Category Archives: DBYN

Back to the Future

By admin | Published: 28/02/2013

22nd-25th November Back to the Future took place at Savio House in Bollington, UK. Although the weather was wet and a little cold the participants were full of life, energy and enthusiasm to explore the idea of taking their voluntary experiences and building the future. 25 Participants from 8 countries took part. We were pleased [...]

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DBYN Network meeting – Confe Don Bosco

By Gina Hindley | Published: 21/11/2012

ON the 11th to the 14th October, myself and Partick Kerridge attended a DBYN network meeting in Logroño, Spain. The meeting was hosted by the Spanish youth ministry team, Confe Don Bosco, who were also holding their 17th congress of the Salesian youth centres at the same time. Confe Don Bosco were concentrating on how [...]

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DBYN in Munich

By John McCormick and Ste Lloyd | Published: 14/03/2012

Between the 8th of March and the 11th march 2012, we attended a seminar in the German City of Munich, as participants from Salesian Youth Ministry UK. The Seminar was entitled ‘Generations of Participation’ and was aimed at allowing us to learn from the messages of Older SDBs, FMA’s and Salesian Co-operators. This was primarily [...]

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Leave Now!

By Megan Russell | Published: 18/12/2011

The title may suggest that we arrived at this DBYN seminar in Vienna just to be told to leave, but thankfully not! After 14 or so hours of travelling, I arrived to the Studentenheim Don Bosco to a warm welcome from the Salesian community and the volunteers who had already arrived. The volunteers were getting [...]

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Meet ME in Malta

By Gina Hindley | Published: 25/08/2011

From the 8th – 16th August 2011 MEET ME gave young people from 8 different European countries a chance to exchange traditions and build friendships through various fun activities, all under the beautiful Maltese sun. Looking back over the past week and trying to remember everything that was crammed in all I can think is [...]

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Three Islands Meeting

By Megan Russell | Published: 28/06/2011

After the success of the 3-Islands meeting in Bollington last year, the Youth Ministry teams of the British, Irish and Maltese Provinces descended upon Maynooth for a weekend of sharing and learning. The working motif for the weekend was ‘a journey to, in and from the desert’, as in the desert, our questions may not [...]

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DBYN Elects New President

By admin | Published: 30/04/2011

After 3 years Fr Bob Gardner finished his time as DBYN president and on the 11th of March, the General Executive Body of DBYN elected Ms. Lieve Van Aerschot as the new president for DBYN. Lieve will be leading the network for the next 3 years. With this exciting new election the UK Salesian Youth Ministry [...]

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My World, One World – DBYN Youth Conference

By admin | Published: 28/02/2011

Between 18 and 23 January about 30 young people from over 10 different countries were in Bonn, Germany, to take part in an International Youth Conference “My world-one world”. The conference was the final event of a one year partnership of the Salesian NGO JUGEND DRITTE WELT and the city of Bonn. It was sponsored [...]

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Simon on step three DBYN Training

By Simon Treacy | Published: 22/11/2010

A bitterly British cold wind came to greet us as we stepped off the plane at Heathrow. Tired yet exhilarated from the our time on the DBYN Step 3 Training for Trainers course in Malta, we had spent the journey reminiscing on our highlights of the last seven days. It had been quite a week. It had begun the [...]

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European Youth Forum, Turin

By John McQuaid | Published: 07/12/2009

The Council of Members (COMEM) of the European Youth Forum took place in Turin, on 13-14 November 2009. The event, which gathered more than 150 delegates from the 99 Member Organisations of the European Youth Forum was co-organised by the European Youth Forum and the Italian National Youth Council in cooperation with the City of [...]

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