Norfolk Community Foundation has recently offered a grant to Welney St Mary's PCC to fund a playworker for the school summer holidays. This is the third year that this support has been provided.
Becca Dommett, Children and Families Missioner at All Saints Huntingdon, has recently started a new toddler group, based on sensory, experience led play as a way to inhabit a bible story. Using tuff trays, sensory experiences and a bit of the EYFS curriculum, it is a safe and welcoming space to let the children explore and create relationships with the adult.
Volunteers in Meldreth and Melbourn have come up with a new and sustainable way to engage with children and families who only come occasionally to church, making it possible to run an impromptu session if any children walk through the door on a Sunday morning.
Bob Chappell, volunteer at Bar Hill Church, talks about how he resolved to put children at the centre of their Good Friday service.
Read the Summer 2026 edition of our Growing Younger Newsletter to hear about all things Children, Youth and Families, with information on resources, news, training, and opportunities for networking.
Training for anyone working with children and young people in our churches
New edition of the Youth Digital Detox Prayer Devotional Available
Read the March 2026 edition of our Growing Younger Newsletter to hear about all things Children, Youth and Families, with information on resources, news, training, and opportunities for networking.
The 30K Project mailing is the place to read all the latest news from this nationally funded project, which aims to bring about change to raise up 30,000 new people into ministry with children, young people and their families (CYPF) by 2030.
Would you like to start or develop relationships, explore closer links and mutual understanding with your local school?
The Diocese is launching Stage 1 (Pilot) of the Growing Younger Mission Project, a bold initiative to invest in mission and ministry with children and young people.
Parenting for Faith have developed a free training video to use with your team to explore how children and youth groups can be a safe and welcoming space for every child or young person to connect with God.
Read the November 2025 edition of our Growing Younger Newsletter to hear about all things Children, Youth and Families, with information on resources, news, training, and opportunities for networking.
Cheeky Pandas is one of a kind: a British-made Christian cartoon series, freely available, Bible-based, fun, friendly, music-based and with stacks of extra resources to serve parents, schools and churches.
Read the August 2025 edition of our Growing Younger Newsletter to hear about all things Children, Youth and Families, with information on resources, news, training, and opportunities for networking.
31 children and 9 adults, along with 26 backpacks, received a 'back to school' blessing during a service at St John's Church, Waterbeach in September last year.
Leightonstone Churches welcomed 150 children from local schools to an Experience Easter Event.
Our second Catalyst Cohort joined other participants from other diocese, to receive their certificates from Ridley Hall in May at the end of their training.
Read the Summer 2025 edition of our Growing Younger Newsletter to hear about all things Children, Youth and Families, with information on resources, news, training, and opportunities for networking.
Register for upcoming Intergenerate UK webinars and watch back previous sessions.
