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If your child is in school years 7-13, we would love you to sign them up for the event.  Get ready for a whole day of fun, faith-building, and meeting new friends!

£25 per young person.  The cost of the event includes social action activities, a meal and a snack, and some merchandise.

The event takes place from 10:00 to 17:30 in October, with an evening celebration event from 16:00 to 17:30.

Host a project

Each year we have around 16 projects which are run and organised by churches, local organisations, councils, schools and individuals. 

Project hosts usually organise up to 4 days of activities in the afternoons each day of the event, these range from social action in the community; (painting, gardening, litter picking, visual improvements) or interacting with the public (messy church, holiday clubs, drop and play sports, family drop in sessions or giving away free food) or evangelism (praying for people on the street, engaging in conversation, prophecy etc).  The aim of projects is to provide a mission opportunity for your church/organisation in your community and for the Hope MK team to have the chance to serve and spread hope, love and joy through their actions.

The best projects are those that are planned early that help meet the needs of the specific community and that have varied tasks for the young people to get stuck into.  Teams attend the same project each day, so you’ll really get to know them.  In some cases we can accommodate projects less than 4 days long, especially if we can pair up multiple 1 or 2 day projects, so if hosting for 4 days seems like too much but you'd be keen to host a project for 1 or 2 days please do get in touch anyway.

On the whole each project is funded by the church/organisation hosting it and is covered by their liability insurance.  However, in some circumstances we are able to cover some costs or provide equipment if you let us know well in advance.

Download the pdf project planning pack for a rough guide, and more info about hosting a project.  All projects must complete a project planning form and risk assessment which is at the end of the project planning pack.

Pray for us

We believe prayer makes a difference because God hears us and gives good gifts to those who follow Him.  If you are a believer we’d love you to pray for us, the people, the preparations and the event.  As the event gets nearer there will be a list here of things we’d love prayer for.

Donate to HOPE MK

Hope Mk relies on donations from churches, local grants and individuals to help subsidise the cost of the event to young people and adult volunteers.   If you are able to make a donation towards the cost of the event we have given an idea of how much specific items cost below.

• £5 could provide one person’s goodie bag

• £12 could provide a young person’s first Bible

• £55 could cover the cost of one attendees ticket

• £100 could cover one local guest speaker

• £200 could provide 4 days of refreshments for adult volunteers

• £300 could cover one national guest speaker

• £500 could provide one evening meal to all attendees

• £600 could provide one lunch to all attendees

• £1300 could provide our last night celebration rewarding the young people for all their hard work

• £2500 could provide transport for everyone to and from projects

• £3700 could cover the cost of all the hoodies and t shirts for attendees

You can make any donation in one of three ways:

- Online (via a stewardship account or card payment) through trusted site give.net who claim gift aid back on our behalf.

- Cheque made payable to ‘Bridgebuilder Trust’ who manage our finances, ensure any cheques have 'Hope Mk' clearly marked on the back so that they are allocated to the correct fund. 

- BACS payment/bank transfer to our Bridgebuilder bank account, with a reference of 'Hope MK'.

Hope MK is a designated account within the accounts of MK Bridgebuilder Trust and any donations need to be clearly marked so that they can be allocated correctly to Hope MK.  If your donations are eligible for claim gift aid and have not yet completed a gift aid declaration, please ask for one so that we can claim back an additional 25p from the government in every £1 you've given.

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