The 18th March is the annual National Child Exploitation Awareness Day which aims to highlight the issues surrounding child exploitation, and encourages everyone to Think Twice, Think Abuse. 2024 marks the 10th anniversary of this awareness day. Child Exploitation is...
The 19th November is Safeguarding Sunday. This is an awareness-raising national campaign organised by the Christian safeguarding charity Thirtyone:eight. It is a day where we will join with other churches across the UK to highlight the importance of protecting...
An ecumenical service is being held on Thursday 30th November at 3pm, at Holy Family Church in Plymouth (Beacon Park Road, Plymouth, PL2 3LR). The service is being held in response to the 16 days of action against gender-based violence (25th November – 10th...
Tuesday 10th October is the annual World Mental Health Day. The theme this year is, ‘Mental health is a universal human right’, to improve knowledge, raise awareness and drive actions that promote and protect everyone’s mental health as a universal human right. Good...
On Tuesday 3rd October we held our annual clergy safeguarding conference at the conference centre at Buckfast Abbey. More than 80 clergy attended along with several Parish Safeguarding Representatives. The training was led by MoMENtum, who are an organisation that...
Antonia Sobocki from LOUDfence has been at the Vatican advocating for survivors of abuse and for healing and reconciliation in our church. As part of her trip, she presented a poem written by Fr Mark Skelton to the Pope! Antonia said that Pope Francis described the...
