Message from the Chair of the District to youth group leaders
Many of you will know that last year a number of young
people from the District (in different youth groups) combined to travel to
Greenbelt together. Subsequently many of
them led our worship at Synod in September.
It was clear to me that these young people got a great deal
from the experience and from being linked together so that there could be
further links and supportive relationships between youth groups in the
District.
It is our intention this year to pay for a coach to take
similar groups who would like to attend Greenbelt for the first time or for the
“nth” time. The purpose would be to
provide easy transport (we would pick up at various points in the District on
the Friday to travel to Greenbelt and return people to the same points on the
Monday).
The bus would be provided free of charge to all those who
wish to go. The District is not
proposing however to pay for Greenbelt tickets nor is it intending to provide
oversight for youth groups. This will
remain with the group leaders and volunteers in the normal way. Likewise tents and other material resources would
need to be provided by the groups themselves.
We would like to gather a register of interest in this idea
and for this purpose Louise Makin is the contact point.
A number of groups have already expressed interest and the
kind of questions that have arisen from the groups are around what ages we are
intending to take. This is difficult to
answer as youth groups are slightly different from each other but we are
assuming that all in the category youth will be at secondary school and most
likely in the 13+ area. There may be
possible exceptions to this that could be negotiated with Louise but the
general intention is for teenage and early twenties young people being
the norm.
Please register your interest with Louise before the end of May and if you are
intending to take a group to Greenbelt clearly you need to follow the
information on their website, via Facebook and Twitter also to keep up to date
with what is happening and about costs.
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