Projects

Our members in this diocese support family life and are involved in a great diversity of activities –

 

We support the four Women’s Aids in our diocese, by supplying them with dried and tinned food, toiletries and clothing for women and children.

 

We support the hospitals in our diocese, especially Ysbyty Gwynedd, with gifts of premature baby matinee jackets, and toiletry packs for the emergency wards and the maternity ward. Mothers’ Union volunteers work every day in ‘Ty Enfys’ – the accommodation unit for parents of very sick children, and also help in the children’s ward playroom.

 

Our Overseas Representative keeps in touch with the M.U. in our Link Dioceses of Katsina and Ogbomoso in Nigeria, Mumias in Kenya, Matabeleland in Zimbabwe, Kivu in Rwanda & Fianarantsoa in Madagascar. We also send items abroad via a parish link to Lango, and through a link with orphanages in Madagascar. (We send knitted clothing and teddies.)

 

We collect second-hand spectacles which go to Africa via Holyhead Lions Club or various local opticians. In Africa they use them for people who desperately need glasses in order to find work.

 

Through our A.F.I.A. (Away From It All) Scheme we arrange holidays for any family or individual in need of a respite break.

 

Mothers’ Union members volunteer in the Bangor, Holyhead & Porthmadog Child Contact Centres (this work is through a partnership with Relate, North Wales).

Joining the Mothers’ Union

Membership of the MU is open to all who have been baptised in the name of the Holy Trinity and who declare their support for the Aims and Objectives of the society.

When Mary Sumner set up ‘a mothers union’ in 1876, could she have envisaged the MU as it is today?

  • More than four million members in over 80 countries, all working towards improving family life in our communities through practical action and prayer.
  • A global voice, influencing such issues as international debt and family welfare. Vital outreach projects – in prisons, contact centres, hospitals, refugee camps – in fact, wherever there is a need.
  • Members worldwide united in prayer and fellowship.

  • Bangor Diocese



    The diocese of Bangor covers the whole of the north-western quarter of Wales and is roughly co-terminous with the ancient kingdom of Gwynedd.

    It extends from the port of Holyhead in the north to the rural market town of Llanidloes in the south; from the holy island of Bardsey in the west to Llandudno in the east, along the North Wales coastal strip; behind which lies Snowdonia and the most mountainous areas of Wales.