LIFE is a National Charity set up to provide help and support to women with a ‘crisis pregnancy’. The Weymouth and District LIFE Group runs a charity shop and pregnancy care centre at 8 Great George Street.
The shop supplies good quality second hand baby and children’s clothes and equipment, adult clothes and books.
The Care Centre is above the shop and offers free pregnancy testing, counselling and post abortion caring services from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. on most days.
Appointments can be made by telephone on 01305 761126.
(For pregnancy tests, please bring an early morning urine sample).
Other services provided are:
free counselling and support for pregnancy loss (miscarriage, ectopic pregnancy or stillbirth);
referrals to the LIFE Fertility Programme for couples trying for a child;
referrals to Zoe’s place Baby Hospice for seriously ill babies.
The Centre also offers help with accommodation for single homeless pregnant women.
We are a lively group of about 30 members from both parishes. Our main aim is to raise money for CAFOD and other charities and to achieve this we organise at least one fund–raising activity per month. Our activities last year included a monthly coffee morning with cakes and bric–a–brac, Ritz Tea, two Auctions, a Christmas Bazaar, a Quiz Night and other events.
We find that most of these events have a social character to them which we feel benefits the parish and the local community. For coming events, see the Events/Diary page of this website.
We are also involved in issues such as Live Simply, Fair–trade, Trade Justice and GM crops, and we organise the Family Fast Day collections.
To download the minutes of the most recent meeting, please click here. More information can be obtained from the Secretary:
John Jenkins, e-mail:
Weymouth and Portland has had a Catholic Youth Club for thirty years.
Open to young people from the age of ten, it helps to bridge the gap between our Catholic Primary School and Secondary Schools, allowing young Catholics to meet in an informal setting.
The Club is run by adult volunteers and meets every Sunday evening in term time at St Joseph’s Church Hall. Contact Nancy Brook or Matthew Wilkins (Tel: 01305 784349) for more details.
Activities are organised in advance and take place in the Church Hall or outside venues.
Events and residential weekends with other young people from around the deanery are
also arranged.
Click here to see a list of events for the coming months
The aim of the group is to bring social justice and the friendship of true charity to all those in need.
There is no need which is outside of our concern – be it sickness or disability, mental or physical; family problems, social or economic; loneliness in old age: the alcoholic, the drug addict, the social misfit.
Our work is the Gospel message in action
I was hungry, I was thirsty, I was a stranger, I was naked, I was sick, I was in prison.
Meetings take place once per month on the last Thursday – visits to clients are normally weekly.
The Prayer Group meets on Thursdays at 7.30pm at St Augustine's Hall (always advisable to check newsletter first).
We have been meeting together for many years. So many people have come and been blessed by the Lord. We meet to praise Him, to know Him better and allow Him to use us to bring His good news to others. We have put on Life and the Spirit Seminars, Alpha and Lenten Talks. All are most welcome.
The Dominican Laity are men and women of all ages who feel that by attachment to the order of St Dominic with its traditions and ideals, they can improve their Christian living and so be better able to help others whatever their needs. We are a very small group in Weymouth. Currently, there are other fraternities in England in Ashhurst (Southampton), Brixham, Cambridge, Edinburgh, Hastings, Hawksyard – in – Lichfield, Leicester, London, Manchester, New Forest (Lymington), Newcastle–upon–Tyne, Oxford, St. Marychurch (Torquay), Stone, and Walsingham