Youth Link Nl

143a University Street

Belfast

B17 1HP

(T): 02890323217

(E): info@youthlink.org.uk

Contact: Paul McCrory (worker, paul@youthlink.org.uk); John Peacock (manager, john@youthlink.org.uk)

A Youth or Adult? Project 2007-2012 [JRT]

Youth Link: NI is the inter-church youth service for Northern Ireland.  It was established by the Presbyterian, Methodist, Church of Ireland and Catholic Churches in 1991. 

Youth Link: NI vision is of Churches working together to develop excellence in youth work and ministry, enabling young people and youth practitioners to be agents of transformation in a divided society.

Youth Link’s mission is to work together to:

• provide excellence in all aspects of youth work and leadership training;
• encourage and equip young people to participate in Church and society and in the building of a shared future;
• collaborate with Church bodies, youth organisations and all sectors with responsibility for young people;
• facilitate strategies for the development of youth ministry within the Churches;
• integrate equity, diversity and interdependence into all aspects of policy and practice in youth work and ministry. 

Youth Link’s training programme for youth leaders addresses the skills and issues in youth work and ministry, peace building and reconciliation.

Youth Link supports the Churches in providing opportunities for young people of different traditions and cultural backgrounds to develop mutual understanding, tolerance, acceptance and respect and to be agents of transformation in a divided society.

Youth Link’s team includes a voluntary committee as well as paid part-time / casual tutors / trainers who work alongside the full-time staff to deliver the programmes and to direct the work of Youth Link.