The Blog

We are pleased to present our annual review for 2022. This has been an exceptionally busy and challenging year for the Charity. We began the year still dealing with many Covid related issues.

St Winefride’s Church Hall was `buzzing’ today thanks to a joint effort from our Community Market Team, Lunch Group Team and Healthcare Professionals from the local surgery.

Right now, hundreds of families across our Diocese are desperately trying to just get by, hit hard by the cost of living crisis. They don’t want to even consider what Christmas will look like, as they just try to get through another month, counting down the days with less money in their pockets.

The Church has celebrated the World Day of Migrants and Refugees since 1914 and this year it is 25th September.

We are delighted to present our review of 2021, another very challenging year dominated by the COVID-19 pandemic, with the year starting in lockdown and ending with the Omicron variant.

Catholic Care has a lot of experience through being the Lead Sponsor of a number of Community Sponsorship groups. We have decided that to optimise our resource and experience we will partner with an organisation called Citizens UK and around 15 others.

Our vision is for Catholic Care Parish Representatives to be part of an integral network of people in the Diocese of Leeds, supporting vital services and people in need.

Over the past few days, we have heard distressing news about the war in Ukraine and seen the harrowing pictures of the destruction and the humanitarian crisis that the conflict is causing.

Caroline is the resident “daredevil” living in one of the Charity’s homes in Leeds. She just loves the excitement and adrenalin rush and before Covid had completed her training for a parachute jump.

The past 18 months or so have been a difficult time in so many ways for all of us. It has also been difficult to say a proper “Goodbye” to our staff and especially to those who have given many years of dedicated service to the Charity.

After years of planning and weeks of intensive work, Eller Beck Court welcomed its first resident on Monday 27th September 2021.