Youth Special Interest Group

Group Aims

Activities

About the Group

by James Baker, extract from Winning Post

I have been a member of the Young SIG (Special Interest Group) in St Joseph's for several years and I have seen and learnt a great deal about the parish during that time. The basic idea of the Youth SIG is to help promote activities for young people in the Parish and to hear the point of view of those young people, in relation to schemes and developments going on within the parish, which young people might not otherwise have known about or become involved in.

The meetings take place twice a year and a large number of issues are discussed, debated, deliberated and sometimes argued about (only joking - all those who go are good friends!) At our last meeting we had a guest speaker - Mr Peter Fraher, Diocesan Youth Office who spoke of his plans for the Millennium which included a very ambitious plan to gather a huge number of young people in a field one evening, and give them all torches. They would then stand in such a way that they would create a message relating to the disposal of the Third World Debt. The Message would read: "No debt about it!" Someone probably spent hours thinking that up"

If any young people happen to be reading this article (well done if you have got this far) and feel that this is something they would like to be involved in, then they should talk to St Margarite or Fr Stephen.

See also:
11+ Activities
Gap Years
Diocesan Youth Office
Justice and Peace for Youth
Catholic Association of Young Adults
The Catholic Unattached Directory
Child Protection Policy