In your parish
We work with people from parishes across Greater Manchester and Lancashire in many different ways – providing support and resources, working with them to help people in their local community, aiding their fundraising activities in support of our charity, and guiding those interested in becoming Caritas Parish Reps or Accessibility Advocates too.
Become a Caritas Parish Rep:
Parish Reps are an essential part of Caritas’ strategy to enable love in action in all our parishes; so that we can continue to build bridges between each parish and Caritas, and for you to become an integral part of strengthening the link between faith and action.
What you will be doing:
- Keeping your parish updated on Caritas events and news through putting up posters and speaking at Mass
- Arranging for Caritas staff or volunteers to visit your parish to speak about our work and opportunities
- Supporting our fundraising appeals
- Sharing resources and tools with interested parishioners to help them engage in social action
- Identifying and encouraging possible social action projects within your community or encourage engagement with action already taking place. If you are interested you can apply online now.
We are also keen to hear from people in local parishes who might be interested in becoming volunteer Accessibility Advocates.
Need more information on Parish Reps or Accessibility Advocates roles? Get in touch! Our details are below.
Find out about social action activity happening in your area:
Our Diocese of Salford social action map highlights key activities happening in communities across Greater Manchester and Lancashire.
Take a look at what’s happening in your area now, and please get in touch via the details below if there’s activity near you that we could consider adding too.
Resources
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Signposting support for people in Blackburn
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Signposting support for people in Bolton
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Signposting support for people in Burnley
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Signposting support for people in Bury and Rochdale
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Signposting support for people in north Manchester
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Signposting support for people in Oldham and Ashton Under Lyne
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Signposting support for people in south Manchester
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Become a Caritas Parish Rep Leaflet
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Caritas Prayer and Key Dates for your Diary
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Community sponsorship and your parish
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Compassion in your community resource
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Human dignity and homelessness resource
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Parish Accessibility Review Sample Form
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Prayers about homelessness
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Setting up a warm hub in your community
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Refugee Week Poster
Join Our Advocacy Campaigns: Help us to tackle injustice in our communities by joining us in local advocacy campaigning
Get in touch
If you need more information on how Caritas could work alongside your parish community, or if you have ideas on how you’d like to support our charity we’d love to hear from you:
Caritas House, 4 Nobby Stiles Drive, Collyhurst, Manchester M4 4FA.
Telephone: 0161 817 2250
Email: info@caritassalford.org.uk
Tag us
Don’t forget to share with us all the great social action and fundraising activities your parish engages in. We’d love to see what you’re up to.