Additional Needs provision at Spree
This summer I was privileged to be able to serve at two very different Spree weekends, the camping festival style of Spree South West with its funfair, and the outward bounds adventure style of Spree Central held at Rock UK’s Frontier Centre. Both included a diverse range of young people,...
The Boost of reimagining schoolswork together
With schools now returning all over the UK and Ireland, it’s the perfect opportunity to reflect back on the Boost Conference that took place earlier in the summer. The third Boost Conference – called Re-imagining Schoolswork – took place on 18th June at the Emmanuel Centre in London. It was the...
Reaching a generation where YOU are
“I wish I’d known about all this support 13 years ago when I began my last pastorate. It would have been so much easier to begin youth and children’s work there like this.” Many people, all over the UK and Ireland, have probably seen the need... caught a glimpse of a group of...
Rebuilding and recycling
An Urban Saints Group from Northern Ireland have just returned from building a home for a struggling family in South Africa. They took some old Urban Saints clothing out with them to give it a new home too. Now we're hoping to send more Groups out to Mexico next Easter...
"Urban Saints feels like family to me"
Some of our supporters have grown up through Crusaders / Urban Saints whereas others find us later in life, maybe as a leader or a parent. Karen Hoar’s church used Energize when she helped with the children’s group in her local church and, in March 2019, she joined the Urban Saints...
Bradford on duty
Earlier this summer, a documentary series called 'Bradford on Duty' aired on the BBC. The series highlighted the massive challenges facing the public services in one of the UK's youngest cities. With nearly 30% of its population, Bradford needs Urban Saints to be there for its young people. Watch 'Bradford on...