Covenant with the Poor

Annual Meeting 

View the meeting documents for 2024  here.

Meeting Report 24

Our Covenant with the Poor 23  here.  

Our Charitable Giving Guidelines are here.

Covenant with the Poor Annual Distribution of Funds 2024 

At our annual meeting on Sunday 24 June 2024 the following distribution of £5,000 was agreed.

•  430 Ben's Centre

•  430 Grace Food Bank

•  520 Sheffield City of Sanctuary Welcome Centre

•  525 St Wilfrid’s Centre

•   430 Friends of the Holy Land

•  660 ASSIST

•   260 Snowdrop Project

•   260 Pax Christi

•   500 Fr Leonard's projects in Uganda

•   260 Aid to the Church in Need

•      25 StopGap Membership 

•    200 Church Action on Poverty (Sheffield) membership 

•   500     in reserve.

Renewal of the Covenant takes place at Masses on World Day of the Poor (33rd Sunday of the year).

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Our Covenant with the Poor was first established at Pentecost 1998.

'We, the community of the Parish of St William, will seek to pursue a number of commitments in order to share in Christ's mission "to bring Good News to the poor", as we look forward to the Millennium and a celebration of 2,000 years since the birth of Christ. These commitments are a response to need and require that we give of our time and share our resources, in the spirit of the Jubilee, which in Biblical tradition, is a time of sharing and restoration. Our Covenant demands our prayer and will be reflected in the life of the Parish through worship and liturgical celebration.'