schoolswork.co.uk is a collaboration of schools and youth workers across the UK who regularly step into the world of education to offer their services and support. With the role of faith and spirituality in education changing, schoolswork.co.uk is passionate about facilitating a new and dynamic response to these challenges, developing and deepening the skills of Christians visiting schools, and fostering a new vision for the church’s contribution to education.

We launched in November 2007, but the real story began several years earlier. A group of youth and schools workers met for a conference in 2006 organised by a group from LCET (The Luton Churches Education Trust). From that conference, it became clear that not only were there a lot of Christian visiting schools, but that we shared a lot of the same challenges as well as opportunities. An idea began to form to find a way to connect us all, and to continue this conversation.

Schoolswork.co.uk was the result, and not only is it continuing that conversation through the website, and developing new and ground breaking resources, it is now also about developing a qualification and training days for schools workers.

Our plan is to enable the organisation to stand on its own feet as a charity in the future. An advisory group, with representatives from many of the key organisations involved in Christian schools work around the UK, meets to give guidance and advice, and to make sure the project stays on track.