As a member of the St Vincent de Paul Society I feel deeply uneasy that the SVP should be accepting a Big Society Award.My work as an SVP member is done to reverence Christ in the poor and I am privileged to be blessed in this way. I certainly do not welcome the plaudits of David Cameron. His Government promotes the “economy of ­exclusion” and the “trickle-down theories of economic growth” so eloquently condemned by Pope Francis in Evangelii Gaudium (53; 54).Cameron leads a Government that has done so much in the last three years to damage the needy people whom the SVP is called to serve. Our local food bank has five times as many people needing emergency food supplies, the main reasons being the delay in receiving the benefits they are entitled to and the larg