Catholic Care is a faith based charity which has been providing services to anyone who is disadvantaged, vulnerable or marginalised across West and parts of North Yorkshire for over 150 years. We work without prejudice and support families and individuals of all faiths and none. We also employ people of all faiths or no faith Read More

Tesco Community Cookery School with a little help from Jamie Oliver comes to Catholic Care! In partnership with Jamie Oliver and FareShare, Tesco’s Community Cookery School is an amazing initiative to promote cookery skills and healthy eating. Sue Parsons has completed her training so that we were able to launch the programme this week at Read More

We are delighted to present our review of 2020, which has been a year like no other, a year of challenges that none of us have ever been faced with before and ever want to be faced with again. Despite all the phenomenal challenges we have continued to provide a full range of services and Read More

At Catholic Care we are really excited to be developing the services we provide to older people. Eller Beck Court is a brand new extra care facility in Skipton offering 60 apartments to older people. Catholic Care will be working in partnership with H21 and our role will be to provide the care service to Read More

After nearly 40 years working for Catholic Care on 23rd December Mary Simmons bade a fond farewell to colleagues as she left to start her very well earned retirement. Many of you will know Mary, she has been the heart of the Charity for so long and she will be very sadly missed, not just Read More

Christmas is a time for celebration, but it can also put additional financial pressures on families and we knew that this was even more likely to be felt much more strongly this year due to the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. In November we tasked our social work team who work in over 60 schools Read More

Rachel Beedle, Development Worker for older people’s groups, has been very busy over the last two weeks. Rachel has undertaken 100 visits across the Diocese, visiting group members who have not been able to come together in their groups for some months now. Rachel created gifts for all the group members, hand decorating the gift Read More

Peter Simmons, Catholic Care’s Manager of the Older People’s Community Groups, is pictured putting the final touches to delicious freshly cooked Christmas lunches on Wednesday 9th December prepared and cooked by Peter himself and Michelle Vink, who runs the groups. Turkey, roast potatoes, fresh vegetables and homemade Christmas cake for dessert was on the menu. Read More

Friends, colleagues and supporters joined together on Tuesday 8th December to celebrate the launch of the Gianna Baby Bank Plus Film. We wanted to capture the work of the team throughout this Covid pandemic period. Whist many Baby Banks, closed their doors Gianna remained open supporting hundreds of families across the Diocese. Well done Eileen Read More

The first of Catholic Care’s Christmas Community Markets took place at St Anthony’s Beeston on Friday 11th December. Lauren Oliver’s market stall looked wonderfully festive. What a lovely surprise for families and parishioners. Lauren had boxes of mince pies available, fresh bakery items and fresh fruit and vegetables. Lisa Leonard Head Teacher said ‘It was Read More