Hello and thank you for stopping by.  This is the website for the Croydon Deanery Youth Project.  This is
  an area within the Catholic Diocese of Southwark.

  Youth ministry is an age-specific religious ministry and is the way in which a faith group, or other religious
  organization, engages with the young people who attend its place of worship, or live in its community. Youth
  ministry will usually encompass one or more of the following:

           * Encouraging young people who profess a faith in Catholicism to learn more about it and become
              more involved in spiritual life.
           * Allow young people who have an interest in learning more about Catholicism an environment to learn.
           * Providing open youth clubs or other activities for the common good of the young people, sometimes
              without an overtly religious agenda.

  As well as organizing events and activities, youth ministry will usually include some form of religious
  education and a pastoral oversight of the young people.

The aim of this website is that it becomes a resource for all those who are working within youth ministry.  To help with planning session, the policies and procedures that should be adhered to, as well as offering support and prayers for each other through the chat board.  This website will also keep you in touch with other events happening within the local area that young people might be interested in.  CDYP also creates opportunities for young people to come together on a larger scale, and to develop a sense of identity of being a Catholic in the wider Catholic community and the community at large.

If there is something you feel is missing from the website please contact me by clicking here.

This website is full of activities that are happening within Croydon Deanery. 

click the thumbnail to see the area Croydon Deanery covers.