Fairtrade was established in 1979 as a Christian response to poverty.
Traidcraft is the UK’s leading fair trade organisation.
Traidcraft’s mission is to fight poverty, practising and promoting approaches to trade that help poor people in developing countries transform their lives.
The Our Lady of Grace Traidcraft stall is usually at Our Lady of Grace, see dates in the newsletter.
Contact-Lynn Harrison Tel: 0115 9235460
Read here about the work of Fr Vincent Kanyankole from the Diocese of Jinja in Uganda. Here We always welcome Fr. Vincent to the Parish for his annual Summer visit. For those of you that have not met Fr. Vincent before, he is a Parish Priest from the Busowa Parish in Uganda. Fr. Vincent has…
The objective of the Burundi Project is to help young men and women in the village of Bukeye, Burundi, to learn skills such as building and carpentry by helping to fund the salaries of lay teachers at the Bukeye Professional Training Centre, which is run by Fr Emmanuel. For more information visit the Burundi page.
Welcome to the 9th West Bridgford (Holy Spirit) Cub Scout Pack. Our Group, supported by the Catholic parish in West Bridgford, was founded in 1943, with the first Cub meeting held in 1944. Since that time many hundreds of Cubs and Scouts have enjoyed the programme of activities offered through the Scouting Movement, and have…
The UCM has been in the Holy Spirit Parish since 1945, this Summer it was disbanded and a Thanksgiving Mass was held for all present and past members. To be more inclusive, a new group is being formed , it will be ‘ The Friendship Group’. and will be open to men and women. It’s…
Come along and join a really friendly group of mums, dads, toddlers and children. Lots of free play and craft activity each week. Storytime and singing towards the end of the session. Drinks and healthy snacks provided for all. Runs every Thursday during term time from 10am-11.30am – £2.00 per family. For more information please…
Quite a number of parishes throughout the world have an ‘SVP conference’ but for the uninitiated the following extract from our opening prayers sums up the duties of every SVP member: Lord Jesus help us through meeting together to deepen our Vincentian friendship and answer the call every Christian receives, to seek and find those…