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Society of St Vincent de Paul

Northern Regional Office

196-200 Antrim Road

Belfast

BT15 2AJ

 

Tel: 02890-351561

Fax: 02890-740522

 

Email: info@svpni.co.uk

 

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Reg. Charity XN45800

 

 

 

There are currently 9 'Youth' conferences with over 100 youth members of the Society throughout Northern Ireland attached mainly to schools, colleges and universities. Many other young adults are members of local parish conferences and are involved in all sorts of activities from visiting the elderly to running novel fundraising events.

 

The Society has always been an organisation where people with commitment and ideas are always welcome. Young people as well as older folk, are energetic, idealistic and imaginative. Many are deeply concerned about poverty and injustice, and anxious to become involved both in short-term alleviation and long term answers.

 

 

Michael Gormley - Regional Youth President

 

Michael Gormley Michael Gormley is the Northern Region's new Youth President supported by Sarah Jane Goldring, Youth Co-ordinator.


Michael sees the SVP as an agent of social change and believes this will be its challenge to a younger element in the population with a social conscience looking for a means to express it.

 

However, Michael was concerned that to his friends the image of SVP was that of an "old and ageing" body of people unconnected with the young and their different set of interests - it seemed "frozen in the past".

 

As a means of unfreezing this perception, he set up the first youth conference at his own school, Lumen Christi College in Derry, where he teaches maths to boys and girls between the age of 11 and 18.

 

It now has 15 members carrying out vital visitation work and contributing to the life of the SVP in the area.

 

 

Youth members can play an important role in the Society. Young people have a great capacity to detect and react when faced with injustice and distress that are all too prevalent in our country and elsewhere in the world.

 

The Society of St Vincent de Paul works in the community to help stamp out poverty and to enable people to develop personally and as a community. Everybody who is part of the local community can make a difference in their community.

Derry Fashion Show - 23rd February 2007

3rd Annual Conference - 20th October 2006

Camp Vincent - 28th to 30th June 2006

Sponsored Walk for Lourdes Teams - 3rd June 2006

Edmund Rice Awards - 8th May 2006

Belfast City Marathon - 1st May 2006

Youth Weekend in Castlewellan - 22nd April 2006

The 'Art' of Easter - April 2006

Schools Awareness Day - 16th March 2006

Wild West Fundraiser - 7th February 2006

Limavady Football Marathon - 2nd December 2005

Dominican College Spellathon - 25th October 2005

Annual Youth Conference Belfast - 22nd October 2005

Bessbrook Youth Awards - 15th June 2005

Young Vincentians receive 'Diana' Award - May 2005

Armagh Youth Conference - 11th February 2005

Youth involvement during SVP Week - December 2004

Youth Meeting - 16th October 2004

Edmund Rice Awards - 6th May 2004

 

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Street Collection
Boys from Loretto College in Coleraine halping in downtown collection in December 2006
Football event
Members of St Mary's High in Limavady organise a marathon five a side 'all-nighter' - to raise funds
Marathon Fundraiser
Girls from Fortwilliam College help raise funds by running in the Belfast City Marathon during 2006
Christmas Cards
Youth members making up hundreds of packs of assorted Christmas Cards for sale in local schools.
Fundraiser
Members of Queens University conference hold a 'Wild West' theme night and disco to raise much needed funds in January 2006.
Carol Singers
Members of Loretto College conference organise a Carol singing event in Coleraine at Christmas 2006
   

 

 

 

Youth for Justice

 

Justice : Action : Inspiration

 

The Youth for Justice project provides a platform for young people to examine and to deal with the tensions and difficulties of a divided society; those who have and those who have not - the disadvantaged and marginalized who often exist on the very edges of life!

 

Turning social concern into 'Action' became the guiding principle of Frédéric Ozanam, and that same challenge is being put to you today. Direct your energy, your youthful enthusiasm, your creativity but most of all your love for your neighbour into positive action.

 

Action

 

The project is school based, involving students in organising and running a social awareness or social action project locally. The project can be run either as a module within school time or as an extra curricular activity, involving teachers, parents and friends.

 

  • Visiting nursing homes and hospitals
  • Assisting with Homework Clubs and Adult Literacy
  • Helping with the annual Christmas Appeals
  • Get involved in innovative Fundraising events

 

Every project is important in its own right and gives the opportunity to students to give something back to their community.

 

Resources

 

We recommend that you use the 'Education Pack' to help you identify a project that you are interested in and then to organise that project fully.

 

Packs are available from our Regional Offices (address opposite) or by sending a email to info@svpni.co.uk

 

 

 

 

 

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