Father Hudson's Care has announced its new logo and change of name to Father Hudson's Caritas, as of Tuesday 1 October.

Father Hudson's Care Statement

We are pleased to announce that from 1st October the new name of our charity will be Father Hudson's Caritas. At Father Hudson's Care we have been providing support to those in need since 1902. Over the last 122 years we have adapted and developed to ensure we are reaching out and supporting those most in need.

Caritas means love, charity, care, concern for others. The term is universal and used across the world by similar organisations driven by a Catholic ethos.

We are proud of our ethos, we reach out and support people of all faiths and none and are embedded by our values of being inclusive, welcoming of all and challenging injustice. Having Caritas in our name better reflects our place nationally and internationally, ensuring we are visible both regionally as the social care agency of the Archdiocese of Birmingham and internationally as a Caritas organisation.

Father Hudson's Care CEO Jo Watters said: “The formal link with Caritas better reflects the work we do and we look forward to working closely with parishes in the coming months”

Archbishop Bernard Longley welcomed the change in his Pastoral Letter for the 21/22 September:

In his first letter to the faithful, Pope Benedict chose to write about Caritas. Here he describes the Church’s rich history of care for those in need: 

The exercise of charity became established as one of her essential activities, along with the administration of the sacraments and the proclamation of the word: love for widows and orphans, prisoners, and the sick and needy of every kind, is as essential to her as the ministry of the sacraments and preaching of the Gospel. The Church cannot neglect the service of charity any more than she can neglect the Sacraments and the Word.

Pope Benedict also wrote: As a community, the Church must practise love. Love thus needs to be organized if it is to be an ordered service to the community.

In the Archdiocese we are blessed to have an agency that does precisely that. All its resources are dedicated to the service of peple who are homeless, asylum seekers and refugees, people with disabilities and special needs, care of the elderly and vulnerable  young people. We see this work going on in projects all over the Archdiocese.

Read full Pastoral Letter