The story of Rise:61 began with a group of young Christians moving on to the estate in 2009 and living together in a\u00a0‘community’ house\u00a0on Winding Way in partnership with St. Michael\u2019s Church. We dreamt up creative ways to love our neighbours and threw some great parties!<\/p>\n
We decided to focus on helping local\u00a0young people\u00a0and got to know them by playing football every Tuesday evening at the local sports ‘compound’. After a year a regular group of young people started attending and the local council began to support our efforts by providing hot drinks at the end of sessions and by helping us take the young people on weekends away. We also worked alongside a local single mum who was running a brilliant girls group and needed some extra help.<\/p>\n
Realising the need for more activities we launched a youth group on Friday nights which was attended by over 40 young people a week at St. Michael\u2019s Community Centre. Whilst the youth group was in many ways a great success, we were left feeling that we were just scratching the surface. We wanted to spend less time on behaviour management and more time really supporting the young people who attended. Therefore our little team from across the community started dreaming of what was possible and visited projects in Bradford and Oxford to learn more and get inspired.<\/p>\n
We came to the realisation that if we really wanted to meet the needs young people were facing we needed to create a sustainable platform that could support young people in the long term. Therefore, we set up a\u00a0youth charity\u00a0so we could devote more resources and time to helping the young people in our community. Rise:61\u00a0was born in Aug 2014 with a \u00a3300 donation in the bank and a passion to see this community thrive.<\/p>\n
Rise:61\u2019s name comes from Isaiah 61 which talks about how a generation will rise up from the challenges they face to become pillars of their community who restore, renew and rebuild their communities through the power and love of Jesus.<\/p>\n
They will be called oaks of righteousness, Isaiah 61:3-4<\/strong><\/p>\n We believe in championing a generation who will help others succeed in years to come. Our dream is to see Bemerton Heath become a creative hub where young people grow and flourish, a place that is a blessing to the city of Salisbury.<\/p>\n We believe in Bemerton Heath and are proud to call it home.<\/p>\n <\/p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_5″ _builder_version=”3.0.47″][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" our storyThe story of Rise:61 began with a group of young Christians moving on to the estate in 2009 and living together in a\u00a0‘community’ house\u00a0on Winding Way in partnership with St. Michael\u2019s Church. We dreamt up creative ways to love our neighbours and threw some great parties! We decided to focus on helping local\u00a0young people\u00a0and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":100,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"yoast_head":"\n
\u00a0 \u00a0a planting of the Lord
\u00a0 \u00a0for the display of his splendour.
They will rebuild the ancient ruins
\u00a0 \u00a0and restore the places long devastated;
they will renew the ruined cities
\u00a0 \u00a0that have been devastated for generations.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n