we ask you to embrace technology
and join us from home, although you may like to
have your mince pies and wine
to hand! We
wish you all the blessings of the Christmas
season and
looking forward to greeting you properly in the
not too distant future
Stay Safe!
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