Letter from the Director, BCCS 2020-04-17
From: Libby Phillips
Sent: Thursday, April 16, 2020 4:20 PM
To: Libby Phillips
Subject: Letter from our Director
Dear Father,
We hope that this email finds you well during this difficult
time as parish communities worship at a distance and learn new
ways to connect with their faith from home.
At bccs our priority has always been to keep children and
families at the centre of our work and during this unprecedented
time, this has never been more important. We wanted to let you
know that we are still here for these young people – we continue
to keep in touch with schools and families via phone and video
links and to offer help and support where we can during this
period of lockdown.
Unfortunately, we anticipate that the need for our work is
likely to increase once we come out of our current situation.
As you will be aware, this will be a very difficult time for
many and especially for those children and young people who were
already facing challenging family situations, anxiety or abuse.
We are looking ahead to different ways of funding projects for
schools around coping with bereavement and loss as well as support for
parents and teachers with transitioning children and young people back
into school; we anticipate this may prove difficult for many.
If you know of a family who is struggling at this time, please
do speak to us or ask them to contact our Head of School
Services, Catherine Munns cmunns@bccs.org.uk
Could we ask you also if possible, to put a link to our website
on your own webpage to signpost families to our service. The link
to our webpage is: https://www.bccs.org.uk/
We would also like to take this opportunity to thank all
parishioners who donated to our work during the season of
advent; we have been very glad to receive these crib donations
over the past few months. It is true to say that donations from
our parishes and schools are vital in ensuring we can continue
to deliver our specialist mental health services throughout the
Diocese.
We look forward to being able to re-start our information talks in
parishes throughout the autumn and winter – this will be an important
way for us to share our story and of course, to ask for donations from
our community which will be so necessary to us at that time.
Thanking you for your continued help and support.
Kind Regards,
Bernadette Fisher
Director
bccs - Brentwood Catholic Children's Society
01268 784544
www.bccs.org.uk
