Community
Charities
St Francis of Assisi Catholic College supports a number of Charities every year, raising many thousands of pounds across our community. We also donate food, clothes and toiletries to local charities and those in need of our support.
Staff and students also participate in personal charity based events across the year including the London Marathon, Comic Relief and Children in need.
The Charities we support include:
The Glebe Centre
The Glebe Centre is a multifunctional hub from where a variety of services are delivered that serve vulnerable adults in Walsall. Our skilled and friendly staff and volunteers work with a variety of individuals with differing needs.
At the Glebe Centre service users present with an array of problems such as:
- Homelessness
- Mental Health
- Drugs
- Alcohol
- Unemployment
Cafod
Cafod are an international development charity and the official aid agency of the Catholic Church in England and Wales.
We reach out to people living in poverty with practical help, whatever their religion or culture. Through our global Church network, one of the largest in the world, we have the potential to reach everyone. And we campaign for global justice, so that every woman, man and child can live a full and dignified life.
Missio
Missio ignites God’s love by helping missionaries to work alongside communities globally that are poor or in need, regardless of their background or belief.
Acorns
Acorns Children’s Hospice in the West Midlands is a local children’s charity providing specialist care services to life-limited children and their families.
Think Pink
Think Pink Europe works to provide non profit breast cancer organizations with training opportunities and “practical knowledge” that can allow them to strengthen their operative capacities, improve networking and sharing of best practices and implement at local level successful Think Pink Europe programs such as the “Race For The Cure”.
