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July 2016

Hello!
The more observant of you may have noticed that there was no mailing in June, apologies for that. A lot has happened in the month of June and we're now over half way through 2016! Please feel free to have a browse through what's on in the coming weeks and months and if you have any questions or would like anything added to this mailing please hit reply. I promise I won't do anything like this

Just a quick reminder that you can use these links to jump straight to each specific part of this email, alternatively have a leisurely scroll through.

Dan

In this issue:
Reboot - apologetics conference
Youth Workers' Link up
Prayer Spaces Training
Brighton City Mission - Fun Day - This Sat
Boost training conference
CYE activity day
Steve Flashman Books
Youth work basics training
Kindle
Children's Society Resources
Walsingham Youth Pilgrimage
Sportivate - Sport England
Sussex Clubs for Young People
Spark
YMCA resources
Send a Cow
The Hub
Vacancies

Reboot 2016

Christian apologetics conference for young people. Answering questions like "How can we know God existis?", "Does God allow suffering?"
September 24th 2016

Emmanuel Centre, Marsham Street, Westminster, London, SW1P 3DW

Youth: £5, Youth Worker: Free with 4 Youth tickets
To find out more and to book tickets visit: http://www.reboot.org.uk/

Youth Workers' Link Up

An opportunity for those working with young people across Chichester Diocese to link up, share ideas and resources, take time out of the day to day and look objectively at their youth work practice. Pastries, coffee and sandwich lunch provided.
9:30-13:30 Sept 14th 2016

To book visit: http://youth.chichester.anglican.org/linkup/

Boost Conference 2016

11th October 2016
9:45am to 4:30pm
Emmanuel centre, Marsham St, Westminster, SW1P 3DW

This is a day conference exploring Emotional resilience and Spiritual wellbeing with guest speakers including: Dr Kate Middleton,Sally Nash, Sam Richards, Ian Mc Donald, Paul Nash and Ian Henderson. For more information and to book please visit the website.
http://www.separtnership.org.uk/boost/

CYE Activity day

Steve Flashman has had a vast amount of experience in children’s and youth work worldwide. As a professional musician he played the Royal Albert Hall, Wembley Arena, The Marquee Club in Soho and countless venues all over the world. He has appeared on radio and television many times and has released 10 Albums. He has written several books, is an Anglican Vicar and is also Founder and Director of Community Choirs UK.

Book 1: “The Theft of the Purple Plug.” Fact: water always twists the same way down the plughole. So on the day that it swirled round backwards, the whole universe changed. Tom is mysteriously transported beyond the Black Hole to a parallel universe populated by Clawhammers, Slickwingers, Cosywags, a Jellybot and the evil army of Megagrit…

Book 2: “Carnival to the Aquadome”. It’s party time in the strange and wonderful world of Crystalan. But the carnival is not all it pretends to be. It has a sinister and deeper purpose designed to capture the minds of the Clawhammers and their friends. Tom battles for the truth and will use any means he can, including a Magobil and the hijacking of Megagrit’s Starcruiser…

Book 3: “Return of the Rainchild.” The newspapers and social media are buzzing with excitement: ‘Alien Monster Sighted In London.’ The British Prime Minister faces the ultimate nightmare as Tom takes him on an unbelievable journey. Set in a disused underground station, an undersea volcano in the South Pacific and Megagrit’s headquarters at Cragahele Tin Mine, the world depends for its survival on the return of the Rainchild.

Available here:

www.steveflashman.co.uk/shop

Youth Work Basics training

We have a new youth work basics training course designed for volunteers and delivered in partnership with The Resource.
If you are interested in booking this two hour training session to be held in your church or a venue near you please contact dan.jenkins@chichester.anglican.org
The course includes:

Key principles of youth work
Safeguarding and best practice
Policies and procedures
Starting a project
Building a programme
Creative prayer and game ideas

Kindle is a FREE monthly youth event run by Street360 the 1st Saturday of each month!

Visit their website here

Like Music? Enjoy spending time with others? Want to learn more about God and what it means to be a Christian? Then this event is for YOU! Kindle is a chance to meet new people, hear great speakers, listen to great music, and seek after God.

Location:

Eim Church, Trinity Centre, The Mardens, Crawley. RH11 0AQ

The Children's Society Resources

The Children's Society has just released their latest Church youth group resource. The sessions are built upon their first-hand knowledge of supporting young people no matter what issues they may face.

It contains six youth group sessions from a faith perspective to help youth workers unpack key topics such as identity, sexting, mental health, healthy relationships, and life online, empowering young people to support themselves and their peers.

It’s free, ready and waiting at: www.childrenssociety.org.uk/youth

Walsingham Youth Pilgrimage

Delegation being led by Fr John Eldridge for more information and to download the booking forms go here

Sportivate

Sportivate offers a wide variety of sporting activities for free or at hugely subsidised rates to young people aged 11-25 across Sussex who are irregularly active or constantly inactive. The nationwide campaign to continue the Olympic Legacy, provides youngsters with 6-8 weeks of coaching in a range of sports and guiding them into regular participation. Active Sussex invites applications from organisations that would like to apply for funding to deliver activities. http://www.activesussex.org/funding-insight/sportivate-funding/

Sussex Clubs for Young People

If you're in West Sussex consider free membership to Sussex Clubs for Young People.

The main benefits of SCYP membership are:

• Affiliation to SCYP automatically includes free membership to Ambition and UK Youth, with all the benefits of being part of two major national youth organisations.

• Access to our heavily subsidised activity programme. In the last year activities have included windsurfing/wakeboarding, go karting, driving for 14-17s, scuba diving, laser quest and climbing wall. We believe our programme of events improves communication, teamwork, confidence, self-esteem and awareness among the young people who attend.

•   Opportunities for activities at your premises. Some examples include Girls’ Events, Healthy Eating Workshops, DJ and Rap Sessions, Urban Nights.

•   Sports competitions and tournaments including 5-a-side football

•   Activity Camp weekends. We organise an annual weekend camp at Lodge Hill in West Sussex and a one night camp at Brook Farm in East Sussex.

•   Training programmes for young leaders. Level 1 and Level 2 OCN accredited residential weekends

•   Youth Work and Safeguarding training

•   First Aid training

•   Networking opportunities, advice and support. We can arrange for a worker to visit your club.

•   Club insurance scheme via Watson Laurie that is tailor made for youth groups and endorsed by Ambition

•   Access to the Lions 'Adopt a Youth Club' programme. This scheme creates links between a Lions Club and a youth club in the same geographic area.

•   Jump Start information toolkit for fledgling clubs - a useful document for new groups including vital information about how to set up a youth club and templates for policies and procedures.

for more information visit http://www.sussexcyp.org.uk/

If you're in East Sussex consider joining the Spark Network for voluntary organisations. They are free to join and they offer advice, traning and funding opportunities.
For more information visit their website: http://www.sparknetwork.org.uk/

YMCA Right Here activities

Here is the latest booklet about activities arranged by Right Here – our project aimed at promoting mental health and wellbeing among young people In Brighton and Hove.
To download the poster follow here: http://youth.chichester.anglican.org/documents/training/right-here-activities-guide/

This summer we will be launching our Orphans project in Uganda. It’s still in its early stages planning, but I’m wondering if you’ll be able to help me engage with youth leaders. What’s the best way to let them know about his project?

The project
Aim for UK youth
•   Engaging young people and helping them to grow in faith
•   Empowering young people to take action on social issues

Context for Ugandan youth

•   Living in communities ravaged by the HIV/AIDS epidemic, thousands of Ugandan children are left both orphaned and vulnerable. They’re often forced away from the land – to a life of crime, child labour or even prostitution. Together we can offer these children an alternative, by teaching them vital life skills so they can grow and eat nutritious food, attend school and have happy, healthy futures. Together, we can give them a life any parent would wish for.

•   These young people and their carers need help, and Send a Cow workers on the ground act as mentors, providing them with physical and emotional support. Young people need someone to fill the skills gap left from the tragic death of their parents. Send a Cow will provide 200 families made up of brothers, sisters and their carers, with a variety of training which shows how to grow enough food, how to keep clean and healthy, how to collect water and how to survive adolescence. More so they will help the orphaned and vulnerable children to combat depression and low self-esteem. These children can live long and happy lives and be contributing members of their local communities and the national economy.
What we hope to do
•   This summer we will proving youth groups with information about the orphans project in Uganda. In response to what they hear we hope that they will want to be God’s love in action.

•   The Big Picnic is a suggested response to how they can fundraise for Send a Cow’s work (although they will probably have many good ideas of their own!). This is an opportunity for them to organise an event which will make a difference - something as simple as the Big Picnic could be a fantastic opportunity for an outreach event.

How can you help Send a Cow?
•   We are looking for some youth group leaders to trial the project and offer feedback
•   If you are interested please contact ann.hatton@sendacow.org or 01225 871920

The Hub

The Hub is a network of youth workers from churches in and around Mid Sussex. For more information contact Jonny Lewis youth@standrewsbh.org.uk

Or check out the facebook page here

Vacancies

To advertise a job vacancy here please contact dan.jenkins@chichester.anglican.org

Have an awesome and blessed day
Dan

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