Big UNite - More Info Coming soon

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 run around 16 projects 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 Unite team to serve and spread hope, love, and joy through their actions.

The best projects are planned early, meet the needs of the specific community, and offer varied tasks for 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.

Overall, each project is funded by the church/organisation hosting it and covered by their liability insurance.  However, in some circumstances, we can 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 are 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 Unite

Unite relies on donations from churches, local grants and individuals to help subsidise the cost of the event for young people and adult volunteers.   If you can donate towards the cost of the event, we have given an idea of what 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 attendee’s 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 the trusted site give.net, which claims Gift Aid back on our behalf.

- Cheque made payable to ‘Bridgebuilder Trust ’, which manages our finances and ensures 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 donations must be clearly marked so they can be allocated correctly to Hope MK.  If your donations are eligible for Gift Aid and you haven't yet completed a Gift Aid declaration, please ask for one so we can claim an additional 25p from the government for every £1 you've given.

(clicking donate opens a new window to trusted third party giving site give.net)