Each of our offices around England & Wales organises their own events - the latest are posted here:

A day for all volunteers on ‘Human Flourishing’ 10.00 – 4.00 Saturday 11th September Hinsley Hall, Leeds, LS6 2BX Light lunch provided Booking is essential – to book your place please contact the Leeds office on 0113 2759302 or email leeds@cafod.org.uk Is there more to life than this? The problem of poverty and injustice Yes there is [...]

Are you riding The Wave? On Saturday 5th December thousands of people will flow through the streets of London as part of The Wave, UK’s biggest ever demonstration on climate change. To help get you to there, we’ve chartered a train – The Wave Express – to take over 500 people from Bradford, Leeds and [...]

Members of the DeBoo family from Northampton have started stretching out as they prepare for the Great North Run on 19 September.  Last year we had a record number of runners from the Diocese and hope to exceed that this year.  The DeBoo family were among the first to sign up and took possession of their CAFOD Vests [...]

Supporters from across Northampton danced the night away to the sounds of Fynnius Fogg at St Gregory’s Catholic Primary School. Fynnius Fogg provided their services for free enabling us to raise £1000, enough to provide a community seed store – guaranteeing food security for  a community at risk. Many thanks to Fynnius Fogg and all those who [...]

At 2pm on Saturday, 13 February, we will hold an exhibition and service at Northampton Cathedral  to remember and celebrate the initiative which launched CAFOD’s Family Fast Day. In 1960 a group of Catholic women did something extraordinary. They organised the first Family Fast Day, which led directly to the founding of CAFOD. A Short [...]

Could you speak for CAFOD in our schools and parishes.  We provide full training and our next training event is here at the Diocesan Office on 20 June.  For more details just email us at northampton@cafod.org.uk

The second Understanding CAFOD Day takes place on Saturday 9th October 2010 at St Augustine’s parish hall, Barkingside. View the invitation here This day is an opportunity for CAFOD supporters and anybody who is interested to find out about CAFOD’s work. The day will run from 10.30am until 4.00pm (lunch is included) and will focus [...]

Archbishop Romero Anniversary All are invited to a Mass to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the death of Archbishop Romero in Brentwood Cathedral at 7pm on Wednesday 24th March. It will be followed by a talk by Sarah Smith-Pearse from CAFOD in the large hall. Oscar Romero was a priest and bishop in El Salvador. [...]

Do you live in the Portsmouth area or will you be around Portsmouth on Saturday 5th September? Then come along to “Portsmouth Green Fair” in Guildhall Square! Organised by PCAN (Portsmouth Climate Action Network), it promises to be a really good day out for all the family – and we will be there with a [...]

CAFOD Hexham & Newcastle will be celebrating the 50th anniversary of the first Family Fast Day collection during this year’s pilgrimage to Holy Island.   And as well as commemorating the role played by the women who set up the first Lenten collection in 1960, pilgrims will also be remembering Monseñor Oscar Romero, who was [...]

  A Kenyan Archbishop and a diocesan AIDS coordinator made a huge impact in the region in only 24 hours. Archbishop Boniface Lele and Sister Pauline Nthenya, from the Archdiocese of Mombassa, had only 24 hours in Newcastle on October 30, but still managed to pack in visits to the diocesan asylum-seekers project in Benwell, [...]