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A resource to help you set up a toddler group in your church. this will give oyu an understanding of why they are important and what you could use to help you.

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24 Advent cards which you could use as an advent calendar in your churches or give to people in your community. Just print them out.

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Some missional ideas for your church to use during Christmas and Advent.

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Daphne and Bethan Fund application form.

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Daphne and Bethan Fund application form.

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If you wish to apply for funds from the Daphne and Bethan Fund then please download this application form and speak to Judy Harris the CYDO.

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Welcome to Wisdom Quest - a free downloadable resource for those running holiday clubs for children aged between 5-11 years of age.

Tying in with our theme for the year, Wise Words, we are all invited to begin the quest of searching for God's wisdom, wisdom of wise words, wise actions and wise lives. Through

out the Bible we find words to live by, particularly the 'I am...' statements, words of affirmation and words of love. We will explore some of these stories while thinking about how we can share our wisdom with others. So grab your backpack, magnifying glass and compass and come join in the quest!

This material is not designed to be prescriptive, although you may use it that way if you wish. Nor is it designed to be exclusive; feel free to swap and change the ideas for ones you think more suitable for your groups. It is written as a five-day plan but you may decide to do a one-day extravaganza, a club once a week through the holidays, or maybe just select a couple of the sessions to do on two or three days in the week.

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Welcome to the Time Travellers - a free downloadable resource for those running holiday clubs for children aged between 5-11 years of age.

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A set of printable cards to help you start a conversation about young people; their lives; why and how we might seek to be a more inclusive faith community.

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Section: Where are the Young People? | Conversation Starters | URC Learning Hub

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This ‘book’ is where you begin - click the green icon to get your conversations started

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Worship and explore together using bricks.

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Some tips to help you set up a good creche.

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Setting up and running an effective creche (3)

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The Children’s and Youth Work Committee is there to support children and youth activities and the training of existing and potential children and youth workers. This grant can support an individual’s participation in an activity.

Grants can be made towards the cost of attendance, required materials and/or travel. The type of activities which might warrant support include:

1. Attendance at children’s or URC youth activity at local church, Synod or Assembly level;

2. Training events for existing or potential children and/or youth workers involved in either running or development of children and youth work activities within the United Reformed Church or ecumenically;

3. Participation in URC International exchanges, visits, etc or other activities for the development of the individual;

4. A child or young person attending events which will help them grow in their Christian faith.

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The Children's and Youth Work Committee is there to support children and youth activities and the training of existing and potential children and youth workers. This grant can support an individual 's participation in an activity.

Grants can be made towards the cost of attendance, required materials and/or travel. The type of activities which might warrant support include:

1. Attendance at children's or URC youth activity at local church, Synod or Assembly level;

2. Training events for existing or potential children and/or youth workers involved in either running or development of children and youth work activities within the United Reformed Church or ecumenically;

3. Participation in URC International exchanges, visits, etc or other activities for the development of the individual;

4. A child or young person attending events which will help them grow in their Christian faith.

The Children's and Youth Work Committee may not be able to fund all requests and thus cannot guarantee that every request will be successful. Applications will be looked at more favourably if the applicant has done some fundraising and/or received some other funding towards the cost of the trip (ie from the local church, Synod, local community).

The Children's and Youth Work Committee will also not award to the same person two years running and priority would be given to a person that has not received before.

We would normally give up to 50% of the overall cost and up to:

£200 for an activity in the UK;

£350 for an activity in the European Region;

£500 for an activity in the rest of the world.

but it may be less than this depending on the overall costs.

No more than £500 per person will be awarded to an individual for any one grant. Individual applications from members of the same group will be considered as a group application (e.g. a group of young people from one local church attending an event together) and should be submitted using the group application form.

Applicants for this grant must be associated with a United Reformed Church and have the backing of their church leadership. We request a referee to support your application. Please allow sufficient time for us to contact your referee before your claim is considered. With this in mind, please apply at least six weeks before the event.

If you are successful, following your attendance at the event we request that you submit a report, which could be written and illustrated with photographs or PowerPoint presentation or in some other media, to the Children's and Youth Work Office which may be published on the website.

Individuals may also apply through their synods for a discipleship development grant of up to £200 for training and opportunities that meet the discipleship development criteria. Please contact your synod CYW representative for more details.

Application forms

If you open these with Adobe Reader rather than in your web browser, you can fill them in, save them and email them back to us without needing to print, scan or post them.

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Find out what grants are available to help support children and youth work activities and how to apply for them

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Discipleship grants for Children and youth work for groups

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Discipleship grants for Children and youth work for groups

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The new discipleship-based small grant fund for Children’s and Youth Work is part of the Discipleship Development Fund which is intended to contribute to the development of lay people of all ages . This means the purposes for which it can be used are as broad as can be generated by creativity and vocation, in line with the aims of the URC’s Discipleship Development Strategy (DDS), which are to equip the people of the United Reformed Church to:

Create opportunities for everyone to encounter the living God, whether they already identify themselves as followers of Christ or not

Encourage everyone in their prayer life and relationship with God to enable them to live as disciples of Jesus

Encourage everyone to make the most of education opportunities that are relevant and appropriate for them in their discipleship journey (eg events, conferences, courses, resources).

These awards are fundamentally aimed at Lay Discipleship Development and not intended to have mission as their main focus and priority. Groups and can apply for a Mission Enabling grant of up to £1000 (or £6,000 over 3 years)

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The Children's and Youth Work Committee is there to support children and youth activities and the training of existing and potential children and youth workers. This grant can support an individual 's participation in an activity.

Grants can be made towards the cost of attendance, required materials and/or travel. The type of activities which might warrant support include:

1. Attendance at children's or URC youth activity at local church, Synod or Assembly level;

2. Training events for existing or potential children and/or youth workers involved in either running or development of children and youth work activities within the United Reformed Church or ecumenically;

3. Participation in URC International exchanges, visits, etc or other activities for the development of the individual;

4. A child or young person attending events which will help them grow in their Christian faith.

The Children's and Youth Work Committee may not be able to fund all requests and thus cannot guarantee that every request will be successful. Applications will be looked at more favourably if the applicant has done some fundraising and/or received some other funding towards the cost of the trip (ie from the local church, Synod, local community).

The Children's and Youth Work Committee will also not award to the same person two years running and priority would be given to a person that has not received before.

We would normally give up to 50% of the overall cost and up to:

£200 for an activity in the UK;

£350 for an activity in the European Region;

£500 for an activity in the rest of the world.

but it may be less than this depending on the overall costs.

No more than £500 per person will be awarded to an individual for any one grant. Individual applications from members of the same group will be considered as a group application (e.g. a group of young people from one local church attending an event together) and should be submitted using the group application form.

Applicants for this grant must be associated with a United Reformed Church and have the backing of their church leadership. We request a referee to support your application. Please allow sufficient time for us to contact your referee before your claim is considered. With this in mind, please apply at least six weeks before the event.

If you are successful, following your attendance at the event we request that you submit a report, which could be written and illustrated with photographs or PowerPoint presentation or in some other media, to the Children's and Youth Work Office which may be published on the website.

Individuals may also apply through their synods for a discipleship development grant of up to £200 for training and opportunities that meet the discipleship development criteria. Please contact your synod CYW representative for more details.

Application forms

If you open these with Adobe Reader rather than in your web browser, you can fill them in, save them and email them back to us without needing to print, scan or post them.

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Find out what grants are available to help support children and youth work activities and how to apply for them

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To support churches in running holiday clubs, the Children’s and Youth Work committee offer a grant of either £50 or £100 towards the costs of resources, snacks, decorations, equipment etc. Those who receive a grant will be asked to report back with a story about their holiday club and, where possible, photographs which can be shared more widely to encourage others. Please note that this grant cannot be applied for over more than three consecutive years or more than once within the same year.

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The Children's and Youth Work Committee is there to support children and youth activities and the training of existing and potential children and youth workers. This grant can support an individual 's participation in an activity.

Grants can be made towards the cost of attendance, required materials and/or travel. The type of activities which might warrant support include:

1. Attendance at children's or URC youth activity at local church, Synod or Assembly level;

2. Training events for existing or potential children and/or youth workers involved in either running or development of children and youth work activities within the United Reformed Church or ecumenically;

3. Participation in URC International exchanges, visits, etc or other activities for the development of the individual;

4. A child or young person attending events which will help them grow in their Christian faith.

The Children's and Youth Work Committee may not be able to fund all requests and thus cannot guarantee that every request will be successful. Applications will be looked at more favourably if the applicant has done some fundraising and/or received some other funding towards the cost of the trip (ie from the local church, Synod, local community).

The Children's and Youth Work Committee will also not award to the same person two years running and priority would be given to a person that has not received before.

We would normally give up to 50% of the overall cost and up to:

£200 for an activity in the UK;

£350 for an activity in the European Region;

£500 for an activity in the rest of the world.

but it may be less than this depending on the overall costs.

No more than £500 per person will be awarded to an individual for any one grant. Individual applications from members of the same group will be considered as a group application (e.g. a group of young people from one local church attending an event together) and should be submitted using the group application form.

Applicants for this grant must be associated with a United Reformed Church and have the backing of their church leadership. We request a referee to support your application. Please allow sufficient time for us to contact your referee before your claim is considered. With this in mind, please apply at least six weeks before the event.

If you are successful, following your attendance at the event we request that you submit a report, which could be written and illustrated with photographs or PowerPoint presentation or in some other media, to the Children's and Youth Work Office which may be published on the website.

Individuals may also apply through their synods for a discipleship development grant of up to £200 for training and opportunities that meet the discipleship development criteria. Please contact your synod CYW representative for more details.

Application forms

If you open these with Adobe Reader rather than in your web browser, you can fill them in, save them and email them back to us without needing to print, scan or post them.

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Find out what grants are available to help support children and youth work activities and how to apply for them

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CYWC is offering small grants (£50 or £100) from the Discipleship Development Fund to URC local churches to strengthen their relationship with a uniformed group (Boys’ Brigade, Girls’ Brigade, Guiding or Scouting).

The purpose of the grant must be to pay towards something which will foster, build or improve the relationship between the local church and one or more uniformed children’s and/or youth groups with a connection to the church.  This could be anything from provision of accommodation to funding a suitable event or activity.  The church might host a sleepover event, donate resources or give URC Children and/or URC Youth cloth badges to the members; or the groups might organise a cleanup of the church gardens, redecoration of the space they use, joint eco project or other creative idea. This could be matched funding to a URC Guide & Scout Fellowship grant (see www.urcgsf.org.uk) or a stand-alone grant.

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The Children's and Youth Work Committee is there to support children and youth activities and the training of existing and potential children and youth workers. This grant can support an individual 's participation in an activity.

Grants can be made towards the cost of attendance, required materials and/or travel. The type of activities which might warrant support include:

1. Attendance at children's or URC youth activity at local church, Synod or Assembly level;

2. Training events for existing or potential children and/or youth workers involved in either running or development of children and youth work activities within the United Reformed Church or ecumenically;

3. Participation in URC International exchanges, visits, etc or other activities for the development of the individual;

4. A child or young person attending events which will help them grow in their Christian faith.

The Children's and Youth Work Committee may not be able to fund all requests and thus cannot guarantee that every request will be successful. Applications will be looked at more favourably if the applicant has done some fundraising and/or received some other funding towards the cost of the trip (ie from the local church, Synod, local community).

The Children's and Youth Work Committee will also not award to the same person two years running and priority would be given to a person that has not received before.

We would normally give up to 50% of the overall cost and up to:

£200 for an activity in the UK;

£350 for an activity in the European Region;

£500 for an activity in the rest of the world.

but it may be less than this depending on the overall costs.

No more than £500 per person will be awarded to an individual for any one grant. Individual applications from members of the same group will be considered as a group application (e.g. a group of young people from one local church attending an event together) and should be submitted using the group application form.

Applicants for this grant must be associated with a United Reformed Church and have the backing of their church leadership. We request a referee to support your application. Please allow sufficient time for us to contact your referee before your claim is considered. With this in mind, please apply at least six weeks before the event.

If you are successful, following your attendance at the event we request that you submit a report, which could be written and illustrated with photographs or PowerPoint presentation or in some other media, to the Children's and Youth Work Office which may be published on the website.

Individuals may also apply through their synods for a discipleship development grant of up to £200 for training and opportunities that meet the discipleship development criteria. Please contact your synod CYW representative for more details.

Application forms

If you open these with Adobe Reader rather than in your web browser, you can fill them in, save them and email them back to us without needing to print, scan or post them.

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Find out what grants are available to help support children and youth work activities and how to apply for them

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Instructions for Prayer prompts cards in Welsh

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Instructions for Prayer prompts cards in Welsh

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Resources to enable conversations around Eco Church and the environment.

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an editable questionnaire that you can use with young people to facilitate their participation in the eco-church scheme.

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An editable questionnaire that you can use with children to facilitate their participation in the eco-church scheme.

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A booklet that makes an ideal present for grandparents, godparents, and all who hold individual children in their hearts.

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A booklet for people who are, or as they become, godparents and grandparents, to encourage them to nurture that precious relationship.

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Welcome to Sparks and Stories - a free downloadable resource for those running holiday clubs for children aged between 5-11 years of age.

Tying in with our theme for the year, Story Story Story , we are gathering round the campfire, wrapped in our cosy camp blankets and armed with steaming mugs of hot chocolate and marshmallows on sticks to toast in the flames, as we listen to and share stories of Jesus together. What stories did Jesus tell and what stories were told about him? How does his story mingle with our stories? Let’s find out.

This material is not designed to be prescriptive, although you may use it that way if you wish. Nor is it designed to be exclusive; feel free to swap and change the ideas included here for ones you think more suitable for your groups. It is written as a five-day plan but you may decide to do a one-day extravaganza, a club once a week through the holidays, or maybe just select a couple of the sessions to do on two or three days in the week.

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Welcome to our free online teaching resource to help children, young people and adults become more involved in mission, global development and social justice.

The latest region we’re visiting is Zimbabwe.

There are two elements to this resource, and each one is aimed at different age groups:

Go with Greta is the name of the materials aimed at children aged between 5 and 10

#Connect2 is the name of the resources aimed at older children in the 11 to 14 age range

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Resources for everyone engaging with children, young people and young adults.

This resource explores the theme of stories – our story, God’s story, the stories Jesus told – and how the three intermingle; with an exploration of five different genres of story for all ages as well as the usual variety of articles, puzzles, colouring pages and more.

You’ll find a wide variety of ways to involve everyone, whatever their age or stage, across the year, and you will discover a wealth of material to enjoy with children, young people, young adults and in intergenerational contexts.

The resource headings for sections are only guides – please don’t limit yourself to those that most obviously fit your context as you will find great ideas you can adapt in other places.

If you don’t have any children of young people connected with your church, please:

Enjoy the colouring pages and use some of the prayers, Bible studies and other materials with your adult groups

Pray for those churches nearest to you which do, and the children and young people in your local community

Offer these resources to your nearest uniformed group or school

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A free online teaching resource to help children, young people and adults become more involved in mission, global development and social justice.

In this section we’re visiting Nicaragua.

There are two elements to this resource, and each one is aimed at different age groups:

Go with Greta is the name of the materials aimed at children aged between 5 and 10

#Connect2 is the name of the resources aimed at older children in the 11 to 14 age range

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Love is…: 2023 Children’s and Youth Work Theme

Resources for everyone engaging with children, young people and young adults

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The Synod has a range of games equipment available for churches to borrow.

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Resource library Games equipment list pdf

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Act of commissioning and dedication of children and youth workers in churches

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Act of commissioning and dedication of children and youth workers in churches

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Faith Adventures for Children Together is a free weekly resource from the United Reformed Church to support church children’s group leaders and volunteers as they plan and deliver Bible-based, child-centred, engaging sessions for ages 12 and under.

Session outlines provide ways to experience, explore and express faith together through Bible readings, stories, prayers, activities, and wondering together, with a postcard home to enable children and families to nurture their faith in daily life.

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Faith Adventures for Children Together is a free weekly resource from the United Reformed Church to support church children's group leaders and volunteers as they plan and deliver Bible-based, child-centred, engaging sessions for ages 12 and under.

Session outlines provide ways to experience, explore and express faith together through Bible readings, stories, prayers, activities, and wondering together, with a postcard home to enable children and families to nurture their faith in daily life.

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Faith Adventures for Children Together is a free weekly resource from the United Reformed Church to support church children's group leaders and volunteers as they plan and deliver Bible-based, child-centred, engaging sessions for ages 12 and under.

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Welcome to Snapshots - a free downloadable resource for those running holiday clubs for children aged between 5-11 years of age.

Tying in with our theme for the year, Love is… , we are exploring a dusty old photograph album in God’s attic, seeing what the photographs in there can tell us about our relationship with God. Adventurous, belonging, creative, brave and surprising…. Our relationship with God’s love takes all sorts of different shapes but is always something quite special.

This material is not designed to be prescriptive, although you may use it that way if you wish. Nor is it designed to be exclusive; feel free to swap and change the ideas included here for ones you think more suitable for your groups. It is written as a five-day plan but you may decide to do a one-day extravaganza, a club once a week through the holidays, or maybe just select a couple of the sessions to do on two or three days in the week.

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Instructions for prayer prompts cards age 8-12 in Welsh.

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Instructions for prayer prompts cards age 8-12 in Welsh.

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Here you will find free resources that contain suggestions for a holiday club for 5 to 11-year-olds. It also contains appendices for intergenerational, toddlers, 11 to 14s and vintage holiday clubs.

You can download the whole resource theme, individual sections, activity sheets, colouring-in sheets, music sheets and lyrics, and additional drama – build your holiday club your way.

Each holiday we produce a new theme, but the material is not designed to be prescriptive, although you may use it that way if you wish. Feel free to swap and change the ideas included here for ones you think are more suitable for your groups.

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Welcome to the Time Travellers - a free downloadable resource for those running holiday clubs for children aged between 5-11 years of age.

Tying in with our theme for the year, Jubilee, we are travelling through time together to meet some of the children of the Bible and see what they can teach us about following God, listening to God, meeting with God, belonging to God and worshipping God – what can we bring back with us to the present day and our ongoing journey of faith?

This material is not designed to be prescriptive, although you may use it that way if you wish. Nor is it designed to be exclusive; feel free to swap and change the ideas included here for ones you think more suitable for your groups. It is written as a five-day plan but you may decide to do a one-day extravaganza, a club once a week through the holidays, or maybe just select a couple of the sessions to do on two or three days in the week.

You can adapt this holiday club material in a variety of ways and the appendices at the back of the resource will give you suggestions and ideas of how to do so for various different settings.

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A free online teaching resource that we hope will help enable more children, young people and adults to become more involved in mission, global development and social justice.

The resource has two elements aimed at different age groups:

Go with Greta

This is the name of the materials aimed at children aged between 5 and 10

#Connect 2

This is the name of the resources aimed at older children in the 11 to 14 age range

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Heroes and Villians Themed resource book 

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Heroes and Villians Themed resource book 

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Heroes & Villains is the theme for our children’s and youth work in 2021.

Gathered in this downloadable resource pack, you will find a wealth of material to use and adapt for your work with children, young people, or young adults and in intergenerational contexts, all centred around the theme for the year.

Be creative. Don’t limit yourself to looking only at the section that most obviously fits your context, as you will find that there is plenty that can be adapted.

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Faith adventures for Children together How to use this resource

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Faith adventures for Children together How to use this resource

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Faith Adventures for Children Together   Walk through guide

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Downloads and resources to help you in churches

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Downloads and resources to help you in churches

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Here you can find resources, downloads and admin papers connected to children and youth work within the church.

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This update from the Children's and Youth Work team is produced every two months and includes news, events, opportunities, reviews, resources and more from the United Reformed Church to inform your ministry with children, young people, young adults and families and your prayers for this ministry.

September 2023 (PDF | 2mb)

Sign up to receive copies of this update to your email inbox here: https://forms.office.com/r/JbGkC6fdKe

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This update from the Children's and Youth Work team is produced every two months and includes news, events, opportunities, reviews, resources and more from the United Reformed Church to inform your ministry with children, young people, young adults and families and your prayers for this ministry.

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Resources, support and activities to help make your church family-friendly and welcoming to parents, children and young people

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Resources for everyone engaging with children, young people and young adults.

This resource unpacks the biblical theme of jubilee, and explores ways to commemorate the past, celebrate the present and create the future together.

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Instructions for Prayer prompt cards ages 8-12

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Instructions for Prayer prompt cards ages 8-12