Amaze. The Association of Christian Youth and Children's Workers

Who We Are?

Our Mission

AMAZE exists to:

• to promote and encourage positive employment practices for all those working with young people and children;
• to recruit as members all those involved in working with young people and children, particularly those working within a Christian framework;
• to provide employment and consultancy advice to those seeking to employ people to work with young people and children;
• to advance the education of those working with young people and children in matters relating to personnel, children’s legislation, insurance and good practice in youth and children’s work;
• to negotiate genuine ecumenical support from all Christian organisations for AMAZE and to promote the status, profile and training of youth and children’s workers within such organisations;
• to promote working practices which foster unity and justice in a multi-racial society, welcoming diversity of gender, disability, age, class, or on any other grounds which can be justified within its Equal Opportunities Policy.

Company Profile

AMAZE is an integrated project, serving all denominations providing employment advice, improving management structures for youth and children's workers and raising their profile within the Church.

The Jerusalem Trust have substantially funded the project, conscious of the importance of the issues that it is addressing.

AMAZE is a company limited by guarantee and is governed by the following directors.

• Nigel Argall (Community Education Lecturer at Moorlands Bible College)
• Sarah Brush (Diocesan Youth Officer, Worchester CofE Diocese)
• Stephen Bullock (Diocesan Youth Officer, Gloucester)
• Lorne Campbell (Marketing & Income Development Director, Urban Saints)
• Jon Erodotou (Children and Youth Worker at Sanderstead United Reformed Church)

Leon Coates is appointed to act on behalf of the board as Executive Officer.