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Who we are...
We are a small, friendly group of parishioners who undertake a range of activities locally to support the mission and aims of CAFOD within the Parish. We have a commitment to fairness, and justice and peace for all, and see the work of CAFOD as an important way to live out our faith and the social teachings of the Church. We particularly feel that raising awareness and campaigning are important as both can lead to positive change. We started in 2005 inspired by the Make Poverty History campaign when three coach loads of parishioners went to the rally in Edinburgh. Activities since then have included organising a Rich World Poor World supper; promoting card signings to lobby for political change; a Livesimply picnic; promoting Fair Trade and helping the Parish achieve Fair Trade status; a creation walk; ecumenical activity and supporting CAFOD Fast Days. We are always open to have new members join us, particularly those with fresh ideas and enthusiasm! Come and join us – changing the world is fun. |
For more information, please contact us via the Parish Office Jim Jane Liz Kath Martina |
CAMPAIGN UPDATE
The Hungry for Change campaign has now come to an end. This called for greater justice in the world food system in particular for empowering aid for small scale farmers, especially women, and checks on the power of global food companies. You may recall the action card that many parishioners signed last September.
There was a fantastic response from the Catholic community of England and Wales resulting in over 60,000 of these being handed in to Downing Street. Although the Government’s response for more effective aid for small scale farmers was disappointing CAFOD will nonetheless continue to push for this. So what did the campaign achieve:
- The UK kept its commitment to spend 0.7 per cent of national income on international development aid
- World leaders pledged £2.7 billion to tackle malnutrition
- The G8 summit last June put tax and transparency issues firmly onto the global agenda and they made commitments that could signal the end of an era of secrecy;
- The UK committed to making companies supply information on who really owns, controls and benefits from companies;
- UK tax havens agreed to sign up to new standards for exchanging tax information.
The Hungry for Change campaign has now come to an end. This called for greater justice in the world food system in particular for empowering aid for small scale farmers, especially women, and checks on the power of global food companies. You may recall the action card that many parishioners signed last September.
There was a fantastic response from the Catholic community of England and Wales resulting in over 60,000 of these being handed in to Downing Street. Although the Government’s response for more effective aid for small scale farmers was disappointing CAFOD will nonetheless continue to push for this. So what did the campaign achieve:
- The UK kept its commitment to spend 0.7 per cent of national income on international development aid
- World leaders pledged £2.7 billion to tackle malnutrition
- The G8 summit last June put tax and transparency issues firmly onto the global agenda and they made commitments that could signal the end of an era of secrecy;
- The UK committed to making companies supply information on who really owns, controls and benefits from companies;
- UK tax havens agreed to sign up to new standards for exchanging tax information.
Earlier this year copies of the Fair Food Guide were distributed with the newsletter This provides some simple ideas for us to continue to do our bit to bring about a more just food system.
So let’s continue to think about our lifestyle, with a view to living more sustainably, especially by:
· Reducing food waste
· Reducing meat consumption
· Choose Fairtrade goods as much as possible when shopping
We can help create a fairer food system by our everyday actions. A free copy of CAFOD’s Fair Food Guide is available by calling 020 7095 5692 or by emailing campaigns@cafod.org.uk.
So let’s continue to think about our lifestyle, with a view to living more sustainably, especially by:
· Reducing food waste
· Reducing meat consumption
· Choose Fairtrade goods as much as possible when shopping
We can help create a fairer food system by our everyday actions. A free copy of CAFOD’s Fair Food Guide is available by calling 020 7095 5692 or by emailing campaigns@cafod.org.uk.
NEW CAMPAIGN
New campaign has now started in September on climate change. This will make the links between climate change and poverty and between climate change and our faith, as St Thomas Aquinas “if we get creation wrong we get God wrong”. This three year campaign will be part of a wider campaign by The Climate Coalition (of which CAFOD is a member). We all have someone or something we love that will be affected by climate change, a grandchild, a landscape or simply our global sisters and brothers. CAFOD is inviting us to record these as an indicator to politicians of the strength of feeling on this issue. You can take part in this easy action at: http://www.cafod.org.uk/Campaign/Take-action-today/climate-action |
You can also sign up to the regular campaign Action News email for the latest on the launch of the campaign at cafod.org.uk/campaign |
