Parish Project
2023
The Parish Project for 2023 is to support two charities:
The Harbour Project
Calne Welfare Charities
This charity assists refugees and asylum seekers. and aims to be a family for every individual who seeks asylum or is granted refugee status in Swindon, and to help them to rebuild their lives.
The parish supported this charity in 2022.
Further details about this charity can be found here.
The principle aim of this charity is to provide grants for the needy in Calne.
This is either in the form of Relief in Need due to personal hardship or with Advancement in Life which provides funding to support a personal wish, goal or education, where without additional funding this would not be possible.
Further details about this charity can be found here.
2022
The Parish Project for 2022 was to raise funds to support the Swindon based charity THE HARBOUR PROJECT which assists refugees and asylum seekers.
The charity aims to be a family for every individual who seeks asylum or is granted refugee status in Swindon, and to help them to rebuild their lives.
The charity provides advice, support, practical help and friendship, so that our visitors have the best possible chance of a fair hearing, a fair outcome from their asylum claim, and a fair future in the UK.
Further details about this charity can be found here.
2020
The Parish Project for the 2020 was to raise funds to support the charity TREE AID. This is a charity established 1987 in response to the famine in Ethiopia to provide a long term solution once the emergency relief efforts ended.
TREE AID helps people in the drylands of Africa to lift themselves out of poverty and protect their environment. People here live in some of the toughest conditions on earth and trees provide nutrition, generate income and help to create a healthy environment. TREE AID works with local communities to help them protect and grow trees, for themselves and for future generations. Since 1987, TREE AID has helped over 1.2 million people lift themselves out of poverty and planted more than 16 million trees.
Further details about this charity can be found here.
2019
At a parish meeting held on the First Sunday of Advent, 2nd December 2018, the charity Mary’s Meals was chosen as the Parish Project for 2019.
Mary’s Meals is a global movement of people from all walks of life, united by the belief that no child in this world of plenty should endure a day without a meal. Mary’s Meals is not a movement that divides rich from poor, or giver from receiver.
Mary’s Meals sets up community-run school feeding projects in some of the world’s poorest communities, where poverty and hunger prevent children from gaining an education. The idea is a simple one that works. Mary’s Meals provides one daily meal in a place of learning to attract chronically poor children into the classroom, where they receive an education that can, in the future, be their ladder out of poverty.
Mary’s Meals began by feeding just 200 children in Malawi in 2002. Today, it is providing more than one million children with a daily school meal on four continents, across Benin, Ecuador, Haiti, India, Kenya, Lebanon, Liberia, Malawi, Myanmar, South Sudan, Syria, Thailand, Uganda and Zambia.
Further details about this charity can be found here. This link opens in a new tab.
2018
As part of our parish ‘Covenant with the poor’ two charitable projects were chosen for 2018.
“Emmaus” is a charity to support the homeless. The first Emmaus community was founded in Paris, in 1949, by Father Henri-Antoine Grouès, better known as Abbé Pierre. He was a former member of the French Resistance who fought to provide homes for those who lived on the streets of Paris. Full details about this charity can be found here. This link opens in a new tab.
“Living Water Myanmar” is a charity which is a community development project that focuses on Water Security in one of the most impoverished regions of the country. This project is motivated by the severe lack of drinking water for villagers and school communities in the Dry Zone of Myanmar. The charity runs a water collection tank project which was started in 2011 in Nyaung Oo township to help schools and communities in the Dry Zone have access to clean water. Further details about this charity can be found here. This link opens in a new tab.
A water tank, paid for from the Parish Project fundraising has now been built, full details and photographs are here.
Parish contacts
- Parish Priest: 01249 813131
- Parish Office: 01249 813131
- Safeguarding: 01249 815042
- Saint Edmund's School: 01249 813821
- Website administrator: 01249 815042
Address
Saint Edmund's Catholic Church
65 Oxford Road
Calne
Wiltshire
SN11 8AQ
01249 813131
Information
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