7th September
Well I completed the 5k challenge yesterday and walked it in a time of 53mins 33 seconds. Thank you yo every one who has sponsored me.
Bank Holiday weekend
Should I train or should I relax? Hmmmmm
20th August
AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH. Only two weeks and I have lapsed a bit in my training - to be fair have been ill but.....
7th July
So I have been doing my Personal Training for the run - although still think it will be more like a jog, may need volunteers to push me over the line.
23rd June
Thanks for taking the time to visit my JustGiving page.
The Society was established 150 years ago in response to the need to provide families and homes for Catholic orphans. Since then it has evolved and its work now covers the Diocese of Wesminster (basically all of North London, stretching from Canary Wharf in the east to Staines in the west, and covering all of Hertfordshire in the north as well) providing services to families of all backgrounds regardless of race, sexual orientation or religion. These services include providing nurserys and playgroups in areas where children have little space to play, parenting skills courses, loans of toys and books, providing counselling in schools for children, providing family counselling and mediation, as well as adhoc help to families in times of stress - this could cover providing christmas hampers or helping families get basic equipment like washing machines.
So although the nature of the service the Society provides has changed over the last 150 years, it is still concerned with helping families remain families, hoping the services provided stop family breakdown.
I started working for the Society in 2006, and although I am not a Catholic when I was looking for a new position I found that, in general, either well established charities (e.g. set up 50 years plus) or charities set up by religious orders were the most general in the help they provided. Other examples of Charities with religious background (although I think they are now secular) are the NSPCC, Dr Barnardos, Oxfam and so on.
70% of the money the Society needs to provide its services comes direct from donations, this gives the Society the freedom to provide the services that the people we work with want. The rest of the money comes Central Government, Local Government and Diocesan funds and grants.
