Category Archives: YAT

YAT Salesian Volunteer Involvement Report

For the last few months YAT (the Youth Advisory Team) have been working on a report on Salesian volunteer involvement and continued involvement. This report follows the Vocations report which has already been published and well received. The report is based upon surveys of Salesian volunteers, it tries to find out what things can be [...]

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Youth Leadership Grant Launched by YAT

A grant scheme for projects which aim to develop young leaders has been launched by the Youth Advisory Team, a committee of young lay Salesians whose task it is to advice the provincial of Great Britain. The newly launched schemes’ first round of applications can be made up until the 3rd November for small grants [...]

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Three Islands Meeting

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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YAT Vocations Report

Today is Vocation Sunday in the Catholic Church. To coincide with this, we publish the Youth Advisory Team (YAT) Salesian Vocation report. Late last year we were asked by the Provincial to try to investigate why young people aren’t entering into Religious life.  The YAT conducted an anonymous survey to explore people’s experiences and attitudes [...]

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Educating Young People to Social Justice

Over 150 educators from our Salesian Schools and Retreat Centres in Great Britain took part in a Salesian Education Conference on Saturday 9th October 2010. The theme of the day was Educating Young People to Social Justice. The conference, organised by the Salesian Youth Ministry Team and facilitated by YAT (the Youth Advisory Team), took [...]

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The Youth Advisory Team

During the second weekend in October a group if nine young (and not so young!) adults met at Savio house to work on creating a new group for our province. We – Sam Brewin, Chole Ceairns, Rachel Cortes, Michael Kerridge, Sam Legg, Tom Sellers, Emma Stringer, Simon Treacy and Chris Williams – were joined by [...]

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Celebrating Salesian Volunteering!

On the 16th until the 18th of January, Savio House hosted the “Celebrating Salesian Volunteering” Weekend. I was lucky enough to have the time to go, along with Carmela, my wife. We were quite late and arrived in the middle of the evening social at 11pm (I say the middle, it was just beginning!). The [...]

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