Activities continue to increase in Liverpool. The highlight of the year was the visit of CARJ’s Chair Yogi Sutton to our projects accompanied by Administrator Gloria Oham. MUSIC The activity with the Voices of Hope Gospel Choir at St Hugh’s and St Clare’s Primary Schools has continued to flourish. Membership...
Volunteers are needed for work with Prisoners. Volunteers can play a very significant role in helping people in prison and post release. Prisoners value them greatly as they give their time to look after people who so often feel they are worthless. Volunteers motivated by their Catholic faith will have many...
Embargo: Immediate Date: ongoing For CSAN Contact: T: 020 7633 4971 For CARJ Contact: Gloria Oham T: 0208 802 8080 Email: Info@carj.org.uk “We do not believe that significant progress has been made over the past five years”: CARJ highlights the continued disadvantage faced by Gypsy, Roma and Traveller communities The...
CARJ has submitted a response to the Education Green Paper - Schools that Work for Everyone. Through our Stepping Stones Project, we are working with others to support schools, families and young people from marginalised communities; and we welcome the Green Paper’s suggestion that Independent Schools, Selective Schools and Universities...
Circle of Voices Choir which is a project of CARJ Liverpool has received glowing mention on Liverpool Archdiocese website. An article about the choir, noted that the 70 choristers are drawn from two schools with a high volume of established and new immigrants and that performing with the choir has...
The 23 page evaluation of the Circle of Voices Children's Gospel Choir Project is now available for download. It is a comprehensive description and evaluation of the first year of the project and includes a description of the participating schools and their social context plus, in-depth interviews with the Headteachers...
Haynes Baptiste, a leading figure in the Catholic Association for Racial Justice (CARJ) died on Thursday 26 May 2016 at St George's Hospital. His funeral will take place at 11am on Tuesday 7 June, at St Gregory's Catholic Church, 306 Garratt Lane, Earlsfield, London SW18 4EH. You can read a...
If They Come, What Will They Find? With desperate migrants and refugees fleeing into Europe from Syria, Libya, Eritrea, Afghanistan and other countries , we have to ask ourselves what will they find if they come to the UK? What kind of support and friendship will our Church and our society offer them?...