Youth Work Summit

If you’ve never been to a Youthwork Summit event, it’s time to join the party. Since 2010, we’ve been organising a unique annual one-day convention for every kind of Christian involved in every kind of work with young people. Why unique? Because over the course of just one day, you’ll hear more than 20 diverse voices presenting their big ideas about Christian youth work. For 5, 10… 15 minutes at the most, we ask a mix of world-leading experts and grass roots practitioners to take to the stage for a series of high-impact presentations – then create an atmosphere of interaction and engagement to ensure their ideas are accessed and developed by our delegates.

The vision behind the event was developed by Chris Curtis, Martin Saunders and Matt Summerfield during a prayer retreat together in early 2010. The question they had set out to explore: how could they and the organisations they represent (Youthscape, Youthwork magazine and Urban Saints) work together to better serve and resource youth workers? Part of the answer was to launch a new kind of youth work event, where breadth, diversity and unity are celebrated; where innovation and new ideas are the focus.

In 2010, we launched in London, where we were joined by over 500 excited early-adopters. In 2011, considerably more youth workers joined us for a stunning day in Manchester. And in 2012, we’re moving the Summit to May.

We’ll keep on moving, reinventing, and reimagining, because frankly, we can’t help it. It’s who we are, it’s what makes YWS so exciting, and it’s how we make sure we continue to serve you, the youth worker, with the very best event we can. So get ready for a very different, very brilliant Youthwork Summit 2012. Just don’t get used to it – we’ll change it all again next year.

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