The Soup Run came about when a group of parish Confirmation candidates saw homeless people sleeping rough in doorways in the Strand late one evening and decided to do something in response. The result has been that every Saturday afternoon since – except over Christmas, teams of parishioners have made tea, coffee and sandwiches and distributed them, along with cakes from Dunn’s, to homeless people at Lincoln’s Inn Fields. Oddly enough, they don’t make soup!
Each team works once every four weeks. Each team consists of two groups – sandwich makers (who use the Parish rooms), and drivers/distributors who deliver the food and drinks. Sandwich making and distributing take about one and a half hours each. Volunteers are always needed.
If you can spare the time on a Saturday afternoon, once a month, then contact the Parish Office about joining one of the teams. If you would like to help without making a regular commitment and becoming part of a specific team, you will be just as welcome – particularly during the summer holiday period. Sandwich making begins at 4pm.
Dunn’s the Bakers in Crouch End Broadway have proved a great benefactor, donating bread and cakes, but the Soup Run cannot operate without parishioners providing fillings for the sandwiches and forming the teams of sandwich makers, drivers and distributors so, when you remember and can spare the money, please put an extra tin of meat or fish, a piece of cheese, some other sandwich filling or some margarine in your shopping trolley and bring it along with you when you come to Mass. There is always a box inside the entrance to the church. We get through an awful lot of sandwich fillings! Many thanks.