A Word From Our Patron

'Family Groups offer our Catholic communities the chance to become more family-sensitive, friendly and welcoming, in line with the objectives of the Bishops’ collaborative pastoral initiative: Everybody’s Welcome. At their best, Family Groups offer understanding, friendship and support to all, encourage and celebrate family life in its myriad forms, and help everyone in the parish feel that they belong. I am delighted to be the patron of the Family Group Movement (England & Wales), and to endorse this initiative.'


Peter Doyle, Bishop of Northampton

Family Group Movement Collage

Family Group Movement Collage

Thursday 26 June 2014

OLOV's Family Groups: Working Together for a Better Community


Many thanks to Glenda Clarke and the Family Groups in Our Lady of Victories' (OLOV) Parish, Kensington, for sharing their slides and pictures:

DOWNLOAD OLOV'S FAMILY GROUPS' POWERPOINT PRESENTATION 


The presentation was used at a Family Groups' gathering on 17th May and explains how the Family Groups in OLOV have enabled parishioners and parish groups to work together more effectively for a better community. Fundraising is a core activity for OLOV's Family Groups and their recent homeless sleep-out raised over £8000 for charity. 


Over the next few years the team hope to increase the engagement of the parish's post-Confirmation young adults by encouraging them to use their talents in support of Family Groups, and stay actively involved in the parish community. 


In the coming months OLOV'S Family Groups will be working with their counterparts in St Mary's and The Holy Family Parish, Ipswich to help a parish in Kent get their own Family Groups off the ground.

If your parish has any great ideas for Family Groups or details of upcoming events, reports or pictures that you would like to share on this Blog please contact the MFL Project Office



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