Residential Guide - Introduction

Residentials can be a great event for any youth group, almost any young person who has had an experience of a youth group residential will be able to excitedly repeat the events that took place, events the leaders were aware of and the ones they weren't.

Residentials can provide a good chance to take a group away from the business of school and college and allow a weekend for them to develop those friendships within the group, a weekend for the leaders to develop their relationships with young people and a weekend away provides a chance to focus on a broader faith topic, allowing more chances for young people to be challenged about their walk with God.

However unless a residential is well planned it can go horribly wrong...there might not be enough food, the site might actually be no where near where you expect, the young people might get bored...the list goes on...

For this reason we have put together this area of the website, it is designed to give you ideas for budgeting and planning, alongside helping you think about promoting it. We have provided some mock-up leaflets, forms and medical forms which have actually been used by myself to run successful youth group weekends away. We have also put together a rough guide to budgeting and some ideas of activities for you, we hope this section helps you.

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Why do a residential? | Budgeting your residential | Booking a site | Planning the timetable | Promoting the event