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Job Title: Parish Youth Worker AND Community Youth Worker
Employer: Archdiocese of Birmingham
Salary: See ad - salary + contribution to living costs
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Job Title: Parish Youth Minister
Employer: Diocese of Northampton
Salary: £22,000 pa
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Job Title: Chaplaincy Apprentice
Employer: St Philip Howard Catholic School
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Job Title: Lay Chaplain
Employer: St Thomas More Catholic School & Sixth Form College - Holy Spirit Catholic Multi Academy
Salary: £25,463.00 fte
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Job Title: Parish Youth Worker
Employer: Our Lady and All Saints RC Church Otley / Diocese of Leeds
Salary: £20,500
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Job Title: Lay Chaplain
Employer: Diocese of Nottingham
Salary: See Job Spec: Salary + subsidised accommodation + further benefits
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Job Title: Retreat Team Volunteers
Employer: Savio House, Salesians of Don Bosco UK
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Job Title: Gap Year Team
Employer: Animate Youth Ministries, Archdiocese of Liverpool
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Job Title: Team Volunteer
Employer: St Cassian's, Kintbury
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Job Title: Gap Year Volunteer
Employer: Castlerigg Manor
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Job Title: Gap Year Volunteer
Employer: Kenelm Youth Trust
Read moreResources at Random
What’s the Story with Lent?
Our Deepest Desire
Pope Francis: Make Disciples of All Nations
Resources for National Youth Sunday out now.
Resources are now available for this year’s National Youth Sunday, on 26th November, the feast of Christ the King. Read more
BBC News on Northern Irish Abortion Law
Laudate Si Resource
This is a video produced by the Vatican to go out as they publish the whole forty thousand word document. It is in English, as well as Italian and Spanish. Read more
Fan the Flame #4 – CAFOD
One organisation which can play a vital part in your efforts to build on the Flame experience is CAFOD. Read more
The Nativity Factor
Holy Week in 2 Minutes
CAFOD Climate Comic Campaigning!
This 60 min+ workshop for young people from CAFOD explores how comics are used for campaigning around the world and gives young people the opportunity to create their own. You can find all the resources here.
Franz Jägerstätter
Music for Lent from CJM Music
CJM Music has settings for each of the five Sundays of lent – and they are free to download.
Latest Resources
Resources to explore Synod and Christus Vivit
New resources created by young adults unpackage the Synod Final Document and Pope Francis’s exhortation, and offer reflections for youth workers.
Three Friends and the Miracle Man – Easter resources for younger children
The Bible Society’s new animated video takes Jairus’s daughter and the boy with the five loaves and two fishes on a journey where they discover who Jesus really is.
The video is on YouTube, and you can download it free from the Bible Society website, in English or Welsh. There is also a script and all-age service guide to enable you to explore the life, death and resurrection of Jesus and bring Three Friends and the Miracle Man to life at your church.
Journey through Lent with Missio – Secondary age
Missio’s resources for Lent 2019 include reflections that explore key words and concepts from the season, linking them with themes and actions that young people in the Secondary school age range can readily engage with and respond to. The three reflections have leaders’ notes and a set of PowerPoint slides, and feature the story of a young person supported by Missio. Each reflection can be delivered within 10 minutes – with or without the slides.
There is also a simple and accessible Stations of the Cross resource, which encourages young people to reflect on the lessons communicated through Jesus’ journey to the cross and apply them to contemporary issues. The resource is presented as a PowerPoint with leaders’ notes incorporated that suggest alternative ways to use the Stations.
Lent resources include Stations of the Cross for primary
This year’s Lent resources from Mission Together include a Stations of the Cross liturgical resource for the first time. Read more
Give it up – Lent resources from CAFOD
CAFOD has released a range of resources and guides for the ‘Give it up’ Lent campaign, including video, assemblies, prayer and liturgy, fundraising ideas; an ‘action a day’ calendar, and templates for publicising school events and fundraising.in newsletters and to local media.
Explore world changing principles with Million Minutes
Million Minutes develops new and innovative projects that help empower young people, inspired by the principles of Catholic social teaching, to reach out to those in need. Pictured above is Amy (from For Jimmy) a recipient of siLENT.
They’re offering assemblies and workshops to Catholic schools in England and Wales over the coming year to encourage young people to take an active role in social action and inspire them to change their world – arrange yours now!
Catechetical lessons for WYD prep & other uses
Panama2019 has produced a set of catechetical lessons to help prepare young people spiritually for January’s World Youth Day. The lessons can be downloaded as pdfs, and cover a range of topics and a variety of activities, following the ‘see, judge. act’ model.
Mission Together Advent 2018 resources
Mission Together has created new liturgies, assemblies and craft activities for 2018 to help primary age groups journey through Advent.
Refugee resources for young people
CAFOD has a range of resources for helping young people (secondary age) to engage with the issues around the global refugee crisis, including the short animation above.
News & Blog
Your young people deserve to be celebrated!
Celebrating Young People Awards 2019
Who will you nominate?
On 3 July 2019 young people from across the country will gather in London’s West End for the Celebrating Young People Awards. Cardinal Vincent Nichols will be presenting this year’s Pope Francis Award. The awards – now in their fourth year – are organised by Million Minutes and see hundreds of young people nominated in six categories, each celebrating a different aspect of Catholic Social Teaching lived out in social action. Read more
Go siLENT to shout out for young people
Lent is only a few weeks away, so why not sign up for siLENT 2019, as a school or parish group, or just on your own? You’ll find some stillness in our frantic world, and the sponsorship you raise will support young people in transforming their lives and their world.
Nominations now open for 2019 Celebrating Young People Awards!
Nominations are now open for the fourth Celebrating Young People Awards. The awards – powered by Catholic charity Million Minutes – honour the achievements of young people across the country who make our communities better places. There are eight award categories, which take their names from Catholic social teaching and recognise the enormous, often unseen, social action of young people. Above: Last year’s Pope Francis Award recipient was Aaron, from Loreto College Manchester. Read more
Was Panama too far? Save 20% on tickets for WYD@Home!
World Youth Day in Panama was amazing – but many of us joust couldn’t be there to soak up that inspirational atmosphere. You and your group can still get that uplifting WYD experience at WYD@Home, hosted at Alton Castle from 7-9 June, and with the superearlybird offer, if you hurry, you can save 20% on all types of ticket.
Visit the new WYD@Home website to find out more and book.
The inside track on Flame 2019! Got your tickets?
Fr Dominic Howarth, Chair of the Flame core group, and Fr Dermott Donnelly, CYMFed Chair, have more info on Flame 2019, and why it’s going top be a great event to bring your young people to.
The CYMFed Flame Congress is now just 8 weeks away, on 2nd March 2019, at Wembley Arena. Many parishes and school groups have already booked tickets for their young people to enjoy this amazing celebration of Catholic faith, in a vibrant atmosphere, full of joy, with content presented in a way which resonates for young people.
If your parish or school has not yet booked, there is still time, and we – as organisers – will make it as easy as possible for you. We are bringing groups ourselves, and so we will hopefully offer you all the practical information you need as you prepare to travel to Wembley, and a memorable and inspiring day when you get there.
Podcast from Ireland talks about issues young people face
Are you among the growing audience for the YouthPod Ireland podcast? Set up and hosted by four youth workers from Bray, Co Wicklow, Adam Burke, Paul Tracey, Jamie Brierton and Michael Fleming, the podcast features lively chats on issues affecting young people, including mental health, drugs and alcohol education, that will resonate wherever you do your youth work.