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Job Title: Retreat Leader
Employer: Castlerigg Manor
Salary: c £16,000 per annum + accommodation + food
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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: Chaplaincy Apprentice
Employer: St Philip Howard Catholic School
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Job Title: Lay Chaplain
Employer: All Saints Catholic College
Salary: £19,093 per annum (actual)
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Job Title: Chaplain
Employer: Our Lady's Catholic High School, Fulwood, Preston
Salary: Grade 7 Points 19 to 25 £24,779 - £28,785 (pro rata)
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Job Title: Gap Year Volunteer
Employer: Castlerigg Manor
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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 Volunteer
Employer: Kenelm Youth Trust
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Job Title: Team Volunteer
Employer: St Cassian's, Kintbury
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Job Title: Gap Year Team
Employer: Animate Youth Ministries, Archdiocese of Liverpool
Read moreResources at Random
Easter resources for younger children from the Bible Society
The Bible Society has a range of resources to use with children around Easter. The Seriously Surprising Story is a video of the disciples’ meeting with Jesus on the road to Emmaus. You can download it from the website , or play it on youTube. There is a booklet to accompany the film – minimum donation of £2 for a single copy, or £1 if ordering in bulk. Read more
Pope Francis, the most influential leader on Social Media
How To Pray The Rosary
King of Hearts – NYS 2015
The 2015 National Youth Sunday Resources are online, you can find them all here, order printed resources from Redemptorist publications, or download them directly from the Bishops Conference Website through the links below. Read more
National Youth Sunday: How Happy Are You?
National Youth Sunday is nearly upon us! The Bishops Conference has gone to town this year with some videos, resources and the communications that are planned on social media in the build up to NYS. Read more
Kid President Pep Talk
This is just fantastic!
BBC Witness, Archbishop Romero
An interesting little video that gives some of this context and history of Archbishop Romero, due for beatification later this year
A Jesuit Vocation Story
Music: Brenton Brown – Strength Will Rise
Prayer #1 – Quality vs. Quantity
In the first of our series of short thoughts on prayer, I want to start by cautioning against falling into ‘the time trap’. This is the fallacy which says that the more time for Read more
Missio Lent 2018 resources out now
For Lent 2018, Missio have produced Stations of the Cross for secondary schools and colleges. These accessible stations encourage young people to reflect on the lessons communicated through Jesus’ passion and apply them to contemporary issues. A series of CST assemblies to accompany each week of Lent are also available. Download their Lent resources at the Missio website
Mission Together Lent assemblies, activities and much loved daily Calendar, help primary schools journey meaningfully through Lent. Download all these resources at MissionTogether
YCW Christmas Resources
YCW Reflection, Can We Afford Christmas? Really interesting thing to do with groups reflecting on what we spend at Christmas – from @YCWImpact
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
International short course in Leading the New Evangelisation
St Mary’s University, Twickenham in partnership with the Australian Catholic University (ACU) is offering an International Faith Formation Leadership Programme from – .
The programme is aimed at Catholic school leaders and teachers, including religious education teachers, and Church leaders, youth ministers,parish educators and all those who work in Catholic schools on behalf of the Church.
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.
