After School / Lunch Time Clubs

Lighthouse Trust has had the privilege of being involving in the life of various churches and communities to help support the work amongst children up to the age of twelve. This work has ranged from establishing an after schools club, running a lunchtime club in a school and integrating some of these children into a church youth club.
 
Case History
  • Lighthouse Trust ran a lunchtime club which attracted between 15 and 25 children at Emmanuel Middle School, Northampton. In 2004 the format was changed to offer an hour instead of the 20 minutes, so an after-schools Christian Club, called ‘Firew@ll’ was started. A number of these children then went on to join the Abington Christian Centre Youth Club as regular members. 
  • Astcote Methodist Church wanted to expand their children’s and young peoples work in the community and so approached Lighthouse Trust for help and support, and a partnership was established with a view to regenerate the work among young people by establishing a sustainable church project in the community. This was a shared partnership with a view to firstly, to encourage and envision those already responsible for the children’s work and secondly, by training and releasing others to take responsibility.
Lighthouse initially took responsibility for these projects and gradually integrated local church volunteers in running the clubs - these projects in Pattishall, Astcote and Eastcote, in Lings and Abington in Northampton, have seen good numbers of children and families connected to local churches in the area. They are fully integrated into a local church and continue to play an important role in the community.  
 
We can offer short term support of between three and six months to help get the project off the ground, help support and train workers so a church can take on the long term responsibility of running the project. If you would like some practical support for a project that you are thinking about, or if you want to kick-start an old one into new life, then get in touch with us.


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