News. New Home! CCS. Autumn/Winter 2014

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1 New CCS Regitered Charity Follow u: Deigned and printed in houe by The Catholic Children Society New Home! Artit impreion of the new building! Twenty Eight year ago (1986) Sr Margaret Mary Bannerton DC. opened the CCS St. Franci Family Centre in Flora Cloe, Tower Hamlet. She did thi a he noticed jut how many familie were aking for ocial help from the local church. The centre building appeared nothing too pecial; not much pace indoor or out, quite old already and in need of frequent repair. It had een previou ue a a Working Men Club, hoted Irih dancing and other community activitie, but after 28 year of gloriou ervice to the local community the building at Flora Cloe i no more. It wa demolihed in May to make room for purpoe built flat for the elderly. However, for the lat 12 month building work a few hundred yard away have been gathering pace. The ite of the Holy Family primary chool wa being tranformed, firt with temporary claroom erected, then the demolition of the old chool and finally the building of a brand new chool newly named Our Lady and St Joeph. With it come the new home for CCS St Franci Family Centre. Alo moving into the new chool will be taff and pupil of Our Lady Primary School in Limehoue. Over the year, St Franci, ha uccefully poitioned itelf a a leading provider of community ervice in the area. A we are part of the Catholic and wider local community, it wa decided that we hould eek to move to the ame ite a the chool in order to encourage ynergie and greater community ervice proviion. One way would be to demontrate how early year community upport and intervention combined with on ite chool counelling proviion for older pupil can improve learning and community coheion commitment. Placing St Franci on the ite of Our Lady and St Joeph Primary School i a new miletone in our development. CCS, in partnerhip with the Diocean Education Service, the chool governor and the parih, eek to enhance and enrich our hared goal which i: The glory of God i a human being fully alive. St. Irenaeu. The Centre together with the School will be formally opened by Cardinal Vincent Nichol in March 2015.

2 CCS New Deacon Jim Richard MBE t t e or u p eq up R S r fo 11th October nd February 2014 CCS Crii Fund in Action! Lat year we launched the Crii Fund. The objective of the fund i to provide financial upport within 24 hour to children identified a being in a family with immediate need. The fund doe not eek to provide long term help, but rather act a a preventative meaure to top people falling further into depair and detitution while other maintream upport i put in place. Importantly the fund ha no adminitrative t e rt qu ppo e cot aociated R r Su fo with it. 100% of monie donated to it goe directly Som etime, the fact to children and are hard to wall ow... familie in need. Annie Story Annie Head Teacher i one of many who ha ued the CCS Crii Fund to help a pupil. Here i Annie thank you letter to her Head Teacher... The lat few month have been a particularly ad time for the CCS family. Our dear friend and former Chief Executive, Deacon Jame Manon Richard MBE, known to u a Jim, paed to higher ervice on 22nd February. Our abiding memorie are of a family man with an outtanding belief in hi faith, commitment to children and familie in need and the love he had for hi own family and friend. Since qualifying a a Probation Officer and Child Care Officer in 1970, Jim wa a paionate advocate of children right, concerned to addre child poverty and a campaigner for excellence in adoption and children care ervice. Hi ignificant voluntary work included involvement with the Britih Aociation for Adoption and Fotering which panned 16 year, whilt during the 1990 he wa a trutee of both the Children Legal Centre and the Family Right Group, a national voluntary organiation that advocate for the welfare of children who are in contact with ocial ervice from a family-centred perpective. He wa alo the Vice-Chairperon of the National Youth Advocacy Service. The etho of all three organiation reflected Jim belief in the principle which underpin the UN Convention on the Right of the Child, particularly that children need are paramount in any deciion made about them and that their wihe and feeling hould alo be taken into account in uch deciion. A Chief Executive Officer of the Catholic Children Society (Wetminter) between 1990 and 2009, Jim had changed the focu of our organiation from mainly family placement to a range of innovative community ervice; including work with Irih Traveller, family centre baed work with diadvantaged children and familie in area of high poverty, child and adolecent pychotherapy, counelling and play-therapy ervice delivered in chool and in non-tatutory etting. Thi i hi legacy a our work in thee area continue to grow. With thi edition I encloe literature about our Legacy programme. None of u want to think about our own mortality but remembering thoe le fortunate in your will can lead to one lating memory - a life changed for the good by your kindne. Jim wa a man of integrity and jutice. He not only talked but he alo acted with integrity and jutice; both within the public domain and the more private phere of hi family and local community. Married to hi wife Diane for over forty year, he wa a father of three children and a grandfather of four. For thoe of u who worked with Jim, it wa a privilege. Hi faith wa affirming and underpinned all that he did, he will be orely mied. Dr Roemary Keenan CEO Catholic Children Society (Wetminter) Follow u: Providing emerg ency aitance for diadvantage d familie Regitered Chari ty Deigned and printe d in houe by The Catholic Children Soci ety Roemary Keenan and Jim Richard

3 CCS New The Trutee, The Chairman, The Old boy of the Cruade of Recue and D Day! One of our Trutee; Victoria Nichol, together with her huband Richard, from St Mary Church in Hamptead did their bit to take part in the 70th anniverary of the D-Day landing of 6th June They drove one of the Willy Jeep ued in the famou landing back to the Normandy beach on which it landed. The Willy MB U.S. Army Jeep wa manufactured from 1941 to The mall four-wheel drive utility vehicle are conidered the iconic World War II Jeep, and inpired many other light utility vehicle ued in warfare. Setting out from a rainy Hamptead on 3rd June the journey to Normandy had a particular ignificance for Victoria, whoe father, a Royal Marine, landed on Sword beach. It wa the firt time that he had been to Normandy to ee where her father fought. A mall crowd gathered at St Mary Church where our Chair of Trutee Mgr. Phelim Rowland, parih priet and formerly Vicar General of the Army between 2002 and 2006, bleed the Nichol and the jeep before it hitoric journey acro the channel to join with the veteran remembering the event of 70 year ago and their colleague who made the ultimate acrifice for a free Europe. Many old boy from the Cruade of Recue took part in military operation during the war, including Brendan McGurk who landed on the Normandy beache on D-Day. Sadly he wa killed within 12 hour of landing. Jame Jimmy Langrell erved a a Sergeant Oberver (Navigator) with the RAF. In January 1943 following a Lancater bombing raid over Hamburg Jimmy wa reported miing. Several month paed before official confirmation wa received adviing of hi death and hi burial ome 60 mile from Hamburg itelf. The Korean War followed on quickly from the end of World War II where another Cruade old boy Lionel Eex (pictured above) erved with ditinction. Injured and captured by the Chinee at the battle of Imjin River, Lionel wa tortured but gave no information other than name, rank and erial number. He eventually ecaped and wa found by a patrol from a Greek Battalion. After month in a Japanee and later Englih hopital, he recovered to give a peech introducing the King on Chritma day We alute all thoe who erved. They hall grow not old, a we that are left grow old: Age hall not weary them, nor the year condemn. At the going down of the un and in the morning, We will remember them. Much of the reearch for the above piece wa conducted by one of our Cruade of Recue Old Boy; Norman Taylor who wa formerly alo reident at Blaidon Hall. We were addened to learn that Norman departed thi life for higher ervice on 18th June Wartime Memorie St. Joeph wa a quiet backwater. Very little of what wa going on in the world filtered through to the boy. There wa limited acce to the radio and programme that we were permitted to liten to were carefully elected. What we had been told in the month leading up to the declaration of war with Germany wa that the German air force would unleah terror raid on London and the other major citie in Britain and thi would caue thouand of caualtie. We had everal rehearal of what we were to do when the air raid iren ounded and we learned to march quickly to our allotted place in the cellar. We received our ga mak and were taught how to ue them if we had a ga attack. The air raid iren ounded almot immediately after the declaration of war on that unny Sunday morning in September 1939 and 150 terrified boy and taff, quickly made their way to the cellar expecting intant annihilation. It wa a fale alarm and we emerged into the playground thankful that we had urvived what we believed wa the firt German air raid. In September 1939 time wa et at double Britih ummer time and darkne did not decend until 9 o clock in September. On 6th September we had gone to bed at our uual time of even o clock and becaue of the daylight we were unable to leep. The boy became retle and a with all young boy it wan t long before, noticing that the duty Siter wa no where to be een, they began to make their way to the fire ecape to admire the view acro London. There had been ome limited German air activity during the afternoon and the ound of the iren had ent u running to the cellar for helter. Once again although we heard gunfire and the droning of German aircraft overhead they quickly paed u by. The boy who had made their way to the fire ecape oon came running back to the dormitory. Come quickly they cried, it look a if there i a big fire omewhere in London. I wa among the group of boy who made their way to the fire ecape to ee what the caue of all the excitement wa. When I reached the fire ecape platform, I could not believe what I wa eeing. The ky wa a bright crimon colour. Smoke wa riing high into the ky. London appeared to be burning from end to end. Burting anti aircraft hell could be een exploding in the air, the gunner attempting to drive away the attacking bomber. We tood there in awe of what we were witneing. We were brought back to our ene by the ound of approaching aircraft. The local anti aircraft gun tationed nearby opened up to intercept the intruder. We could not move we were o facinated by what we were eeing. Suddenly we heard one of the Siter telling u to come inide and make our way to the cellar before we were killed. It i now ixty eight year ince that gloriou ummer and autumn of The un really did hine every day of that ummer and autumn. It wa the clear kie that enabled the boy of St. Joeph to enjoy witneing hitory in the making. We urvived one the mot dangerou time in the hitory of thi country. Looking back it would eem that very little attention wa paid by outide agencie to enure that we were in afe keeping. Enfield wa attacked on everal occaion. Over 250 of it citizen lot their live and hundred more were caualtie. Norman Tayor

4 CCS New How our runner finihed... RA l Hill e b a I Sr. hr d 4:07 Finihe Neal Smith :49 hr Finihed 3 Sam Sanger Finihed 4:06 hr Fr. Ivàn Pichel OSA Finihed 4:31 hr The American are coming throughout the United State and abroad. The London ervice learning trip wa the 15th year we provided thi life-changing week, where tudent gain knowledge and firt-hand experience of innovative ervice delivery and ocial jutice iue in other communitie. Running with Mo In April jut over 30,000 excited runner lined up for the tart of the London Marathon. Among them were four people running to raie fund and awarene of our work. However, thi year the expectation wa higher than ever a thi wa going to be a real race a race againt the legendary World and Olympic Champion Mo Farah! Speaking before the race, former World record holder, Hialie Gebrelaie wa quoted a aying I ve never een uch big name in one race, both men and women, wa he talking about our runner? He went on According to what I ve heard about Mo preparation they are facing a big challenge from him! Mo finihed the race in a time of 2 hour 4 minute and 29 econd adly our hope of victory for a CCS athlete were ome way off the mark with our quicket runner finihing in 3 hour 49 minute - there alway next year!! Grateful thank to our four runner Neal Smith, Sam Sanger, Sr. Iabel Hill and Fr. Ivàn Pichel We gave a warm welcome to our pecial friend a they litened to a preentation about our work delivering therapeutic ervice in chool uch a drama and play therapie, viited our Stay & Play facility in North Kenington and learned about the iue of economic, relational and piritual poverty that we eek to addre. who raied 8,000 to upport our work! Place to run in the Marathon are like Gold Dut We have 8 guaranteed place next year. If you would like to run or know omeone who would, pleae contact Megan Barzaq meganb@cathchild.org.uk for more information. In May we were privileged to hot 16 tudent and 2 tutor from Tula Community College (TCC), Oklahoma, USA. Speaking about the college the trip facilitator Dr Diane Pott aid: TCC i Oklahoma larget community college. Our Human Service program ha over 300 major with more than 80% of thee planning to complete an advanced degree in ocial work or other helping profeion. Thee include working with children and familie, alcohol and drug addiction, correction, gerontology, developmental diabilitie, non-profit management, homelene and other at-rik population. Under the leaderhip of Dr. Sharolyn Wallace, tudent have the opportunity to experience delivery of human ervice in divere etting After a long day of work a trip to the alway intereting Portobello Road Market and Notting Hill let the tudent relax for a while before we joined them for ome good old fahioned London hopitality in the local!

5 CCS New Who i your neighbour? Good Samaritan Ma Pupil at the Good Shepherd Ma with candle made by the Carmelite Nun at the monatry of the Holy Trinity in North Kenington. Star of Hope - Good Shepherd Ma In June a record breaking 3,500 children made the pilgrimage from chool acro the diocee to Wetminter Cathedral to celebrate their annual Good Shepherd Ma. During Lent CCS had worked with chool to promote the Star of Hope campaign deigned to raie awarene of the need to help children and familie who live with all type of poverty every day. The program upport teacher in their ongoing work and help to increae children undertanding of Catholic Social Teaching. The children had prepared all ort of tar which were diplayed on large banner throughout the Cathedral. For many children it i the firt time they will have viited uch a large and important church. Seeing the awe on their face a they peer into the vaulted ceiling or explore the ide chapel with their teacher i alway uch a refrehing ight. Another firt wa our live Twitter feed of the event which generated a huge amount of interet online. Bihop John Arnold and Bihop John Sherrington who celebrated the Mae, encouraged the children to bring hope into the live of other through their word and action. The Good Shepherd Ma and our Lenten reflection, written by Cardinal Nichol are a great way to help pa on our faith to a younger generation. For the firt time a pecial Ma organied by CCS and led by Cardinal Vincent Nichol wa held in Wetminter Cathedral for econdary chool pupil. During 2014 we have been exploring way of working more cloely with our econdary chool. You will have read earlier about how our Crii Fund (acceed by chool) i helping to upport thoe mot in need. The Good Samaritan and what that hould teach them about their action toward their peer and other. Jut over 700 tudent heard Cardinal Nichol launch what will now be an annual event. Next year we hope more econdary chool will get involved with thi life changing project. The fund i upported by generou individual donor, however it alo eemed appropriate that we hould ak older pupil to get involved in helping to raie money for thi fund and then celebrate their work at thi Ma. Pupil have been buy aking themelve Who i My Neighbour? Thinking about the parable of Choir from Maria Fideli chool Euton. 700,000 children in the Diocee of Wetminter live in poverty! The Catholic Children Society need you to be a Good Samaritan

6 CCS New Recent... Upcoming... 1 Chritma Card- on ale now! Our range of fabulou Chritma card i now on ale and card cot le than lat year! A brochure i included with thi edition of CCS New on which you can order card for yourelf or encourage friend and family to do likewie. If you prefer to order on line pleae viit and follow the link to our hop. 4 Annual Review Our 2013/14 Annual Review will be formally releaed on 28th October. You can view or download a hard copy verion from our web ite from that date or watch our Annual Review video to hear from ome of the people we have worked with during the year. 2 Second New Web Site in a Year! Following the ucceful launch of the new CCS webite in October 2013, March 2014 aw u completely update our other web ite through which chool can acce our counelling/therapy upport and mental health awarene training ervice. The ite ha a freh modern look and we have een a noticeable increae in the number of chool acceing the ite and eeking to engage our cutting edge ervice proviion. Unlike mot other provider CCS pride itelf in uing only fully qualified therapit to deliver intervention ervice. Thi give u a competitive edge and enure we conitently deliver a very high quality ervice. If you work in a chool or know omeone who doe pleae viit the ite or make other aware of the ervice we provide. 3 CCS Deanery New Did you get your copy of CCS Deanery New in April? Thi new bi-annual publication i produced in houe at very little cot to CCS and i deigned to make more people aware of the important work we undertake. Each publication i bepoke a it relate pecifically to work we have undertaken in each Deanery community. At time it can be difficult to imagine how an organiation baed in North Kenington can poibly be delivering activitie acro the whole Diocee! well you would be urpried at jut how far our ervice reach and how divere they are. To ee the latet edition on line viit or look out for the hard copie in your Parih next month. 5 Crib Appeal Pleae look out for our Chritma Crib Appeal in your Parih. We have no diocean retiring collection during the year o rely heavily on the Crib Appeal to fund our work in chool and with diadvantaged children & familie. Depite the improving economic ituation, we are till eeing more people than ever looking for our help, with in work poverty now becoming a particularly hard iue to ait with. A Pope Franci ha reminded u, we all have a Chritian duty to hear and act upon the cry of the poor. Pleae hear their plea and upport u generouly thi year. 6 Carol Service Our annual Carol Service at Wetminter Cathedral are packed event. We uually have well over 3,000 well behaved chool children, teacher and member of the general public turn up throughout the day. Steel band, fetive muic, a live donkey and heep all add to the atmophere! Improving young people piritual growth and undertanding of Catholic Social Teaching i an important apect of our work and one of our charitable objective. Thi event i jut one of the way we look to deliver thi work. Why not join u and Cardinal Vincent Nichol thi year at Wetminter Cathedral on 3rd December am & 2pm. 7 Benefactor Ma Thi year our annual Benefactor Ma will have even more poignancy for u a our former Chief Executive Deacon Jim Richard MBE adly paed away. Jim i one among other equally important upporter who have paed away during the lat year and we will remember them and thoe who have gone before. Ma thi year will be held at St Ethedreda Church in Holborn at 2pm on Sunday 30th November. Following Ma thoe attending are welcome to join u in the Crypt to meet old friend, partake of refrehment and hear about the latet work of the Society. We do hope you can join u. Place are limited o pleae contact Megan Barzaq on meganb@cathchild.org.uk or call to reerve a place. Thank you.

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