Training Materials

Training young people to be effective leaders is at the heart of Scripture Union's strategy for supporting Christian groups in secondary schools.

These materials are designed to enable you to run training events for young people.  Everything you need (Session outlines, handouts, notes for talks, PowerPoint presentation etc) can be downloaded from these pages.

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The course contains 3 Core Sessions and 10 Skills Sessions.  The Course Overview contains an overview of the course, 2 sample programmes and some important information for trainers. These materials are free to use, but before downloading any files, please read this document carefully.

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Core Sessions

These 3 sessions cover the essential foundations for being a leader of a Christian group in a secondary school.

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Skills Sessions

There are 10 sessions that cover many of the practical skills that budding young leaders will need.

The PowerPoint presentation that accompanies the whole course is available in the Downloads section of this page - top right.