SASWT Schools & Sports Projects

13/10/2026

Impact Youth is a community youth project we help to facilitate in the Ainsdale area, which aims to take the ethos and success of our secondary school Safe Spaces and shine this same light into the local community through a wonderful church partnership.
Currently meeting in the cafe/lounge and sports hall at Ainsdale Methodist Church, we transform the space once a week into a youth venue with big screens, games consoles, lights, music, chill-out space and a variety of sports.
Around half way through the evening, we provide a small meal and cake, followed by “Cake Space” – a chance where we gather all the young people together to chat over cake and drinks, build community in a fun way and discuss our ‘Rooted’ question of the week from Scripture Union.
Find out more or sign up a young person: https://f.mtr.cool/eqpcdr03pp

06/10/2026

Our lunchtime ‘Safe Spaces’ are key to our work in secondary schools, as we pop-up our gazebo setup out on the school yard, most lunchtimes speaking to over 100 students in each of the five main Southport schools who come to check in with us weekly. As Christian workers and volunteers, we aim to create a safe space for those students to explore the big issues of life and faith. We provide an opportunity for them to rate their mental health and wellbeing with our traffic light system (data which the school leadership then use to shape their pastoral care), to explore the roots of how they are feeling, and explore positive practices. We find as we embark on this journey with so many young people across our five main secondary schools, it has become a great platform for building trusted relationships, where deeper issues of life and faith are regularly discussed very naturally.
Find out more: https://f.mtr.cool/9xpj8lif7a

29/09/2026

It’s Your Move’ is an interactive, fun-packed introduction to the world of secondary school based on a resource from Scripture Union. Because we work as youth workers in secondary schools across Southport, we see it as a top priority to offer this presentation to year 6s every year to help them with their move.
We dispel some of the common worries around secondary school transition with many years of wisdom. Due to our uniquely consistent role across both stages of their school life, we reassure them with our promise to help them through the whole process, heavily promoting our secondary school Safe Spaces to explore the big issues of life and faith.
Find out more: https://f.mtr.cool/jxgl3441dc

29/09/2026

One of last week's highlights from Tabz: "We had a really good prayer meeting for the work of SASW Trust in schools and also for the efforts of local churches to provide opportunities for children and young people to respond to Jesus and grow in their faith. Having our prayer meetings every couple of months in different locations has been a great opportunity to engage increasingly more people from various ecumenical partners in our mission to the young people of this town. It was particularly encouraging to founding trustees and long term supporters so impressed by the Something Miraculous project and the stories of the way young people are engaging with churches and youth clubs. Our next prayer meeting will be 7.30pm on 9th November at Canning Road Church."

22/09/2026

Every year we produce a fresh 45-minute production from scratch for the primary schools of Southport and beyond. Our staff and volunteers tour from school to school throughout December taking the show on the road and performing up to 20 times to both Key Stage 1 and 2. From Frozen, to The Greatest Snowman, to superheroes, to the Lion King, to whatever other themes we’ve been able to dream up, our productions have been touring Southport & beyond since 1999!
An incredible amount of preparation work goes into each year’s show, especially given the high level of multimedia production. The last three years of productions were also adapted for full length video, professionally edited and uploaded online for everyone to watch. We are always thrilled to hear the great feedback from families who have watched it together at home. Here they are free for your viewing pleasure:
https://f.mtr.cool/96um9n0tho

22/09/2026

One of last week's highlights from Phoebe: "This week I supported Safe Space at two schools and ended up having and overhearing more conversations about church youth clubs than any given week previously. A good number of young people wanted to check that youth clubs were running again after the summer holidays and others simply mentioned in passing things that they did or didn't like about the church youth clubs they go to, or events that happened there. These conversations were a great reminder of the opportunity we have to be a safe space to explore faith. I don't know whether or not these young people usually admit to their friends that they are involved in a church youth club, but hanging out around us these conversations just happened. My prayer for the young people is that they continue to seek out places to explore faith and find transformation and life in Jesus."

18/09/2026

Our latest news for you, *|FNAME|*, from this past month -

Do you know a creative young writer living in Southport who is in Key stage 2 or 3? Tabz, Martin & Phoebe have been putting together a very special opportunity over the summer in partnership with Books Alive! which is Southport's new family literature festival, running from Saturday 24 to Saturd...

15/09/2026

Mission Impossible is our most loved & longest running production, although many of the Year 4-6 pupils who visit would describe it as more of an ‘experience’! In the last three weeks of term, leading up to Easter, we annually transform Scarisbrick New Road Baptist Church into a mock secret agent headquarters.
Find out more here: https://f.mtr.cool/lrtwj62dc2

15/09/2026

One of last week's highlights from Tabz: "It's been great visiting lots of schools around Southport to drop off flyers for the 'Something Miraculous?' creative writing competition. A few schools have invited me in to share in assemblies about the project and where the idea came from, which has been really fun to try the children out on a few creative miraculous ideas themselves and talk about the miracles of Jesus making such a difference to the world. One Year 3 child submitted her story online the evening of the same day I had visited - she was so eager to get her thoughts of unexpected wonder and greatness into the competition as soon as possible!"

10/09/2026

One of last week's highlights from Tabz: "In the middle of our first Safe Space lunchtime check-ins of the academic year, I had a great chat with a student who opened up about starting to study the Bible 'again’ - I asked her how she liked to study or if there was anything she used, and she was really happy talking in front of her mates about how she chooses a part of a gospel and reflects on it. It felt like a really brief but purposeful chat amongst the chaos - we had nearly 200 students crowded around us, as is often the case when the Year 7s discover us for the first time, yet this one conversation stood out as clear as day!"