NEW FOR 2024-25 AND 2025-26
Animate is looking for Team Members (age 18-22) to assist with their work both this year and the coming academic year. We are trying something new this year and are offering three options:
1. A full gap year living in community and working with our diocesan schools and parishes and involved in the Lourdes pilgrimage, Confirmation preparation, the Faith in Action award and much more. From September 2025-July 2026
2. A half year living in community working in a similar way as above. Starting this academic year January 2025 to July 2025. Or next academic year September ’25 – December ’25, or Jan ’26 – July ’26.
3. Assist at certain points in the year in your own time. To give individuals experience and opportunity of being involved in retreats and other youth events but while living at home and with fewer long-term commitments. Training will be given in September (2025) or January (2025 and 2026).
More information about how these options might look (living in community and the type of work that we do) can be found below:
Get In Touch…
Get in touch with us for an informal chat on 01744 740463 or admin@animateyouth.co.uk
Or download an Application Form here.
And a Role Description here.
If you would like to know more about life on the Animate Team…
What We Do
Here at Animate, we have both a Leadership team and a Gap Year team, who work alongside each other for an academic year delivering School and Parish Day Retreats and Mission Days, as well as our School Mission Weeks.
The majority of our work is with High School pupils up to University, with the age range of 11 – 25, but we do get the occasional Primary School or Parish Group that would be interested in us working with them – which makes a nice change!
The work, over the course of a year, can be varied. Some years can have few School Mission Weeks, with lots of in house Day Retreats, or a 50/50 split between the two.
Community Life
Not only does the Team work together, we also live together as a community at Lowe House in St. Helens.
As a Christian community, we begin and end each day with prayer in our very own chapel (which is quite nice, even if we do say so ourselves!) as well as the other communal treats such as cooking for up to 9 other people!
We also manage to find time to socialise together, either heading out to local places such as Manchester, Blackpool and Liverpool, or just going out for a meal instead of cooking and cleaning ourselves!
Where Can It Lead Me?
