YouthInc

Youth Inc is an independent local charity created to support youth ministry in rural churches across South Cambridgeshire. The charity is supported financially by local churches, individuals and grants to enable them to employ a youth worker for the project with support from Youth for Christ. Since 2017, the youth worker supports volunteers to run monthly youth groups in several village locations, and each term there is a joint event for young people. Churches had found children would disengage from church at the age of 8 or 9. Now they have 11-18 year olds growing in faith.

St Neots

The St Neots Youth Project is an initiative led by Youth for Christ to reach young people outside the church. A mentoring programme runs in local schools and young people are invited to drop-in youth cafes after-school. From time to time extended youth café sessions invite them to hear more about the Christian faith, and several churches collaborate on a trip to a Christian festival each summer. Financial contributions from local churches, alongside grant funding enable us to employ 2 part time youth workers, who have developed this work since 2021.

Hope Chesterton

Hope is a church plant in one of the more disadvantaged wards in Cambridge City. Funding from a local trust enabled them provide a 3 year placement for a Youth Ministry student, to lead the church youth programme. Further grants enabled the worker to stay on at the end of their studies, and also to appoint an additional student to work alongside. The church now supports youth ministry across church, community and local school settings, as young people with no church background are growing as disciples.

The Church Experiment

The Church Experiment gathers households in Willingham, Northstowe, Longstanton, Swavesey and Over, to the Northwest of Cambridge. They are a project of Latimer Minster, and an independent registered charity.
The Church Experiment exists for people who are not familiar with church but are curious to find out more. We believe that life with Jesus at the centre is better than any alternative. We’re a group of ordinary people looking to become a community of love in action, meeting in small intergenerational groups over a meal throughout the week, and once a month gathering in a tent for worship songs, bible teaching and an introduction to prayer.
There are two main youth work opportunities to explore at present – one is to support the work led by young people at the local secondary school, and help new believers in year 11 and 12 move forward in their faith. The other is a rising group of year 6/7 young people who will be the nucleus of a new outreach group.