Projects

The Farside believes that, although it is great to be involved in worshipping a living God at our celebrations (through song, dance, drama and other expressions), we are also called to demonstrate our love for God through participating in social community action. With the help of the Poole deanery youth work project, we are developing projects that we hope will make an impact on the communities of Poole and the surrounding area.

At the end of the summer we stopped the Farside drop-in at St John's as we felt the project had now run its course and the church had started its own new youth work there.
Many thanks to all those who assisted in this outreach project working with a particularly challenging group of young people! Many a helpful conversation was had and we wish every blessing on St John's as they continue to outreach to young people in Upper Parkstone.


The good news is that we have a vision to see the development of further outreach activities in Poole and we will be visiting inter-church youth provision in other parts of the country to gain some fresh ideas for projects. We will follow this up by visiting youth workers and projects in Poole to discuss these ideas with you.
We are aware that the youth celebrations are aimed at those young people who are already involved in Christian youth groups. In order to reach out to the majority of those young people who are either on the fringe of the church or who are outside of it, we would like to start a new alternative event that introduces young people to faith in a way that is fun and is more acceptable to them. A planning group is already working on this and if you would like to get involved please do contact us.

Some time ago there was an attempt to bring different church based youth projects together in Poole to form a 'youth collective.' The idea of this group was to advocate on behalf of the churches, to provide mutual encouragement and to draw on each others strengths. We would like to re-start this initiative with The Farside acting as a facilitator.

We will be engaging in dialogue with you to see if this is something that you would like to support and be involved in.