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Recent Events - Youth Groups' visit to Chellington

September 2009: The youth groups, FNF & Edge, have spent another weekend away this year at the Chellington residential centre. Here's a little flavour of what happened at Chellington 08...

Chellington centre The Chellington centre is housed in a converted church building.

The topic this year was 'Fair Trade'. There was an assortment of source material to work from, such as this Fair Trade board game.

Board game

Studying

The plan was that three groups would each make a presentation to the rest on Sunday. Here they are studying a video.


And another group watching a Powerpoint presentation.

Powerpoint

Concentration

This required a good deal of concentration....


... and plenty of preparation.

Preparation

Meal time

When it came to meal times......


... everyone had to help with the chores.

Washing up

Walking

It wasn't all work. There was time for other activities like going for a walk.....


... and a barbecue round the camp fire.

Barbecue

First presentation

Here's a screen from the first presentation.


The second presentation was about fair trade in clothing.

Fair trade in clothing

Fair trade in chocolate

The third presentation was about fair trade chocolate.


The stern judges were Mary and Les. Is Mary paying attention?

The judges

Some of the leaders

Lots of thanks to the leaders - some of whom are in this picture, Judith, Mary and Stephen.


And well done to everyone who went this year.

Gang shot

Pictures: Mary Deller and Judith Ebdon.