North East & Yorkshire Region News

Below you will see a simple feed of the latest news stories from this region, including updates from associates and affiliates and news and reports about forthcoming or past events. Click on the links for further information. If you have a news item you think could be included here then let us know and, if appropriate, we will add it. Unfortunately, we cannot always remember to keep all the news updated, so please keep us reminding if you think we have missed anything!

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3 May 2012 The new edition of our regional e-newsletter is now available.  You can view a clickable pdf version here: Regional E-Newsletter No 9 May 2012

27 Jan 2012 The January edition of our regional e-newsletter is now available. You can view a clickable pdf version here: Regional E-newsletter No 8 Jan 2012

17 Nov 2011 The November edition of our regional e-newsletter is now available. You can view a clickable pdf version here: Regional E-newsletter No 7 Nov 2011

16 Nov 2011 - Report from The MIX is now available here: Mix Report 2011

16 Nov 2011 - Dates of the new X:site events in Teesside and Halifax are now available: Children's and Young People's Events

22 - 24 Oct 2011 - The MIX Family holiday took place!

8 Oct 2011 - The 'Back to School' Conference in York was a great success!

30 Sept 2011 - The autumn edition of our regional e-newsletter is now available. You can view a clickable pdf version here: Regional E-newsletter No 6 Sept 2011

30 Sept 2011 - John Stephenson has written a report about most of this summer's regional holidays and also about the international camp to Ukraine which took place in July. Check out the details here: Holidays Report Summer 2011

27 Sept 2011 - The Hexham Mission is a great example of how churches can work together to reach out to children and young people. Read an inspiring report of this summer's event here: Report from Hexham Mission 2011

1 Jul 2011 - The July edition of our regional e-newsletter is now available. You can view a clickable pdf version here: Regional E-newsletter No 5 July 2011

31 Mar 2011 - The April edition of our regional e-newsletter is now ready to send so look out for it in your inbox in the next few days or take a sneaky peek here: Regional e-newsletter No.4 - April 2011

19 Jan 2011 - Look out for the latest regional e-newsletter in your inbox. Here is a pdf copy for those that are unable to read it: Regional e-newsletter No. 3 - January 2011

18 Jan 2011  - Report from Breakthrough: Check out the opinions of a first-time leader after spending time on our New Year holiday in Scarborough.

17 Jan 2011 - Prayer and Vision Events: 'Reaching The Next Generation'. We are proud to announce details of four vision day events with Tim Hastie-Smith in York, Leeds, Sunderland and Newcastle on 2-3 February. They are not to be missed!

7 - 16 Jan 2011 - More new content has been added to the website and other bits tweaked!

30 Dec 2010 - 2 Jan 2011 - Breakthrough - a great time was had by all!

9 Dec 2010 Regional Newsletters Page - The PDF versions of the regional e-newsletters can now all be downloaded from here: Regional Newsletters - North East & Yorkshire.

4 Dec 2010 X:Site North East, Tyneside - Sadly this event also had to be cancelled as a result of the weather.

3 Dec 2010 C.U. Leaders Training, Tyneside - Safety concerns over icy roads forced the cancellation of this training event for young people who are involved in the leadership of their school Christian Union.

25 Nov 2010 Evening Regenerate, Tyneside: 'Report on Evening Regenerate, Autumn 2010' - This cancelled event would have helped us to make those connections with children and young people in schools, in families and in the wider community. Snow, however, forced us to cancel. Another Regenerate, with a similar theme, will be scheduled to run in its place in January.

24 Nov 2010 Lifepath Vision day, Huddersfield - Come and share ideas and discuss the vision for your event. Or come and find out how you can go about setting up a Lifepath event in your area. For more information click here: Lifepath Vision Day 2010 (0.2Mb)

17 Nov 2010 Regional e-Newsletter No. 2 - November 2010 (0.2Mb) is being sent out today. For those that cannot read the email, a downloadable pdf is available by clicking the link.

16 Nov 2010 Pray Day For Schools - Why not encouarge Christians you know to pray for schools on this day?

15 Nov 2010 Skills 1: Effective Learning - now added. This provides a report of the event in Tees Valley on 2 November. A report about the West Yorkshire event will also be added to this soon.

12 Nov 2010 Huddersfield Scripture Union Partnership - An exclusive update from Guy Cooke, the HSUP schools worker has been added to the website.

11 Nov 2010 Lifepath Update - A new Lifepath event is set to be run next June in Brinkburn. Details of have been added to this website together with a report of the Lifepath event at Jervaulx, which took place in June. Check out the Connecting with The Bible page.

10 Nov 2010 Walk like an Egyptian? - John Stephenson & Andy Sykes are off to Egypt today to be involved in training leaders & writers for the High School Youth Committee. They return on 21 November.

4 Nov 2010 Evening Regenerate, West Yorkshire - This very practical training event, the first of its kind in the area, went by the title, 'Stories from SU North East Holidays 2010'.

2 Nov 2010 Evening Regenerate, Tees Valley - The first of our two-year programme of events considered the theme of 'Time for an MOT test?'.

21 Oct 2010 More Than Gold Launch - We will be doing our bit to support this excellent sporting initiative. What will you be doing to impact your community in summer 2012?

15 Oct 2010 Lifepath evaluation meeting - The Lifepath, Jervaulx team met to evaluate this year's event. Lots of good feedback and a few things we can improve on for next time. In particular it would be great to have more team. Might you join us in 2012?

12 Oct 2010 Daytime Regenerate - Howard Worsley challenged and inspired us on the topic of '', with particular reference to both ethical evangelism among children and young people and the theological context for evangelism.

11 Oct 2010 Regional e-Newsletter Autumn 2010 (0.86 Mb) - Now uploaded to this website in pdf format. Click on the link to download it.

10 Oct 2010 Hunsley Christian Youth Trust Annual Celebration. Check out the details on their website: HCYT Annual Celebration Service.

6 Oct 2010 Regional e-Newsletter - This was sent out to over 4000 people from this region who have an email address held on our national database. Did you receive it? If not and you would like to do so, please send us your email address.

23 Sept 2010 . Check out some stories from three of this summer's holidays: Fusion, The Great Adventure and Geared For Growth.

19 Sept 2010 CLiKs celebration service, 3pm at Keighley Shared Church.

14-16 Sept 2010 Staff and Associates Conference - Staff and associates away for a few days in Northampton.

13 Sept 2010 Daytime Regenerate More details about the West Yorkshire Daytime Regenerate, 'Communicating faith in a Digital World' have been added to the website, as have more details about the Evening Regenerate events.

3 Sept 2010 Daytime Regenerate More details about the forthcoming Daytime Regenerate have been added to the website.

2 Sept 2010 Website news More detail has been added to the website - especially information about Regenerate events in the North East and Yorkshire Region.

31 July 2010 Getting Away The holiday season is upon us and the first Scripture Union North East holiday starts today!

16 July 2010 Find us on Facebook Scripture Union (North East and Yorkshire Region) now has a Facebook presence!

15 July 2010 Like Dr Who, we all need to regenerate from time to time! In July we were invited to come and take a Spiritual MOT test to help us to do just that. Click on the link for more information.

10 July 2010 Cam Dunked! The final X:Site North East event of this school year was a real Cam dunker! As Cam prepared to go to university in September, so he faced the inevitable dunking!

3 July 2010 An X:siting end of year The final X:Site event of the year at Keighley Shared Church, brought this academic year's X:Sites to an end for the children of the area.

1 July 2010 Getting ethical Howard Worsley has agreed to lead our next Daytime Regenerate on the theme of 'Ethics & Evangelism'. The date of the event has been set for 12 October.

21 - 25 June 2010 Walking on the Lifepath A great time was had by all at the Lifepath event at Jervaulx Abbey. The monks had a Life-path that may not appeal to many of us today, but is important we all consider for ourselves what our Life-path is going to be. Will God have a place in it?

June - July 2010 It's Your Move! Throughout the second half of the summer term there were many 'It's Your Move' events in Leeds, Keighley, York, Spen Valley, Newcastle and at many other locations, some of them running under the alternative title 'Fast Forward'.