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Disaster relief

In the early hours of Monday 6 February 2023, a powerful 7.8 magnitude earthquake struck near Turkey’s border with northern Syria.

 
The scale of the devastation remains unclear. But we know that the earthquake has already killed more than 5,000 people, injured hundreds more and destroyed thousands of homes and buildings.

 
CAFOD's local experts are already on the ground and assessing the needs of those affected by the earthquake. CAFOD has committed £100,000 to support their local experts who are on the group providing urgent humanitarian support to survivors of the earthquake.

Please donate online if you can, using the link below, or donate at church this weekend where we will have a special appeal collection basket for CAFOD's relief efforts.

Click to go to CAFOD's website

See an article from Bishop Declan

Please see the JOB ADVERT from St James Priory Bristol:

We are seeking a Support Worker (30hrs) to join our Team at St James.
Previous experience of Support Work / Counselling desirable.
Flexibility essential.
Email : info@stjamespriory.org.uk to express an interest.

https://stjamespriory.org.uk/

Community Cafe - local news!
Thank you to the Downend Voice for the wonderful article about our new warm space, Community Cafe, each Friday from 1.30-3.30pm in our parish hall.
Such a lovely write-up and great pictures of our team who were behind the set up and involved in the running of the new initiative for the local area.
The numbers each week are growing and we couldn't be more delighted!

Also, huge thanks go to Raj and team at MS-2 Stores in Downend who gave us a VERY generous donation towards the running costs - what a wonderful community we are in!