Mini Vinnies - Society of St Vincent de Paul

These are all our enthusiastic and motivated Mini Vinnies.

On 14 September 2018, all the Mini Vinnies attended and participated in a special commissioning ceremony and mass at Leeds Cathedral. Bishop Marcus led the mass and re-commissioned our existing Mini Vinnies and commissioned our youngest Mini Vinnies to begin their role.
'Mini Vinnies' are children in Year 4 and above who, with the permission of their parents and the support of their School, are encouraged to embark on their first steps as possible 'Vincentians for life'.
Those wishing to become a Mini Vinnie are invited to apply in school and state how they would carry out good deeds in the community.
Mini Vinnies is about doing good works in the community. The Vinnies model of ‘See, Think, Do’ is a great way to get young people thinking and talking about their spirituality; by connecting their beliefs and values with service activities and issues in their community, they can help to make their faith real, meaningful and relevant.
‘Our Mini Vinnies’ group will meet regularly during lunchtime and are always busy planning on how they can reach out to the people in need in our community. Over the past few years our dedicated Mini Vinnies have organised different fundraising events to raise money for The Good Shepherd Appeal during Lent and have collected Food for the Leeds Food Bank. We also help the staff in improving things in our school and have helped in planning and setting up the school Prayer Garden.
You can learn more about what we do and how Mini Vinnies began by looking at the website…
Primary schools in our Bishop Wheeler Catholic Academy Trust are going to raise money for a sock appeal. Year 13 Students from St. Mary’s Menston who visited South Africa in June 2018 presented the assemblies.
All the schools within our trust are displaying Consultation information about Admissions for Entry September 2020.
Mr Duggan who is the resident composer at Leeds cathedral came to teach the choir “missa mundi”, which he had written for them to sing at the cathedral concert on Sunday 8 July
The ten schools in The Bishop Wheeler Catholic Academy Trust participated in the Bishop’s annual Good Shepherd Celebration at St. Anne’s Cathedral on Friday 11 May 2018.
This was an experience with much reflection time and opportunities to understand and experience different ways of praying.
We went on a trip to Cliffe castle in Keighley to learn about "The Stone Age."
The ten schools in The Bishop Wheeler Catholic Academy Trust participated in the Bishop’s annual Good Shepherd Service at St. Anne’s Cathedral on Friday 19 May 2017.