FYT News
FYT produces a printed newsletter 3 times a year and sends it to thousands of supporters and youth workers. Our web site draws on the articles from FYT News and other sources to keep you in touch with some of the issues that are important to us. If you wish to receive a hard copy of FYT News regularly please e-mail frontier@fyt.org.uk
Countdown to Camp!
Wednesday, 19 June 2013
In only 38 days' time, a whole bunch of people will be loading up their cars and buses and heading up to Cleethorpes for the start of Frontier Camps 2013! Right now the sun is shining, so we are free from the fears of drowning in mud that last... [more]
Frontier Youth Trust Out4Good Project, Reducing Young Offending receives 3 years funding from the Big Lottery Fund.
Friday, 07 June 2013
FYT are very pleased to announce that the Out4Good project in Colchester has been awarded funding from the Big Lottery Fund through Reaching Communities to continue its highly successful work with young offenders for a further 3 years. In addition... [more]
Mash from scratch
Friday, 10 May 2013
Recently Urban Hope has undertaken a new project to grow mash potato from scratch. The idea is to build a potato planter out of an old wooden pallet, plant and grow the potatoes and finally cook and eat them when they are ready for harvest. The... [more]
Feet On The Streets For FYT
Saturday, 20 April 2013
Thank-you very much! Alastair Jones, FYT’s CEO, completed the Manchester Marathon on April 28th 2013 in a time of 4 hrs and 17 min. So far the online donations, and cheque donations including gift aid have raised just over £750 for... [more]
The power of stories...
Thursday, 11 April 2013
Stories are powerful, and last month people gathered from across the country to write and share their stories at the StreetSpace Gathering. This is the one point in the year we come together, to gather and to share. We facilitated the weekend by... [more]
StreetSpace Young People Think Big with O2 Partnership
Thursday, 28 March 2013
Over the last two years Frontier Youth Trust and StreetSpace have worked with O2 to help young people run more than twenty community action projects. StreetSpace are an O2 Think Big youth partner, working with the National Youth Agency to support... [more]
Would you accept a cup of free coffee?
Thursday, 28 March 2013
Liam* is 25. He is thin and short and could be taken for 14. He has no friends or family. His mum died when he was 10 of a heroin overdose and his Dad hung himself just over a year ago. As a result, everything in Liam’s life is easy come, easy... [more]
Dreamers Required: Supporting Those With The Dreams…
Wednesday, 27 March 2013
As the new boy at Frontier Youth Trust I have had the privilege of meeting supporters, previous staff and those with the vision to have started FYT nearly 50 years ago. Recently at our StreetSpace Gathering we discussed the need to “re-visit... [more]
Out4Good Helps Bring Freedom To A Young Person
Wednesday, 23 January 2013
Look out of the window at the snow on the ground, frost in the air and a temperature of -3c. Now consider living in a caravan on a farm with no heating. Would you drink to keep warm? Would you drink to forget? Or would you drink just because there... [more]
Want a Workshop?
Thursday, 17 January 2013
Would you like to do something to support young people who are struggling with unemployment? Don’t know what to do? Why not invite us to coordinate a workshop in your area? Since publishing the One in a Million report, we have been... [more]
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About us
FYT: mission with young people at risk
Frontier Youth Trust (FYT) is working with young people at risk towards justice, equality and community; we are a Christian network dedicated to helping young people and communities experience life in all its it fullness. We work directly with young people at risk, resource youth workers through training and publications, and give a voice to those on the margins. We do all this so that young people on the margins can feel and experience God.
CEO's corner
Supporting The People With The Dreams
An influential Bishop and Cricketer who is part of FYT's founding story, David Sheppard, once said of FYT, "we must support the people with the dreams". It is an enduring call to youth work.’
Recently FYT has been thinking about ways to support the dreamers. Those who are dreaming of new ways to engage young people at the edge through StreetSpace; those dreaming of ways to help the church make a difference to unemployed young people; and dreaming of a way to support young people as they seek to reduce their offending among so many other dreams.
Alastair Jones (CEO Frontier Youth Trust)