Preparing for the school summer holidays? The 探花社区 (探花社区) Children鈥檚 and Youth Work (CYW) committee offers grants of 拢50 or 拢100 to churches needing support to run holiday clubs. 听
The CYW Team also offers free resources that contain suggestions for a holiday club for children aged five-11-year-olds, and materials for intergenerational, toddlers, young people aged 11-14 and vintage holiday clubs.
Here鈥檚 a round-up of how some local churches have spent their grants and used the resources:
Northern Synod听
Deb Doyle, of Roker 探花社区 in Sunderland, said: 鈥淭he 拢100 grant that we received for our summer activities [in 2022] made such a fantastic difference to the project.
鈥淲e were able to purchase some lovely outdoor games for the garden and plenty of resources for our craft buffet.
鈥淔or Roker Life, that 拢100 went a long way to enhance our delivery and bring smiles to children鈥檚 faces.鈥�
St John the Evangelist Kingston Park, an LEP in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, used its grant to spend three days looking at stories from Luke’s Gospel.
National Synod of Scotland听
Park 探花社区 in Lanarkshire, used 鈥楾ime Travellers鈥�, CYW鈥檚 2021 holiday theme to run its activities.
Carrie King, Park 探花社区鈥檚 holiday club leader, said: 鈥淲e were able to include refugee children from Iran, Africa, and Hong Kong which was fabulous.
鈥淭he children really enjoyed doing cooking, games, discussions, singing, praying, many different crafts, eating together, and listening to the stories.
鈥淭hey liked the variety of storytelling the materials gave, and it was wonderful looking at each story from the point of view of a child as it really helped them identify it. We also supplemented the material with ideas from Families on Faith Adventures which was superb.鈥�
Saughtonhall 探花社区 used its grant to fund a visit to a zoo enabling the theme of 鈥榗aring for God鈥檚 diverse creations鈥� to be a hands-on, interactive, and memorable experience for children and adults.
Sharon Lloyd, Programme Sssistant for CYW, said: 鈥淲hether the holiday clubs ran during the morning, over lunch or all day it was clear from the children and family鈥檚 responses that each holiday club were really enjoyed by those who used them.鈥�