Newsletter
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Contributions to Sacred Heart & St Anne
Donations can be made via the collection plate in Church or direct from your bank account, the details of which can be found here
If you pay tax please consider adding gift aid to your contribution which would enable the parish to claim an extra 25% courtesy of the taxman at no cost to yourself. If this is something you would like to consider please contact me here with your phone and email address and I will ask Margaret, our gift aid co-ordinater, to get in touch.
Current gift aid donors can ignore this paragraph as we will pick up the information from their names if they donate online
Harvest Family Fast Day is on Friday 3rd October 2025
Waré is a mother to five children living southern Ethiopia, where she herds goats with her husband. Four years of severe drought has killed lots of their livestock and Waré had to get up at 5am every day and walk at least five hours to find water.
If the nearest water sources had dried up, she had to keep looking – a much longer day – walking up to ten hours to find water, even when she was pregnant. Waré spoke about feeling so weak, she was worried that her children would be left without a mother.
“We have lost so much”, Waré told us.
But there is a happy ending. With your gifts at Family Fast Day, CAFOD worked to help Waré and her community build an underground water storage tank, able to support 300 families. Now, Waré has water just a 10 minute walk from her home.
Our parish’s support this Family Fast Day will mean that more of our neighbours, like Waré, can get safe water for their families.
Coming new this Fast Day!
Contactless fundraising for CAFOD
As well as the traditional envelope we now have access to a virtual envelope which allows you to make your Fast Day donation online and link it to our parish (cafod.org.uk/envelope). As over 80% of all payments in the UK are now made using card why not try using contactless to enable those of us who no longer carry cash to still support CAFOD’s work of providing vital and practical help to people living in poverty? As usual we have our QR lanyard hanging at the back of church and the QR code is also available to use on both envelopes and posters.
St Anne’s Centennial
Details from this and other recent events and memories from much longer ago can always be found on our History & Archive pages
Parish Facebook
In order to be able to keep parishioners informed whenever Father Jim makes any communications or when the website is updated with newsletters etc we have created a Parish Facebook page.
If you have a facebook account please visit and like the page so that you will then be automatically notified whenever this website is updated otherwise please visit this page periodically to check for any updates
For those parisioners without a facebook account I have embedded a feed from it below so everyone will be able to access the latest 5 postings to the page
