VACANCY: Office Volunteer

Would you like to support our CAFOD Volunteer Centre, minimum one day per week? A typical office volunteering day could involve a mix of the following activities:

Daisy: one of our most recent office Volunteer preparing resources for Parish Volunteer refugee walk events

• Welcoming volunteers
• Updating the database
• Phone calls
• Posting letters
• Photocopying
• Shredding
• Editing the monthly Volunteer eBulletin
• Events and hospitality
• Updating the display board

Full training and travel expenses will be provided

To apply for the volunteer vacancy, click here or call (0113) 275 9302 for more details

 

Want to discover how you can counter consumerism with CAFOD?

In today’s busy world in can be difficult to get lost in our own lives and fall into the trap of misguided consumerism whilst neglecting the call to be holy.

But here at CAFOD Leeds – we have the answer.

Our series of retreats across the country titled “Countering Consumerism” will show you how to avoid these pitfalls and make the changes to honour God in the 21^st Century.

Be inspired by Pope Francis, and his new letter Gaudete et Exsultate (Rejoice and Be Glad) – allow the words of the Gospel to shake up your life and broaden a mindset that can be restricted by the expectations of a fast paced, materialistic society.

Environmental issues are the most crucial for our generation to solve, with throwaway culture dictating our purchases and plastic polluting our oceans, come together with CAFOD to explore Scripture and discover what we can do to live simply with each other under Church teaching.

The retreats are free of charge and all are very welcome.

For more information and to book onto one of our retreats, follow the link.

 

Leeds School girl Lois, is a shining example of Live Simply

Lois is a student from Holy Name Catholic Primary school in Leeds, and is taking direct action campaigning to make sure Leeds schools use less single use plastic, all in her bid to become the next Children’s Lord Mayor or Leeds.

                                      Lois’ campaign message on single use plastic

Lois gets support and advice from her local MP Alex Sobel, inspiring others to ‘Live Simply’

Holy Name Primary school have been involved with CAFODs Live Simply award (one of two primary schools from the parish of Our Lady of Kirkstal)

Lois is raising awareness of how to reduce single use plastic in her school and the message has spread across social media and on local radio broadcasts.

Lois has been visiting other Catholic Primary schools across the deanery and met her local MP Alex Sobel to make sure this issue of reducing single use plastic is heard by the widest audience possible

Lois said “I hope this campaign as part of my bid to become Children’s Lord Mayor, will encourage schools in Leeds to reduce their use of single use plastic and stop creating such a polluting impact on our oceans.”

CAFOD representative, Bronagh Daly said “Lois is such an inspiration for our school children, her actions can inspire more people in our Diocese to do more to reduce their dependency on single use plastic, and care for our common home. We wish Lois all the very best of luck for her campaign to become the next Children’s Lord Mayor of Leeds.”

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For more information on the voting process for the Children’s Lord Mayor of Leeds, click here (voting closes 19 September 2018

For more information on how your parish can become a Live Simply click here.