Silver Cross Youth Club
We meet most Fridays at 7.45pm and take part in a wide variety of activities. We
have a number of outings in the year which often include sporting activities, for example Curling, Karting and Golf.
Our main February event this year was the World Vision 24 hour famine. We combined it with Kent Youth's Midnight Ice-skating event. When this finished at 3am we came back for a 'sleep over' and finished with a celebratory cooked breakfast. The famine is one of the biggest young people's events in the UK, and it's a global phenomenon with over 1 million teens from almost every continent expected to take part. Money raised will go to support young people in Keembe, Zambia. Their biggest problems are high levels of poverty, uncertain food supplies, malaria and malnutrition.
A regular part of our programme is the Operation Christmas Child shoebox appeal. We collect small gifts and then spend an evening wrapping up the shoeboxes and sorting the gifts into boxes to be sent around the world.
We enjoy supporting St Nicholas Church with a stall at the annual Christmas
Fayre and taking part in the Friends of
Kent Churches cycle ride.