Youth 2000's Fund-Raising Black Tie Summer Ball

To include drinks reception, 3-course dinner, private DJ & dancing, raffle ticket prizes to be won, the legendary Youth 2000 talent auction & prizes for the best dressed table of the evening!



Date: Saturday, 24 July 2010
Time: 18:30 - 23:30
Location: Thistle Hotel, Bryanston Street, Marble Arch, London W1H 7EH

Drinks Reception within Albert Suite from 6.30pm
Dinner: 3-course meal within the Hyde Park Suite from 8pm (included in ticket price)

Ticket Price:Only £60.00

How to pay: Please post cheque's made payable to 'Youth 2000' to the Youth 2000 National Office, 36 Nightingale Square, Balham, SW12 8QN

Please state any dietary requirements and include your email address so that we can confirm receipt.
If you would like to reserve a private table for ten of your friends, then please let us know ASAP as there is a only a max capacity for 22 tables of 10 people!

Contact Details: Youth 2000 Office:info@youth2000.org or 02086752743 OR Janet Joseph janetjoseph14@aol.com or 07872 611 103

Please invite your family, friends, colleagues & parish community. Every penny raised will go directly to the work of evangelisation for the young people in the UK!
This fund-raising event is particularly to raise the £80,000 needed to run the National Youth Prayer Festival this summer, 26-30 August 2010.

Update from Youth 2000 HQ

Hello readers,

Hopefully you all received the latest update email about the new London leadership team. Noel, Janet, Daniel, Hannah, Laura and myself Lanie are the members of this team we're having fun working together and the plans for Walsingham are in motion and we're excited about this years festival!

Our publicity campaign is well underway! Including posters in 4 train stations around the country. These can be found in Waterloo, London Victoria, Manchester Piccadilly and Leicester BR. If you happen to pass one or want to go on the hunt for one please send us a picture of you with it, maybe you and some friends could pose with it, perhaps you have a Youth 2000 t-shirt and could have a picture taken of you wearing the t-shirt with the poster, we want to see you and the posters. Wacky, interesting, original, silly faces, whatever it may be! The posters will only be in the stations until 20th June so be quick, send in your photo and it may be included in a future blog! Daniel found the one in Victoria and sent it in.

We're looking for ideas and people to help us with our fundraising for this years Walsingham prayer festival. If you have any ideas for sponsored events that the team could do or would like to do something yourself please email the National Office at info@youth2000.org.

There are still tickets available for the summer ball, if you would like to attend please see the website http://www.youth2000.org/page.asp?id=93

Check back next week for an update!

God bless you all,

Lanie

Spring is nearly here!

That's right, 20th March is the official first day of spring! I'm sure you're all looking forward to packing away the winter coats, wellies and gloves and breaking out the sunglasses, shorts and flip flops!

Hopefully you've spotted a few new born lambs and have seen the daffodils breaking through the soil to say hello to the sun.

Here at Youth 2000 HQ we've got a few events to look forward to in the next few months and we hope you'll be able to join us at one or two of them.

First up is the next formation day. This will be happening at 2 Calbourne Road, Balham on 27th March. The day starts with 10am Mass at Holy Ghost, Balham. Please contact Lanie at the national office for more information (info@youth2000.org).

Next month we've got healing@healing, the retreat is taking place at St Benedict's School, Ealing. The dates for this retreat are 23rd - 25th April. The programme and parental consent forms are available on the website www.youth2000.org.

24th July is the date for the Youth 2000 Summer Fundraising Ball. The venue is Thistle Hotel, Marble Arch, London. There will be a drinks reception from 6:30pm and a three course meal will be served at 8:30pm. Ticket price is £60 per person, please send cheques for payment to the national office, with your name, email address for confirmation and whether or not you are vegitarian. More information can be found on the facebook group page under events. This event is primarily to help raise funds for the Walsingham prayer festival...

Which will be taking place 26th - 30th August. Walsingham is our biggest event of the year, held in a couple of fields at the site of the National Shrine to Our Lady. We will be expecting over 1000 young people! It's going to be great and you should definitely be there!

If you haven't already found it we've set up a fan page on facebook, simply search for Youth 2000 fans or click on the link on the right hand side of the blog. It's a great place to put photos from retreats, find friends and share your experience of Youth 2000.

If you have any questions please don't hesitate to contact the office.

Have a great weekend!

Happy New Year!

Happy New Year! As usual we saw the New Year in at our annual Balham retreat. We welcomed over 200 people to the retreat including people from Scotland, Leeds, the Midlands, and London. We had some great speakers including Fr Emmanuel (CFR), Dr Danelia Cardona, Fr Julian Green, Fr Stephen Wang and Sr Jacinta (CFR). It was wonderful to see so many people choosing to spend the new year at a retreat, we had a great time and hope that those of you that attended did too!

The next retreat is just around the corner. We'll be heading to Harrogate for the weekend of 19th - 21st February. The retreat is being held at St John Fisher's High school. It would be great to see there! More details will be on the website next week along with the programme and parental consent forms.

devotion@balham

Catholic?
In your late teens/twenties?
Want to feel 10 out of 10 for 2010?

New year celebrations can be such an anticlimax. But if you’re looking for an alternative celebration this year, then devotion@balham could be right up your street.

During this special new year event, you can see the new year in with God, make new friends and start 2010 as you mean to go on.

Entry to this event for young adults is free if it’s your first time, so don’t worry if all your money is gone by Christmas. It’s taking place at the Holy Ghost church in Balham, with places to sleep nearby.

For more information or directions, visit www.youth2000.org, call 01937 584 451 or find details through Facebook.

rejuvenation@Carmarthen

Hi all!

Just wanted to let you know about the upcoming retreat this weekend, 30th October - 1st November.

The retreat is taking place at St Mary’s Retreat in Carmarthen, South Wales. It'll include a range of talks, life-changing services and time for quiet prayer. This event is pay-what-you-can, so it won't break the bank.

For more info go to www.youth2000.org or email me at info@youth2000.org

Hope to see you all there!

GB,
Lanie Hallett

Next formation day

Formation Days

We ask you to pray for all the young leaders who served at the Walsingham festival. We held a formation day in the run-up to Walsingham to which all the volunteers were invited. It was a fantastic opportunity to plan and prepare together for Walsingham, and it really built up excitement! Two more formation days are planned to take place in London before the end of the year – these days are proving exciting times of fellowship and growth in the faith, where young leaders have the opportunity to develop skills needed at retreats and to build real friendships.

The next one is taking place on 21st November, put it in your diaries! More details will be available soon. Contact the office for more information.