Do you wish to join the SSVP?
We are in the process of updating the website with meeting times for all our Conferences.
If you are interested in joining a local group, please call our National Office on 0141 332 7752.
New members are always very welcome. |
Our Projects in Scotland
Apart from helping in our local areas, the Society in Scotland also runs shops, Ozanam Clubs, Ozanam Centres, Furniture Projects and Caravans.
These projects are always hoping for donations and Conferences can donate to the projects in their local area by sending donations to 546! |
National Meeting 2008
Our National Meeting will again be held in the Glynhill Hotel Renfrew on 25/26 October 2008. Our theme will be 'Twinning and Evangelisation' and our twinned countries - India, South Africa and Hungary will be represented.
Booking forms will be sent out in due course. |
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Nargis Storm in Burma, Earthquake in China
Help us to help them! The SSVP have members on the ground in Burma and have members in Hong Kong with links to China. The Society is able, with the help of those members, to bypass Government bureaucracy and give help directly to those most in need.
Donations can be sent to SSVP National Council of Scotland, 546 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, G2 3NG |
The Society is 175 years old!!
The Conference of Charity was founded in Paris, the capital city of France, on April 23, 1833, in an atmosphere
of political instability and great social misery, where the laity’s role in the Church had been strengthened as a
result of the religious persecution during the Revolution, and as the importance of ‘works’ increased to respond
to those who criticised the ‘uselessness’ of religion…… |
International Vincentian Youth Study Days
The National Council of Scotland donated €3,300 for travel costs and expenses to three young people who attended the IYSD in Salamanca. |
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