You many have heard of the Kids Company, a charity proving support for vulnerable children in inner city London. I was asked to post about their upcoming Christmas Party which you can hear about in the short video below. Kids Company help over 17,000 vulnerable children and young people in and around London, and this year, [...]
Back in November, our Breakfast Club was featured as part of the BBC Children In Need fundraising programme. Here is the appeal film that they made: As a result of the film, we’ve had loads of interest in the club. Many, many people have commented that they saw us on TV and four individuals have [...]
I meant to post about this last month, but due to the arrival of our new baby I never got round to it. Tony Taylor and friends over at In defence of youth work (IDYW) have published a book called ‘This Is Youth Work: Stories From Practice’ along with an accompanying DVD. The book features 12 stories, [...]
I’m wanting to do a little bit of informal research around Christian youth work/youth ministry, and our motives as workers for doing it. I believe that most Christians would understand a scriptural mandate for working with young people. Many of us would quote Matthew 28:19 and the Great Commission as a reason to do [...]
Everyone makes mistakes, and when it comes to my youth work I’ve made some clangers! Hopefully by reproducing them here, it may give you a bit of a laugh and help you to avoid doing the same thing. Mistake #10: Ignoring disrespectful behaviour When groups of people hang out, there is usually some humorous banter [...]
YMCA George Williams College along with Y Care International have introduced a new Certificate in Global Youth Work. The aim is to “take youth and community practitioners on a journey to bring a global dimension to their practice with young people”. The interest in Global Youth Work has been a growing for a while. A while back [...]
I’m sure many of you are descending into the thriving seaside metropolis of Eastbourne this coming weekend for Youthwork The Conference. Hopefully I’ll see you there at some point. As usual, it promises to be an interesting weekend with a wide variety of speakers and sessions aimed at volunteer and salaried Christian youth workers. I’m [...]
Children and staff from our Launch Pad Breakfast Club will be featured on the BBC Children In Need fundraising event alongside TV & Radio presenter Zoe Ball tomorrow night (Friday 18th November). Launch Pad is a FREE Breakfast Club run by Arun Community Church for up to 30 children each day and has been partially [...]
Those of you who have tried to access this website over the past couple of weeks have probably noticed some problems… Due to a software vulnerability in WordPress, hackers were able to gain access to my website and insert extra code which tried to infect or redirect visitors to the blog. It also meant that [...]
In a follow up to my previous post regarding the latest round of cuts to the youth service in west sussex, I’m posting below a letter I have sent to West Sussex County Council’s ‘Children and Young People’s Services Select Committee’ which is meeting tomorrow (Friday 4th November). In addition to my role for Arun [...]
