Father Hudson's Caritas

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Last few days to apply for our Family Support Worker role in Zena Wedgwood's team. Based across 3 schools: St Gerard's in Castle Vale, St Edmund Campion Catholic School and SS Peter & Paul in Erdington. You'll be supporting children and families to overcome adversity and disadvantage they face, particularly where these are affecting a child’s emotional wellbeing, mental health and educational achievement. 📍 Birmingham 🕛 30 hours Apply on our website https://lnkd.in/eMaZZ3xV Closing date is 31st March 2025. #Hiring

Our Chair of our Board of Trustees, Fionnuala Hegarty, shared her diary for a week. It shows some of the work that goes on behind the scenes to support Father Hudson's. It includes: - St Chad's Sanctuary 15th anniversary celebrations - Birmingham Inter-Faith Partnership event, invited by Mauricio Silva of the Columban Missionaries - Meetings with our CEO, Joanne Watters - Archdiocese Of Birmingham - meetings with Archbishop Bernard Longley and Canon Mervyn Tower - Volunteering at Tabor Living Thank you Fionnuala, for taking the time to share this and for all your hard work and dedication. It gives a great insight into what you do, and we couldn't be more grateful. #ThankfulThursday #FHC #Trustee

Our Brushstrokes Community Project has just published their fifth paper on Better Pathways for People with No Recourse to Public Funds (NRPF), in partnership with our friends and supporters Barrow Cadbury Trust. The paper "NRPF and public health: needs, gaps and best practice" can be found on Brushstrokes website on the link below, alongside previous research papers. https://lnkd.in/ebqGbRNF Our previous research papers covered the support of people with NRPF: - With EU pre settled status - Children with special needs - Adults with social care needs - Developing specialist multi agency support The papers aim to bring to the fore voices of people with lived experience of NRPF. The briefings can be used as helpful guides for frontline practitioners, and also have recommendations on how to develop more supportive pathways to better outcomes for people with no recourse to public funding (NRPF).

Zena Wedgwood and Laura did amazingly well at the weekend. They took on Stafford Borough Council and Freedom Leisure's Stafford Half Marathon. Laura completed it in 2 hours and 3 minutes, with Zena finishing in 2 hours and 15 minutes. Zena had aimed to complete it in less than 2.5 hours and smashed it, coming 63rd in her age category! Their fundraising target of £1000 was also smashed, with £1504 being raised to date before Gift Aid. If you'd like to donate and support families to enjoy new experiences and activities this summer holiday head here https://lnkd.in/efuqAWgs A huge thank you to everyone who has donated, and to Ant, Zena's partner, who helped Zena keep going all the way round! We are so proud of you all, what a fantastic achievement!❤️ #ThankfulTuesday #FantasticFundraisers #FamilySupport

Here's some positive news to start the week with - one of our guests at Tabor Living moved into his own property! Tabor Living work with people who have experienced homelessness or insecure housing. They provide a psychologically informed environment and work with the strengths of their guests to support them to move towards independence. We wish their guest the very best as he settles into his new home. ❤️ 🏠 ❤️

Good luck to Zena Wedgwood and Laura who are taking on the Freedom Leisure Stafford Half marathon tomorrow. They're raising money for summer holiday activities for families supported through our Family Support service. If you'd like to help families make special memories this summer donate here https://lnkd.in/efuqAWgs #FantasticFundraisers #FamilySupport #HalfMarathon

Richard shares his experience of growing up with Down Syndrome and how our supported living accommodation, managed by Andy Penny, helps him to maintain more independence. Thank you to Richard for sharing his story. ❤️ #WorldDownSyndromeDay #SupportedLiving #ImproveOurSupportSystems

Here's a sneak peek behind the scenes of Brushstrokes Community Project's latest videos. A huge thank you for helping us tell our story and connect with others, we really appreciate it. 🧡

We had a wonderful time at our 117th Ball last weekend, and would like to say a huge thank you to everyone who attended and contributed to its success. BRI Wealth Management plc generously sponsored our Ball, with Deeley Group sponsoring our band, Movida who provided superb musical entertainment. We were lucky enough to be joined on the night by FRIEL HOMES LIMITED, Gallagher, SPICER SURVEYS LIMITED (thank you for returning Big Ted!), BRI Wealth Management plc, Birmingham Diocesan Education Services, Archdiocese Of Birmingham, Zurich Engineering - UK. Zephi, Deeley Group, Gascoignes of Coleshill https://lnkd.in/eqamaTvA and Print Design Team, all contributed to our Ball booklet. We are grateful for auction donations that came from BRI Wealth Management plc, Zurich Engineering - UK, and Deeley Group. These raised a fabulous amount on the night. A shout out to Print Design Team for printing our Ball booklets, table plans and cards and delivering them to St John's Hotel Solihull. Thank you to St John's Hotel Solihull for their excellent service throughout the evening and in the preparations, we really appreciate it. The food and service was impeccable. Our Trustees were incredibly supportive of our Ball, with Fionnuala Hegarty, Brendan Clifford, Peter Fahy, David Craig, Rev. Michael Gamble, Fr. Michael White from our Trustees coming along. Staff also attended with family and friends, including Joanne Watters, our Master of Ceremonies Kevin Hateley, Joanne Walthew, Nicola Winstanley, Emily Pugh, Melanie Knowles and Emily Ryan. We are very grateful to Sinead Smith and our Caritas Ambassador Elizbeth and her dad Hercules from St Thomas More for showing their support. Thank you all for making a difference. ❤️ Save the date for next year - Saturday 18th April! #ThankfulThursday