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 communites of Poole and the surrounding area.

[DETACHED & OUTREACH]
From early on, The Farside has been involved in detached work and outreach projects, including running a summer drop-in café project in Poole High Street. These were well attended (in large part due to the free doughnuts) and so we felt that we should develop these further. In 2005 we purchased a mobile café unit and have used this for setting up youth outreach activities in various locations around Poole and Bournemouth, including Kinson, Turlin Moor, Rossmore and West Howe.

The café project has now developed into setting up longer-term cafés that will have outreach workers working alongside the projects. The first of these is being established at St John’s Church in Upper Parkstone. An informal drop in facility is open on a Wednesday evenings and is attracting many young people who usually hang around the shopping area. If you would like to volunteer to help in this, please get in touch with Marie Willis.

[360]
Are you a young person who cares passionately about poverty, injustice, bullying, sexual morality, the environment, and seeing Christian values impact society? Do you want to do something about this? Do you have thoughts about The Farside and how you would like to see it develop? Do you want to share these thoughts with others?

If so, then get involved in the ‘360’ discussion and action days. Details of these activities will be updated on this website as they develop, but you can get involved now by contacting Lisa Ellaway (the 360 Project Leader).

 
  The Farside is run by a group of youth workers, ministers and young people from various churches across the Poole, Wimborne & Ferndown area. Click here to get in touch.