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Justice and Peace Group

The St James' Justice and Peace Group was founded in June 2007. It currently has fifteen members and meets on the second Tuesday of each month, excluding August and December, at 8.00pm in the Social Centre.

The group’s primary responsibility is to raise awareness of social issues and produce a Parish response to them. Since its formation the group has achieved and been involved with the following:

• Arranged for the Parish to receive Fairtrade accreditation – all tea and coffee sold in the Social Centre is Fairtrade and we hope to expand the products offered soon. We also held our inaugural Traidcraft stall in March 2009 which was extremely well supported.

• Organised regular collections of food, clothing and toiletries for the Manna Centre. The Centre is based in South London and provides food and basic facilities for homeless people.

• Co-ordinated CAFOD emergency appeals for Burma and Democratic Republic of Congo.

• Set up a working party in November 2008 to study how our Church could reduce its impact on the environment.

This year we hope to continue with the above activities and also work with other Parish groups, organisations such as the Jesuit Refugee Service, and other Justice and Peace groups both within the Deanery/Diocese and at other churches in Petts Wood.

New members are always welcome; if you want to help make a difference then please come along to a meeting or email us at jandp@stjamespettswood.org

This will forward email to the current Chairman of the group.