Please take away your SPRED Advent Boxes and bring them back as full as you can early in the New Year. 

SPRED is our Special Religious Education Group for our parishioners with special needs and meets in twenty-one groups around our diocese, as well as in our local special needs schools, through 200 volunteer parishioners. 

Last year your Advent Boxes brought in an amazing £12,000.  We will be holding our annual SPRED parish collection in February which, last year, raised £23,000.

Thanks again for your generosity which is helping this wonderful organisation in our diocese to spread and grow from strength to strength.

Along with our Friends Fundraising campaign and our annual collection our Advent Boxes pay for just over 50% of this ministry.