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Help Make a Difference, Volunteer with Nugent

As we start the New Year, many of us are creating New Year’s resolutions, why not make a resolution that will help your local community?

Marian, a new volunteer from St Anne’s parish with Nugent’s Sharon Deverdie

We have a range of volunteering opportunities available across our services to suit everyone, no matter how much time you have to give or what experience you have. We have people from all walks-of-life, contributing to the lives of others, giving up their time, and bringing energy, dedication, compassion and dignity to the work they do.

Here are some of the volunteering opportunities we have available: - Drivers - Food Pantry - Charity Shop - Community – including CARITAS - Fundraising projects - Homes – volunteer at our children or adult homes

Volunteers are an essential part of Team Nugent, by donating your time, skills and experience you are making our services possible, enabling us to extend our support and giving individuals a much-needed voice. Volunteers help bring a wealth of different experiences and ideas to Nugent and the people who receive our services.

Volunteers are a vital part of helping us continue our good work in your communities. Here are some of the things accomplished by the wonderful Team Nugent during 2021/2022:

- Supported 2,386 people through our Nugent Pantry (run by our volunteers) - Provided pastoral support to 68 Deaf individuals - Helped with the resettlement of four refugees through the Community

Sponsorship Programme - Provided special education for 56 young people with behavioural difficulties - Placed 13 children with 9 families through Nugent Adoption

If you would like to help us continue our mission to care for, educate, protect and inspire those in need, and you think that volunteering is for you, we’d love to hear from you.

Get in touch with our HR team to see what local volunteering opportunities are available to you. You can reach our HR department by emailing hr@wearenugent.org Normandie Wragg Chief Executive Nugent

Happy New Year to all of our friends and supporters.

The start of 2023 brings us new challenges to face and indeed difficult times. I don’t think there is one amongst us that could say that they have not been affected by energy costs, the costs of inflation and the economic worry that comes with this.

In a period of great apprehension, Nugent’s colleagues and volunteers have continued to deliver indispensable support to those most in need of our help, at a time when it could not be more important.

As the spiralling cost-of-living crisis has spread across our country, which has led to more people living in poverty within our communities, Nugent is supporting CSAN’s Cost of Living Campaign. The campaign invites everyone in the Catholic community to write to their MP to amplify the ‘asks’ of government issued by the Bishops’ Department of Social Justice. As we are heading into another time of worrying austerity, it is vital that we act now to raise a prophetic voice in the public arena. To find out more and to download a template to write to your MP, visit www.csan.org.uk/cost-ofliving-crisis/

At Nugent, we strive to love one another as God has taught us to and show care and compassion for others. This is a quality that we are proud to uphold, and at a time of hardship showing compassion and acts of kindness are crucial to help families in crisis survive another difficult year ahead. The Good Shepherd Appeal, one of our oldest appeals, has been running for over 120 years and helps to provide these vital acts of kindness.

This year’s Good Shepherd Appeal begins on Ash Wednesday, 22 February, and runs to Easter Sunday, 9 April. We collaborate with schools and parishes and actively engage young people to work together to help us continue the essential work started in our archdiocese by Father Nugent.

As we move forward with a feeling of uncertainty, Nugent will continue to care for, educate, protect, and inspire those in need.