Dermot O’Leary is flying the flag for gifts with a twist this Christmas by backing the Catholic Agency for Overseas Development’s (CAFOD) ethical presents, World Gifts. The 2011 range features over 30 inspiring and unusual gifts that will raise a smile on Christmas day and make a lasting difference to someone living in poverty overseas. [...]

Irish soprano, Virginia Kerr, is to perform in Durham to raise funds for Catholic aid agency CAFOD. And more than 150 tickets have already been sold! The world famous singer – a personal friend of St Godric’s parish priest Fr Colm Hayden – has offered her services free of charge to raise money for CAFOD’s [...]

CAFOD is one of three organisations to be nominated as official charities for 2011-2012 by the new Lord Mayor of Newcastle upon Tyne, Councillor Geoff O’Brien. And to launch their involvement with the Lord Mayor, CAFOD is holding a charity dinner at the Mansion House, Jesmond, on September 19, at 6.30pm, with the Lord Mayor [...]

Twelve intrepid walkers are setting out on a 135-mile trek to commemorate two CAFOD anniversaries. The group will walk from Durham to Holy Island over nine days in July to commemorate the 50th anniversary of CAFOD’s foundation and the 25th anniversary of the first CAFOD office in the North East. And the group includes two [...]

CAFOD Hexham & Newcastle has moved to a new office. We are now based at: St. Bede’s Presbytery, Carr House Drive, Framwellgate Moor, Durham. DH1 5LZ And our new telephone number is: 0191 384 4847 Here is a map showing our new location: http://www.streetmap.co.uk/map.srf?x=427094&y=544961&z=0&sv=DH1+5LZ&st=2&pc=DH1+5LZ&mapp=map.srf&searchp=ids.srf  

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