Youth Team
Supporting and enriching Birmingham's young people
Working in schools and out
Birmingham City Mission's Youth Team exists to serve, support and enrich the young people of the city, through serving their needs and teaching them the Christian message. We aim to provide engaging,interactive and thought-provoking learning experiences for them through working in Birmingham's secondary schools, partnering with and serving local churches and running residentials and youth events. During term-time, we focus heavily on schools work and outside of school we run camps and events.
For churches, if you would like to get involved in serving your local secondary school fill in our church enquiry form here.
For schools, if you would like to make a booking, apply for an assembly here.
For lessons, clubs and other visits please email youthteam@birminghamcitymission.co.uk
Free provision for schools
The Youth Team and local church partners offer free-of-charge provision to all secondary schools in Birmingham and the wider area for Years 7 to 13. We visit mainstream schools and alternative education centres. These include SEND schools and SEND hubs. We seek to educate and inform students about Christian beliefs and practices. We offer PD assemblies, RE lessons, enrichment days, extra-curricular clubs and the GSUS Live programme. We can come out to schools for a stand-alone visit or a series of visits within a week. We do this alongside local church partners and our material adheres to ‘Faith Makes a Difference’ (Birmingham Agreed RE Syllabus, 2022) and covers SMSC and British Values requirements, as well as the Jubilee Centre for Character Development principles.
Assemblies
We offer short, 10 to 12-minute-long visual year group assemblies on key universal themes and values. These cover personal development. They are values-based as well as covering the beliefs of the main Christian festivals, but the exact balance between these can be flexible. The assemblies are delivered by practising Christians but are inclusive and collective in nature. Please complete our form to apply for assemblies throughout the year - click here. We can make one or several visits to a school during a week to cover all year groups or houses for form or assembly time during:
Autumn 1st half and all year round
We typically cover the topics of: ‘Healthy Relationships: Sacrificial Love’; ‘Overcoming: Resilience’; ‘Love Your Neighbour’; ‘Sharing and Being Generous’ and ‘Identity: A Healthy View of Self and Others.’ Here is an excerpt from our ‘Healthy Relationships’ presentation to give you a taste of what we can offer.
Advent and Christmas
Our Advent and Christmas assemblies are chiefly offered during late November and throughout December but can be delivered throughout the year. They are based upon the universal values of Peace, Giving, Serving, Humility, Waiting, Belonging and Inclusion. Here is the full video for our 2025 assembly on the theme of 'Peace on Earth'; and an excerpt of our Christmas 2024 video.
March to April onwards
Schools can book this in the three weeks leading up to Easter, and after Easter as well.
These presentations, which cover the Easter story, are based upon associated themes of Self-Control, Sacrifice, Love, Hope, New Beginnings, and the importance of giving and receiving help and support through difficult times. Here is an extract from our Easter video 2026 and the whole video for Easter 2025.
Lessons and clubs
Our Religious Studies lessons covertopics relating to Christian beliefs and practice (for KS3, KS4 & KS5),including A Level units and GCSE: Key Christian Beliefs, Teachings and Practice(such as Prayer, Bible, Sacraments and Worship); Denominations; The Person andLife, Death and Resurrection of Jesus Christ; Good and Evil; Christmas andEaster. We also offer off-timetable, themed enrichment days.
We offer extra-curricular clubs, whichcan be pastoral 'Friendship Clubs’, discussion-based clubs (looking at everydayissues and life themes) and Religious Education clubs.
GSUS Live
GSUS Live is an interactive high-tech learning experience designed to explore relevant issues from different perspectives through thestories of three teenagers. BCM offers this resource to Birmingham secondaryschools every April, May or June.
Youth camp
Our annual summer youth camp is open to Years 6 to 11. It is a 4-day-long residential trip to a rural centre centre in Worcestershire, and is primarily for disadvantaged young people.
Fulfil youth event
Fulfil is a termly youth event for 11-18s seeking to bring together young people for a fun evening of Bible input, live music, entertainment, and games. Churches and other groups bring their young people to the events held each March, July and November at Trinity Christian Centre in Small Heath. More about the latest Fulfil
Testimonials
'There's a great variety of backgrounds and cultures coming to the club. They all value the chance to ask questions and share their views as we look at the Bible together.' Teacher, Kings Norton Girls' School
'The assemblies were really engaging. It is great to hear the students go 'Yes!' when they find out it is BCM running the assembly. Thank you for sharing the Christian message of Easter, something that can sometimes get missed, but also doing it so respectfully of all faiths means it is an inclusive assembly.' Teacher, a Core Academy school
'I liked the aspect of peace, and how this is so relevant in the world today.'
'The multiple mentions of all religions and beliefs ensured that everyone was included.'
Comments from students:
'Without good assemblies I would live in some bubble... it's important to learn about what Christians believe and why.'
'I liked the assembly because it taught us to be kind to everyone, and I learned more about what Christians believe.'
'I enjoyed the assembly because it made me think about how I can show kindness in my everyday life.'
'The visitors helped me understand how important it is to treat everyone equally, no matter what they believe.'
'As soon as I saw it was from Christians, I wanted to switch off, but it was an important message for everyone to hear.'
Get in touch
Call 0121 766 6603 (ext 4)
or email youthteam@birminghamcitymission.co.uk
