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Please let us know if you would like to attend our AGM on Monday, 20 April 2026 at St Boniface House in Ashburton, Devon.  Please ...

Thank you to St Joseph’s parish in Newton Abbot and Knit & Natter Newton Abbot library for this wonderful array of beautiful knitted and crocheted ...

Would your parish or school like to take part in this year’s Great Big Diocesan Quiz ? Friday, 8 May is the date when teams ...

Many parishes responded to our recent plea and placed a ‘wanted’ article in their newsletters asking for knitted baby donations.  We were pleasantly surprised by ...

In just four months, we have allocated almost half of the £10,000 Day for Life funding to 19 families with a child aged 1 or ...

Most applications we receive and consider are from Devon, and in particular Plymouth, however the number of applications from Cornwall continues to rise each year. ...

​…….. of this year’s CCSP ‘Rise to Our Cause’ Ascension Day fundraiser. It is being held at the Assumption of Our Lady in Torquay on ...

We’re about half way through the current round of voting so please don’t forget, if you shop in the following four Tesco stores, please use ...

Thanks to the parishes of Yelverton, Paignton, Teignmouth and Blessed Sacrament in Exeter, we have managed to raise almost £1,500 so far this year. This ...

“We were recently able to help a young mum with an Essential Grant for her son and her nephew who has gone to live with ...

Over the last few years, parishioners from a number of parishes including the Assumption of Our Lady in Torquay and Our Lady of Lourdes and ...

In 2025, our ink cartridge recycling boxes raised almost £400 for CCSP and in the process, 27.57kg were kept from landfill !! 30 full boxes ...

We have just heard that the Cornwall Community Foundation has once again awarded us £2,000 from their Surviving Winter fund. We have until the end ...

214 families received an Essential Grant last year compared to 141 in 2024 and the number of applications continues to rise. Families from all over ...

 A number of schools have already signed up to this year’s Good Shepherd programme – BenevoLENT. Back in January, we had a wonderful preparation meeting ...

It’s almost time for our third ever Wills Week so if you are thinking about making a will or amending an existing one or perhaps ...

Towards the end of last year, we received an Essential Grants application from a family in Cornwall who asked for our help to make life ...

Our last Orange Box collection of the year back in December raised a fantastic £3,340 and that was from just five parishes in Dorset !  ...

Well done to Catherine Odams, whose entry was selected at random in our third ever Crowdfunder prize draw held towards the end of last year ...

From the middle of January until the end of March, if you shop in the following four Tesco  stores, please use your blue token each ...

Back in the Summer, we came third in the last round of voting using the blue tokens held at seven Tesco Express stores in the ...

Back in the Summer, we received the wonderful news that the Gibbons Family Trust had very kindly granted CCSP £2,000 to help families living in ...

There are only 2 weeks left to enter our third Crowdfunder prize draw to be in with a chance of winning an AF140 Ninja Air ...

We have just heard the wonderful news that we have been successful once again in our application for another £10,000 grant from the ‘Day for ...

If you are contemplating making a will or amending an existing one, why not take advantage of our Wills Week being held w/c 23 February ...

Our Good Shepherd programme this academic year is called BenevoLENT. Sarah is happy to visit your school and help your groups to plan an event ...

Trustees’ Week is an annual celebration of the incredible impact made by all trustees.  It’s a time for everyone to come together to celebrate the ...

Please nominate CCSP for us to be in with a chance of winning £1,000 every weekday from 1 December to 16 December 2025.  Simply click ...

At the start of June, we heard the wonderful news that our application for £4,000 of Crisis Funding from the Cornwall Community Foundation had been ...

We are delighted to report that we have now spent all £10,000 of the ‘Day for Life’ funding we received last October. We were able ...

We have just received a wonderful donation of £275.75 from the Plymouth Catholic Choir following the difficult decision to fold after 76 years. Formally known ...

Back in May, we held our Annual CCSP Mass at St John the Baptist Roman Catholic Church in Camborne and it was so lovely to ...

Thank you to everyone who joined us back in May for this year’s ‘Rise To Our Cause’ event at St Cuthbert Mayne in Launceston. It ...

Congratulations to ‘Not So Deadly’ from St Mary’s in Poole who were crowned this year’s Overall Great Big Diocesan Quiz winners back on Friday, 9 ...

We are looking to recruit an Assistant Grants Officer to work alongside our Administrator and support the work already taking place, facilitating the provision of ...

The Ladies Aid Society has very generously awarded CCSP a grant of £2,500 to help with our Essential Grants programme by providing financial support to ...

The questions for this year’s Great Big Diocesan Quiz have now been finalised and we’re delighted that four parishes have already signed up to take ...

We are delighted to announce that we have been shortlisted as one of the three charities/community groups to be included in the next round of ...

Thanks to the staff and customers at the gift shop at Buckfast Abbey, their collection tin was emptied at the start of the year and ...

Thank you to Fr Jacek, Fr Peter and Fr Kristian and their parishes of Axminster, Barnstaple and Tiverton for fully funding their schools to be ...

Firstly, our Orange Box recycling scheme has raised an amazing £5,970.51 compared to last year’s record breaking total of £5,534.23. Thank you to every parish ...

During advent, one of the younger parishioners at Our Lady Star of the Sea in Weymouth made decorations out of paracord and decided to sell ...

Thanks to the parish of Holy Cross in Exeter, £500 has been raised and donated to CCSP through the production of their very own cook ...

Huge thanks to both Notre Dame School and St Boniface College in Plymouth who came together as one on Tuesday, 17 December 2024 to prepare ...

Back in the summer, we held our first Wills Week in conjunction with Tozers solicitors and three appointments were made. Thanks to these supporters and ...

A fantastic second session at Our Lady of the Angels in Torquay with these three ladies today who completed their Pro-active Parenting sessions. It was ...

we have just heard that our latest orange box collection has raised almost £700 and included this delightful Norwegian silver, which raised almost £150 on ...

We are looking for new members to join our 50:50 club – Helping Hands. Half of the money raised by subscriptions each month is retained ...

We have just heard the wonderful news that we have been successful in our application for a £10,000 grant from the ‘Day for Life’ Fund. ...

We are looking for trustees to join our Board, which is made up of enthusiastic volunteers, who meet four times a year at our offices ...

Thank you to everyone for supporting our 2024 Annual Appeal just over a week ago. Our parishes have already begun to send in their collection ...

Back in March, we received £14,000 of funding from the National Lottery Community Fund. We are delighted to confirm that in just six months, this ...

Our 2024 annual mass this year was held on Thursday, 20 June 2024 at St Joseph’s in Weymouth thanks to Fr Anthony and the children ...

A huge thank you to Kevin Foster and his team for awarding CCSP another grant of £500 in their final round of donations from the ...

A big thank you to everyone who came along and joined us at our second Ascension Day fundraiser at St Mary’s in Poole on Thursday, ...

‘The Only Ones’ from St Peter & St Thomas More in Plymouth who scored 104 out of a possible 130 marks. What a fantastic score ...

We have some availability for Rainbows Bereavement and Loss Continual Professional Development training, to support staff in their knowledge and understanding of the effects of ...

This year’s Annual Appeal falls on the weekend of 26th and 27th August 2023 and packs will soon be sent to every parish in the Diocese, which ...

Our CCSP Annual Mass this year was held at St John’s Catholic Primary School in Tiverton on Thursday, 8 June 2023. A big thank you ...

Our ‘Rise to Our Cause’ event at Buckfast Abbey on Ascension Thursday, 18 May 2023 was a great success. It was a wonderful opportunity for ...